Get A Mac ads jump the shark
19 August 08 11:35 AM | Brandon Live!
These may have been kind of cute or clever in the past, misleading as they were.  But now they’re just plain obnoxious. When I bought my new car last year there was a car salesman at one dealership who only seemed concerned with what other options I was looking at.  He tried to tell me that [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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How my team and I fit into Windows 7
18 August 08 11:25 PM | Brandon Live!
As you probably heard (if you’re reading this blog), Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan recently launched the Windows 7 Engineer Team Blog. This afternoon the Steven made his second post on the blog, discussing the Windows 7 engineering organization.  He describes the rough dimensions of the various feature teams, including a pretty complete list of the [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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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.”  Well, he’s got a point here, and many companies and services already use non-password authentication mechanisms.  Microsoft uses them for [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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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 I’ve no reason to doubt that it’s pretty accurate.  Some points it makes are things that teams [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Microsoft Intern Video 2008 - The Spy
08 August 08 05:52 PM | Brandon Live!
In traditional Microsoft fashion, this year’s interns have put together a video about Microsoft… in this case, telling the story of a spy trying to find all our Win7 secrets Somebody posted the video to YouTube, which you can find here. Random trivia:  The building that this takes place in is my building, building 86.  [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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OpenSearch spec status
05 August 08 10:21 PM | Brandon Live!
In addition to the aforementioned e-mailing, I also spent a little of the weekend on some personal projects, and did some poking around at the OpenSearch discussion group.  I was curious about the fact that OpenSearch 1.1 has been stuck in “Draft 3″ status for well over a year now.  Apparently my prodding has provoked [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Home from LA
05 August 08 10:15 PM | Brandon Live!
Last week I headed down to LA to spend a long weekend with my sister and my friend Sara, both of whom live there.  I tried to remain disconnected during that time but failed pretty miserably, at least the last couple days.  I even kept up with my work e-mail most of yesterday.  I really [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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The FSF show their true colors (a bright shade of ***)
26 July 08 07:23 PM | Brandon Live!
The so-called “Free Software Foundation,” having vanquished their enemy from Redmond and having nothing better to do, is now launching a Denial of Service campaign against users of Apple’s products.  Basically they want their minions to descend upon Apple stores everywhere and harass the store employees so that they can’t help real customers. Here is my [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Who is a bigger threat to the US? Islam or Creationists?
30 June 08 04:24 AM | Brandon Live!
Earlier this evening I discovered a wonderful series of videos on YouTube (which I am convinced more than ever is a Google plot to make sure I stay up all night watching videos and don’t get any work done in the morning). It’s a series called “Why do people laugh at creationists?” and it is published [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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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 same piece. He says of Windows: Painfully visible are the [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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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 adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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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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John McCain debates himself
16 June 08 03:08 AM | Brandon Live!
Found this slightly amusing. My greatest concern with McCain is how different he is today from the man he was a year or two ago.  I feel that he’s compromised far too many of his principles, and turned the wrong direction on many issues - apparently believing that is how he will get elected.  What do [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Slate: The Democratic Party’s presidential race in 8 minutes
08 June 08 08:15 PM | Brandon Live!
 Pretty decent summary, in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or two. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Windows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
07 June 08 11:32 PM | Brandon Live!
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected.  Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just because(optional)? Maudit - Pardon my ignorance, but what the difference [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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