Well, installation wasn’t too bad. It took about 20 minutes or so. As a bonus, all of my settings seem to be intact and all of my programs continue to function properly. Even our corporate AV is working… I hope this isn’t premature, but: Good job, Microsoft.
So Vista SP2 is now available to the masses. I’ve downloaded it and am in the process of installing it. So far no problems, but it is claiming that my machine may reboot several times and the total installation time may be 1 hour or more. Here’s hoping the upgrade goes smoothly and I still have full functionality when the process completes…I’ll post my results here later today.
As noted on several discussion sites around the Internet, there seems to be a new phishing attack against Facebook users. The login page is being spoofed by several .BE and .AT domains in an attempt to steal user’s credentials. Be careful signing in to Facebook for a few days…make sure everything looks correct and your browser is showing you the real Facebook login page.
Microsoft appears set to display a new version of its search engine early next week. The boys in Redmond have been scratching their heads trying to compete with the behemoth that is Google for the past few years. Looks like this may be their latest attempt at assassination.
Sometimes I feel bad for Microsoft. They have to compete with both Google and Apple. Then I remember all the unfair things Microsoft has done to stifle competition in the past and I stop feeling bad.
After reading Michael’s earlier post about SDL, I started digging a bit deeper into Microsoft’s SDL documentation and came across this pretty cool page. I wonder if anyone has a similar page for Unix-like OSes?
