Musings of a Premier Support Technical Account Manager - All Comments

re: Exchange+Outlook+Mobile Devices+PAs+Executives=Sadness for the IT Admin

Yos Vincenzo — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:52:06 GMT

Nice blog!

re: ZOMG! The super important system is running on an evaluation version of SQL Server and it's about to expire!!!

Jeannine — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:32:58 GMT

Great title for the article . :-)

re: Which software vendor has the most reported vulnerabilities? You might be surprised....

AnthonyBennett — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:11:29 GMT

My best guess is that since 2006 we've released a LOT of new versions of all the major products (for many, 2 major releases) plus the 2003-era products are still in support lifecycle therefore we are still releasing security updates for them.

As such, it doesn't surprise me that overal we're seeing more updates being released. The more important statistic for mine is whether we are seeing less vulnerabilities/updates being released with each new major version of the product. My understanding is that this is the case, and obviously part of the value proposition of moving to the latest versions of our products :)

re: Which software vendor has the most reported vulnerabilities? You might be surprised....

Peter Forster — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:49:29 GMT

Hi,

what I found interesting is, that Microsoft is since 2006 on 3rd place. Even with all the improvements in security in their products there are not less vulnerabilities per year? Just curious....

Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine, Austria

re: Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Results Are In

AnthonyBennett — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:16:24 GMT

...and the 3rd release of the IE9 platform preview scored 83/100 (up from 55 on the last preview release) so the IE team are making great improvements on this particular benchmark.

re: Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Results Are In

AnthonyBennett — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:15:17 GMT

@Bob - The Acid tests are hardly about broad standards compliance (I won't rehash the whole debate that it is more about compensation failures) which is the point of the above testing so I don't see why anyone would expect an unrelated set of test results to be published side by side. But to your point, yes, IE has traditionally performed poorly in the Acid tests (11-12/100), however, I encourage you to review the current IE9 platform preview results where the results are already up around 55/100 and there is still a significant amount of work to go on IE9 before release!

If there's one feature I'm really happy to see got a huge amount of attention it was the JavaScript rendering engine which was definitely a looooong way behind the others when it came to rendering speed. The current IE9 platform preview is about 6 times faster and now the difference between the top 5 browsers is in the order of around 300ms which, when dealing with the web, is barely perceptable.

re: Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Results Are In

Bob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:25:18 GMT

yes, sure. yoo bad they do not list the acid test they fail miserably ever since the dawn of the metal age.