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I’m with Scoble, these start-up web sites suck
07 September 08 04:36 PM | Brandon Live!
If you’re launching a start-up at Demo or TC50, you need to do better than any of these. If your home page links to a PDF “info sheet” you fail. Now, some of these suck for the sole reason that the start-up itself seems to be a pointless...
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Opera begins smear campaign against IE 8
29 August 08 01:07 PM | Brandon Live!
There’s an article over at everybody’s favorite internet tabloid The Register about IE 8’s decision to default to Compatibility View (that is, IE 7 emulation) for INTRAnet sites.  The article lambastes the IE team for “breaking...
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NYT says passwords, OpenID suck
10 August 08 01:23 PM | Brandon Live!
Randall Stross, the same guy who recently said Microsoft should abandon Windows, says on the NY Times site that passwords aren’t good because they’re vulnerable to spoofing attacks, and that they should be replaced by “information cards...
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Why are browser plug-ins so insecure?
10 August 08 12:59 AM | Brandon Live!
Flash and Java, I’m looking at you. You may have heard about the paper released at this week’s Black Hat conference, describing limitations in Windows’ memory protection schemes like ASLR, DEP, etc.  The paper is well-written, very detailed, and...
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NYT article says we should throw away Windows
29 June 08 06:22 PM | Brandon Live!
A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the...
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Snow Leopard = Apple’s XP SP2? It better be.
23 June 08 12:23 AM | Brandon Live!
As I read the initial details about Apple’s “Snow Leopard” release (ostensibly called OS X 10.6), I got to thinking… What do they mean that they’ve taken the focus away from new features? From Apple.com: Taking a break from...
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Good time to join Yahoo?
19 June 08 11:22 PM | Brandon Live!
If they keep losing people at this rate, you’re bound to be running the place pretty soon. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
03 June 08 05:16 PM | Brandon Live!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS...
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Two wrongs make a… start-up?
29 May 08 02:11 PM | Brandon Live!
I just read this post on the Revision3 blog from their CEO, describing a massive Denial of Service attack perpetrated against them over the Memorial Day weekend.  The attack came from a company called MediaDefender Now why would MediaDefender be...
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Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget
09 April 08 11:10 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m pleased to announce that the second tool to join the BrandonTools.com collection is now available!  It’s a new Sidebar Gadget for those who want to see what the indexer is up to and to easily control its behavior. Click here for details...
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Joe Wilcox says Vista is failing (again)
01 April 08 02:00 AM | Brandon Live!
In this morning’s article, Windows: A Monopoly Shakes, Joe Wilcox paints a grim picture for Windows. Apparently, about 90% of surveyed enterprises adopted Windows XP in 2007, and about 6.3% adopted Vista, mainly taking away from Windows 2000 adoptions...
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Windows Search 4.0 Preview release
27 March 08 09:21 PM | Brandon Live!
Today we made available the WS 4.0 preview release for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008. You can read details about WS 4.0 at the following sites: Vista Team Blog - Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview KB Article describing Windows Search...
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More on the Apple Update scandal
22 March 08 11:55 PM | Brandon Live!
Two points I want to make based on the comments my last post is receiving: 1) That post, and its title, are mainly about the outrageous ways in which people are jumping to Apple’s defense… not Apple’s action itself. 2) If your argument...
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Apple is the new Borg.
22 March 08 04:34 PM | Brandon Live!
If you haven’t heard, Apple has decided to start forcing Safari down your throat if you use iTunes, Quicktime, or any of their other Windows software. In response, lots of Apple fans have jumped to their defense. They say that users read the dialog...
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IE 8 Beta 1 is released
05 March 08 04:02 PM | Brandon Live!
I’m a huge fan of the great work the IE team is doing for this release. The first beta, targetted mainly at web developers, is now available. In addition to excellent standards support, it includes some cool new user-facing features like “Web...
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