Micro$oft
Micro$oft
The Micro$oft Xbox 360 is made in Southern China.
Future Versions:
• code name Blackcomb due for 2010
- renamed "Vienna"
• Vista Release 2 (management & improving user interface)
due 2008-2009
• Vista due in 2006. (Back in 2002, Vista was due in
2004). Vista Server due in 2007.
Anti-Spyware protection will be included in Vista
The initial beta "Build 5112" of Vista was
released July 2005:
• WinFS (the new &
improved file system) has been removed & postponed
• Added security to limit
user's rights and privileges
• New desktop interface
to require updated hardware
• IE 7 included
•
tabbed browsing (already available in Opera and Firefox)
•
integrated RSS feed browsing (already available in Opera and Firefox)
•
anti-phishing protection features (already available in Opera and Firefox)
• patch for Vista beta
released January 2006
Current
Versions:
• 2007.01.30 Windows Vista Home Basic $199.99
• 2007.01.30 Windows Vista Home Premium $239.99
• 2007.01.30 Windows Vista Business $299.99
• 2007.01.30 Windows Vista Ultimate $399.99
Vista features:
• Aero user interface
•
•
• sounds by Robert
Fripp
• Windows XP SP2 (client)
• Windows Server 2003 (server)
Previous Versions:
• 2005.04 Windows Server 2003 x64
64-bit
• 2004.08 Windows XP SP2
• 2003.04 Windows Server 2003
introduction
of .NET
• 2003.03 Windows XP 64-bit Edition
• 2001 Windows XP Home Edition
• 2001.10 Windows XP Professional
built
on Windows 2000 code base, Internet Explorer 6.0
• 2000.09 Windows Millennium Edition "ME"
built
on NT code base
• 2000.02 Windows 2000 Professional
• 1998.06 Windows 98
• 1996.08 Windows NT Workstation 4.0
• 1995 Windows NT Server 3.51
• 1995.08 Windows 95
TCP/IP
stack, Internet Explorer 1.0
• 1994 Windows NT Server 3.5
• 1993.11Windows NT Workstation 3.5
• 1993.11 Windows for Workgroups 3.11
domain
networking and peer-to-peer workgroups
• 1993.07.27 Windows NT 3.1
microsoft's
first 32-bit OS
• 1992.10 Windows for Workgroups 3.1
• 1992.04 Windows 3.1
• 1990.05 Windows 3.0
• 1987 Visual Basic
• 1987.12 Windows 2.0
• 1985.11 Windows
1.0
• 1981 Shipped MS-DOS
• 1975 Microsoft founded; release BASIC compiler for
the MITS Altair
Windows Vista
2007
Windows XP 2001
Windows ME 2000
Windows 2000 2000
Windows 98 1998
Windows NT 4.0 1996
Windows 95 1995
Windows NT 3.5 1994
Code
Names:
code name release
name
Blackcomb Windows Vienna
=> Windows 7
Longhorn Windows
Vista
Whistler Windows
XP
Cairo Windows
2000
Memphis Windows
98
Chicago
Windows 95
Daytona Windows
NT 3.5
Snowball Windows
for Workgroups 3.11
Janus Windows
for Workgroups 3.1
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Using NSLOOKUP with Microsoft Windows
PuTTY - a ssh, telnet and rlogin client program
Installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
The problems
with the Microsoft Windows operating system begin with:
• A normal user, using a standard user account, runs
with many privileges that you would expect
only the "Administrator" account to
run with. As a result, when a normal user is running IE
(Internet Explorer), and happens upon a web site
with spyware or adware or a virus, the unwanted
software is able to install itself on the user's
computer.
It would make sense for Windows to only allow
someone logged in as the "Administrator" to make
changes to the registry, for instance. Any
user could unwittingly foul up the cryptic Windows system
registry by installing unwanted software from
a web site without even knowing it's happening.
With a computer running Linux or a Unix operating
system, only the "root" user (analogous to
"Administrator") can change the system's
parameters. A normal user would not have the access
rights to be able to unwittingly change configuration
files or system processes.
• A web browser is like any other program - a separate
entity from the operating system. When
Microsoft decided to make IE a part of the Windows
OS (operating system) itself, in an effort to
defeat Netscape Communications and their browser,
Microsoft shot itself in the foot, security-wise.
A web browser shouldn't be a part of the OS any
more than a word processor or computer game.
• Microsoft's file manager, Windows Explorer, runs the
same code as Internet Explorer.
• Microsoft's Outlook Express is intertwined with Internet
Explorer.
• When Microsoft Windows was first developed, before the internet, it didn't need to be secure.
Specific examples of
why Micro$oft Windows is just a horrible computer operating system:
1. When you install a server, you must choose a PDC, BDC, or member server.
Later, you can't change a BDC to a PDC, etc.
2. You use IE to visit a web site, and due to the content on the web site, you
are forced to REBOOT your computer.
The OS locks up, Task Manager is unavailable,
the mouse becomes unusable, and the only option is the power button.
3. Every so often, when you launch IE, it doesn't bring you to your home page,
but instead Microsoft's IE web page.
Microsoft in the News
The
next version of Windows is "Longhorn". The client is due
in 2006 (to replace XP), with Longhorn Server due in 2007.
After "Longhorn", the next version is code-named "Blackcomb."
Windows XP SP2 is code-named "Springboard".
At the end
of 2005:
Microsoft's market value = $280 billion
Google's market value = $128 billion
browser
wars
In 1997, 70% of the web browsers were Netscape.
October 1997 - Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.
Using organized crime tactics, Microsoft illegally crushes the competition.
(In 2003, Microsoft must pay 3/4 of a billion dollars to Netscape for these
crimes.)
date IE Firefox Netscape/Mozilla other
2004.12.03 91.80%
4.06% 2.83%
1.25%
2004.02.18 89.85% 5.69% 2.47% 1.9%
2005.04.29 88.86% 6.75% 2.23% 2.06%
Netscape Internet browser will be included inside every new
Hewlett-Packard and Compaq computer sold starting early next year.
-eWeek, October 10, 2005
date IE Firefox Netscape/Mozilla other
2007.01.31 88.7%
2007.03.31 86.0%
2007.10.31 80.1%
2007.12.31 77.7%
date IE Firefox Apple
Safari Chrome
2008.06.30 73.0% 19.0% 6.3%
2008.08.31 72.2% 19.7% 6.4% 1.0%
date IE Firefox Apple
Safari Chrome
2010.08.01 60.4% 22.9% 5.2% 7.5%
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