Interesting Tidbits from Jeffrey Jones Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

By Don Burnett

I seem to have ruffled the feathers of a lot of Mac folks, with some statistics and suggestions that Vista was a lot more secure than Mac OS X (10.4) and Windows XP.. People are offended apparently at the number of days it took to hack a MacBook Air (two days)..

Here are some statistics from Jeffrey Jones Report. I suggest you sit down and read the entire report. You will see that this isn't political, but a fair and honest assessment. It's just tracking of the numbers of patches/vulnerabilities and what actually happened. You can download it right HERE...

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Note: This is all from Mr. Jones report and I am quoting it all here...

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I suggest you read the entire report for yourself.. Numbers are reality, and all the Mac Fanatics in the world can't change the reality of these numbers, or any amount of spin from the "Steve Meister"... This is what happened with each of these systems/platforms.. You can't argue with numbers. Take that.. Mac-vs-PC television ads..

 

Technorati Tags: Vista Security,Mac OS X,Windows XP,Vista Superiority

Silverlight on Linux

By Don Burnett

I found this little GEM on YouTube.com and just had to share this with you. The Silverlight plug-in (with .net support thanks to the Mono project) has added the power to run Silverlight applications on the desktop (not just from a Website), called Desklets..

Here's an example video of Desklets in action. This is pretty cool all in all... Also a video of the Surface technology demo running in Moonlight in Linux.

YouTube - Clock desklet

YouTube - Moonlight's sample screencast

Technorati tags: Moonlight Plug-in, Silverlight, Linux, Mono Project

Silverlight Screenshots in Linux

by Don Burnett

Here are some of the first screenshots of Silverlight running in Linux. This is quite cool to see because this project has been FLYING ALONG.. These Mono Project folks are indeed very talented and bringing great function and the best of .NET to Linux.

 

The Famous Silverlight Airlines Demo

Even Microsoft's Famous multi-touch Surface Demo runs (modified)

Video Being scaled and rotated (EARLY DEMO)

This really bodes well for people adopting XAML mark-up and developing applications and Silverlight being a truly cross-platform plug-in and a great environment for Rich Internet Applications, no matter if you are on Linux, Macintosh, or Windows.

Technorati tags: Silverlight, Linux, Mono Project, Moonlight Plug-in, Windows, .NET, .NET 3.0, web 2.0, RIA