I just happen to check the opinion of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Ziff Davis Internet Senior Editor on five reasons NOT to use Linux.
The article is really interesting, especially the way the author compared with Windows on the following five lines…
Finally, the much anticipated Vista aka code name Longhorn component WinFS beta1 is relased bit early than expected. WinFS is the codename for Microsoft’s next-generation relational file system for Windows.
According to Quentin Clark, from his post in WinFS team blog, this release is a big milestone and the team is in the process of building-out the next version of ADO.NET to have new features that provide a data model, object-relational mapping, and flexible query infrastructure. The team waits for all the feedback.
Despite the early release, the WinFS still won’t be part of Windows Longhorn release. According to WinFS team member Tom Rizzo, ‘the end game for WinFS stays the same which is that WinFS will be in beta when Windows Vista ship‘
Just happen to check Yahoo! 360° yesterday and surprised to see such a nice pack from Yahoo! for free for all Yahoo! users.
Yahoo! 360° is a program that allows one to blog, share a photo and/or thought either with our own friends and/or with the public. The advantage of this 360° is; we can start blogging instantly from your Yahoo! messenger itself along with it offers easy way to post anything to this area.
The only requirement is to have Yahoo! mail id. And, we don’t need to pay to get our own domain name and spend hundreads of dollars to buy a hosting package and Yahoo! 360° offers everything for free and url will be like 360.yahoo.com/your_yahoo_id.
Yahoo! 360° offers wide range of features which includes:
Blog
Create your own blog or online journal. Share thoughts, ideas, experiences, pictures
Mobile
Send text and photos from your mobile phone to your blog.
Photos
Let your friends view your Yahoo! Photos albums from your 360° blog area
Blast
Share a quick communication your friends can reply to — an idea, attitude, question, or web link
RSS
Allows 3 RSS feeds to your blog area along with many more features
Its not a joke, according to David Sheets from STLToday claims that Google overtakes Microsoft when Google unveiled two technology advances: a well-received upgrade for its desktop search tool and a formative step into text and voice messaging called Google Talk (check my blog on comparision between Google Talk and Yahoo messenger). Whether it can be joke or not, but surely we can see which monopoly overtakes other as both are no difference in playing and presenting their own content by avoiding other. But the joke can become true when one believes that lion is killed by an ant
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Google Talk is a new small yet tiny program from Google; that lets one to talk with other Gmail user(s) over the internet for free of cost. You need to use the same Gmail account user name to sigin in. As said, this tiny program offers just to talk with other GMail users with very limited basic functionality that every messenger has now a days. |
Last week, Yahoo! is also released a new Yahoo! messenger with voice , which also offers free PC-to-PC calling (even though voice chat is there for years) with great added features like photo sharing, file transfers and many more rich feature set that Google Talk does not offer. I wonder why one has to move to Google Talk when we can get everything from Yahoo! and almost everyone has Yahoo! account and used with Yahoo! messenger for years; unless Google Talk adds revolutionary features that makes users to jump to use to Google Talk instead of Yahoo! or MSN messenger!. We have to wait and see who will be the final winner in the long run; but at for sure Yahoo! has strong hold in this area along with MSN. |
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According to eWeek, Microsoft is planning to launch the final release version, RTM (Release To Manufacturing) of Visual Studio 2005 on Nov. 7 in San Francisco along with SQL Server 2005.
This is a great news for every .NET developer so that they do not need to use any BETA and/or CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases any more; and no more BETA downloads as well. I still use beta2 for majority of the .NET development. Hopefully none of the existing applications will break as it did in the case from BETA1 to BETA2 migration.
If you have any suggestions and/or feedback on any of the forth coming releases, you can always do that from MSDN Product Feedback Center
Are we going to see a new name for 
RSS (“web feeds” ?) and the rename contest seemed to be making rounds over the internet.
In a recent post from one of the IE web log, made a clear distinction between the branding of the RSS technology and the underlying technology itself. The article also said that Microsoft is adding its own functionality to RSS in the version the company is implementing in Internet Explorer 7. Because of this, its renaming of RSS is not a sign the company is trying to remake the technology for its own purposes but rather a way to make a distinction between RSS and a feature of IE.
We will wait and see for the final output of RSS name battle.
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