I guess you do not know the problem: My kids come home from school and want an iPod – I want them to use a Zune as I am convinced that iTunes is one of the worst software I have ever seen (besides RealPlayer), I hate the lock-in into the store and the iPod user interface sucks. As I say – that’s my personal view. However, I have to admit I lost this fight regarding the iPod.

Now at school my son is one of the few not having a phone – yet. And interestingly it seems that nobody has a problem to pay the price of the iPhone (for kids…). Yesterday I got my Windows Phone 7 and my son was looking at it. He turned around and said: “Wow, this is way cooler than any iPhone”. He just got one step closer to a phone

It might be time to sell your old phone and buy a real one, one which you can hold the way you want and it works. It is really cool!

Roger

We all know that Windows XP is rock-solid but not capable anymore to defend against today’s attacks and the same is true for IE6. Having been great products, when they were launched, the threat landscape changed significantly since then.

Windows 7 has a great potential to help customers now move away from Windows XP and so has IE8 (or IE9) for IE6.

I just read this article: Home Office does u-turn on Internet Explorer 6. This outstanding news and I am looking forward seeing more governments following the UK’s path

Roger

A quick one: An interesting download location:

With the SDL Quick Security References (QSR), the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team introduces a series of basic guidance papers designed to address common vulnerabilities from the perspective of multiple business roles - business decision maker, architect, developer, and tester/QA. These papers will help you address a critical business problem now while moving you toward SDL adoption in the future.

You can find them here.

Roger

I will be at the ISF Congress in Monte Carlo from tomorrow on. If you are there as well and want to meet, drop me a mail

It is actually the first event since a long time I am just going to participate, not to hold any speeches

Roger

It is kind of strange, whenever I talk to governments and customers, everybody seems to agree that basic malware protection should be for free or even integrated into the OS. I am talking about malware, which is “installed” by the user as well…

However, it seems that not everybody is happy… Security firms blast Microsoft for free antivirus offer

Roger