Why the Competitive Guide between Office and OpenOffice published some days ago from Microsoft on their website (OpenOffice.pdf) seems to be disappeared? Is there a reason?
The strange thing is that if you try to search "OpenOffice" on the Microsoft site with its internal search engine, the link appears as the first item.
I'd like to signal a little curiosity I've discovered on this document... I've checked the document property of the PDF file and seems that it was created with QuarkXPress 4.11 and the .pdf generated with Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh. Curious... :)
This is one of the most interesting reading out in these days from Microsoft: Windows Server 2003 Managing System Services.
Windows Server™ 2003 family of operating systems starts some applications during system startup that are not tied to an interactive user. These applications are called services or Win32 services because they rely on the Win32 application programming interface (API) to interact with the operating system. Similar to UNIX daemons, services often implement the server side of the client/server application model. A basic understanding of service functionality, monitoring services, managing services, and troubleshooting services can improve your ability to perform diagnostic procedures to resolve service-related problems.
A great explanation of the Windows Services loaded during startup is a great thing...