Thursday, June 17, 2004 - Posts
I will be in Milan on the 8th of July, for the "Whidbey: Reloaded" meeting on Microsoft Italia (thanks to Zampatti for the invitation) and... with surprise I see now on Andrea's Blog (UGIDotNet) that for the event will be present not 1, but 2 Microsoft Program Manager of the VB.NET team, Jay Roxe and Sean Draine.
Wonderful! Please to meet you boys! 
I'm not ax expert on large network management, but this article on the Inquirer sounds like an alarm... is it really true?
Nick Farrel explains his experience on network management with Win2K3 and his conclusions are terrible: "At the moment, until a service pack is released, I can not recommend win2k3 for anything more than file and DC services. For all else, use win2k". Shocked!!
I've just finished to read this article by Daniel Miessler... he's a Microsoft MCSE and (maybe could sound strange for someone 
) he has written an article where he exposed his reasons on why he hates Internet Explorer.
In summary, these are the main reasons to abandon IE for Daniel:
- Due to the combination of ActiveX, scripting, and its integration with the Windows operating system, Internet Explorer is more vulnerable to attack than many other browsers.
- The designers of Internet Explorer have purposely turned their back on the standards designed to benefit the Internet as a whole. They have done this for years, continue to do it today, and appear to have nothing but their own interests at heart.
I agree with him that IE is not too much standard compliant and this is not good but... Ok, IE now don't have many feature that other browsers have (such as tabbed browsing, popub blockers etc.) but the next version of IE will have it.
About security, I don't think that IE is more unsecure that other browsers. I think that a "lamer" could receive spyware or similar also with Firefox or Opera... the attention of what you are doing is important (I see too many people that click Yes on every popup window that appear on the screen).
Daniel recommens to use Firefox... Ok, Firefox is a wonderful and powerful browser, maybe now the best (and fast) browser out, but absolutely I don't think that IE is a browser to drop!
I'm really happy to see that someone like Bruce Schneier thinks exactly like me about the Windows XP Service Pack 2 availability.
I've written in the past that I think is important that XP SP2 will be available to all XP User, registered or unregistered, because it's not only an improvements on the OS functionality, but expecially an improvements about security. All of us could benefit from a secure environment and Bruce says exactly what I've said some times ago: everyone is safer when we all work together for security improvements. The more unsecure the average computer on the Internet is, the more unsecure your computer is.
This is an important aspect to think about...
I've written too much comments about this arguments, now I say only to think about this. I want end this post with a wonderful Bruce phrase: put security ahead of profits!!