Archive for 'Windows'
I am out of the matrix
Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo. Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix. At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at [...]
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The Odds Are Increasing That Microsoft’s Business Will Collapse
Posted on 26. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
As scary as this may sound, I kind of have the same opinion. Microsoft is simply trying hard to cash in on their successes. I do not see major innovation coming from them. They may have a huge research & development, but most of the new technologies are coming from Apple and Google. Apple is [...]
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World’s nastiest trojan fools AV software
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per cent of [...]
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PC Invader Costs Kentucky County $415,000
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Increasingly Windows users are seeing attacks that are more sophisticated and using techniques unheard before. These attacks continuously point out to a single aspect of windows. And they say it out LOUD. Windows is NOT secure. Period. Then why don’t people get it? PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers [...]
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Hot! - London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When massive infrastructure relies on non-linux/non-unix, this should be expected. Although windows is good for quick upstart, major infrastructure simply cannot rely on it. Here’s what computerworld wrote: Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the [...]
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The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
Yet another Microsoft Issue that is often hidden from those who purchase Microsoft only products and infrastructure. The TCO is not only upfront investment. It should also be lost productivity, time and money is cleaning someone else’s mess. “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total Cost [...]
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First Electronic Quantum Processor Created
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
I’ve been always fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking quantum computing and artificial intelligence in everyday computing. It won’t be far that the face of major computing will change to artificial intelligence doing quite a lot of things around us. This the one of the early steps towards that: A team led by Yale University researchers has [...]
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German Foreign Ministry: Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
According to German Foreign ministry: ‘Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest’ Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry. Schuster was one of the participants in a [...]
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Non-biological Computer Viruses for a species known as windows
Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
How true, According to SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman: To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. It surprises me that the number of viruses/malware for windows is in such HUGE numbers. And they are on serious rise! In 2007 Symantec [...]