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Blog Post: Google Chrome and Silent Patching

rhalbheer

This morning I opened one of the Swiss Sunday newspapers and Google Chrome made it to the front-page with a “best practice approach” for deploying security updates. In the article itself it was claimed that Chrome is one of the best browsers with regards to security as the deploy patches silently, without...

on 11 May 2009
Blog Post: We Need Solid and Strong Transparent Processes for the Cloud

rhalbheer

This morning I was reading an article called Google seeks to assure customers on cloud security practices on ComputerWeekly. I had to read this – obviously . It references a paper written by the Google Security Officer called Security Whitepaper: Google Apps Messaging and Collaboration Products...

on 8 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Support and OpenSource

rhalbheer

I know that I am not an OpenSource expert and to be completely clear: I do not want to complain at all but I would definitely think whether I would bet my company’s business processes on it… Let me give you my story: March this year I migrated my blog from a SharePoint based solution to an OpenSource...

on 28 Sep 2010
Blog Post: SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit moved to Codeplex

rhalbheer

Quite a while ago I blogged about the SharePoint External Collaboration Toolkit. I just wanted to make you aware that this toolkit is now moved to Codeplex and can be found here: http://cks.codeplex.com/ Roger

on 14 Oct 2009
Blog Post: Mozilla Patches Fastest. NOT!

rhalbheer

I only believe the statistics I forged myself So, once more, there is a debate on which browser is the most secure, who fixed which vulnerabilities how fast. The Secunia Report 2008 was just published and it seems that this injects once more the fire about browser security. Out Jeff Jones just posted...

on 9 Mar 2009
Blog Post: Open Source and Hackers

rhalbheer

The debate is probably as old as the Open Source software development model: Which one is more secure: Open Source or shared source as we at Microsoft run it? I know that we could now enter a religious debate about that, which I do not want to as I do not really believe in the value of such debate. ...

on 9 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Converter from Office Binary files to OpenXML

rhalbheer

We are supporting a project on SourceForge to write an OpenSource translator for Office Binary files (doc, xls, ppt) to the OpenXML specification. See the initialization here . Roger

on 17 Feb 2008