Just a quick note regarding the Financial Times’ report Monday1 about Google phasing out internal Windows client operating system usage, and Microsoft’s subsequent response2. Microsoft has retorted that Windows is indeed secure, and that the facts don’t support the assertion. Microsoft makes its defense by attacking its competitors, and highlighting a few things that Windows [...]
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March 31, 2010
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More on Client Platform Security
By Wes Kroesbergen in General, TechnologyAs I wrote the other day, anything the mind of man can make, the mind of man can break. The piece I wrote earlier was relating directly to the security of the client operating system. However, there is another aspect to consider, specifically the human factor. While an OS itself can be secure as a [...]
March 29, 2010
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On the Security of Client Platforms
By Wes Kroesbergen in Featured Articles, General, TechnologyAnything the mind of man can make, the mind of man can break. Realizing this, one needs to shift their perception of how to view client platform security. Theoretical analysis is good. However, practical application is what should define security evaluation. Which platform is more secure in practice? Anyone can justify any OS’s security. However, [...]
Tags: hacking, linux, Mac, OS X, platform, Security, Windows
October 7, 2009
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Windows 8 Won’t be 128 bit
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyThere have been a number of ‘unconfirmed’ rumours floating around in the last few days about Windows 8 being 128 bit. While certainly an exciting thought, the likelihood of it being true is almost nil. Windows 8 being 128 compatible is like Windows XP Professional x64 being 64 bit. While it ‘worked’ to an extent, [...]
Tags: IA-128, IA-64, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, x64
November 8, 2008
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Imaging Issues
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologySorry for the delay in posting. It’s been a hectic week. We ran into a few issues this past week while applying our Windows XP image to the new T400 laptops. When the computers were turned on, all the USB ports worked except one. And Windows kept complaining about a PCI driver not being installed, [...]
November 6, 2008
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Windows Vista Deployment Resources
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyAfter my post this morning about the new Windows Vista Deployment & Administration guide, I thought perhaps I should post a list of some of the resources I’ve used over the past year in my own experience with the Vista Deployment. Beside each name and link, I’ve written a brief summary of what I used [...]
Tags: Deployment, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
October 16, 2008
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The Future of Windows
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyAs we all know, information about Windows 7 Milestone 3 was recently leaked. Before we delve into Windows 7, lets first talk about Windows Vista. What went wrong with Windows Vista? Why did it meet with so much negative publicity, both before and after release? I propose that these be the reasons:
May 6, 2008
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Update on OHA Rollout Project
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyI’ve finally got the deployment process all worked out at OHA for the time being. I set WDS up (in native mode) on one of our servers. One of the first things I did was take our existing XP SP2 images, deploy them to our hardware, run the updates, and then capture those images (WIM [...]