Kudos to Microsoft: Visual Studio Express Tools Free Forever!

I just learned that Microsoft has decided to make the Visual Studio Express tools free forever. This to me shows Microsoft’s acknowledgment that people are not willing to invest their time learning a product that they will eventually have to pay more for then they have funds available or earmarked, especially young people. I greatly applaud …

Simple Solution to Phishing Epidemic?

Call me simplistic, but it seems to me that there is a relatively simple solution to the phishing epidemic, assuming those in control of the Internet would like to stop it.  Since almost all phishing emails using a hyperlinks something like http://www.MyBigBankName.com.bad_guys_domain.info/login.html, eliminating it would be a simple as ICANN cancelling domain registrations for anyone caught …

The Virtualization Wars Begin: Microsoft Virtual Server is Free!

It’s nice to be correct. Or at least to suggest something that Microsoft ends up doing.  :)  A few months back I suggested Microsoft give away Virtual Server, and today they are announcing just that! Good deal.  Let the virtualization wars begin! :) P.S. Now if Microsoft would just support the VMware hard disk format, …