To Vista or not to Vista – a question quite some enterprises are asking these days. Mark Russinovich recently hosted a roundtable to discuss Vista deployments including its challenges with different people: Customers who have already deployed as well as Microsoft people responsible for the product. So, watch the roundtable at Spotlight

Roger

In December about 30 government advocates assembled to decide on - what they called - Open Government Data Principles. Even though the group was very US focused (if you look at the list of participants), the outcome is very interesting. I quote the main page of the working group: By embracing the eight principles, governments of the world can become more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives.
So, here are the principles

Roger

It is not new and I blogged several times on it: If you own a botnet, you can make quite some money. As the Law Enforcement is going after the bot herder I would not suggest you to enter this business, nevertheless.

I just read an article today with a pricelist for botnets. Read it yourself: Spyware authors offer dollars for downloads

Roger

Well, I do not hope and I do not expect it to. Why? Well, mobile text messages are not free – mails are (at least kind of). Nevertheless, if the "vulnerability" is within the mobile provider, all of a sudden, SMS could become a real SPAM channel. Recently happened in China: China to Probe Online Text Message Spam

Roger

Not only that it is "forced" on the clients – it seems even to crash Windows XP machines: Safari 3.1 Crashes On Windows XP, Users Complain – and now I stop complaining

Roger