A Clouded Vision

On security?!?

Yes it sounds weird doesn't it. All things considered, when you think security, the first word to come to you won't really be Microsoft. We all know the bashing on either Internet Explorer or their operating systems.

What most people do not know, and that's their right, is that Microsoft makes much more software than just that. Apart from their development tools, which quite frankly are really good, they make server software too. We know Windows Server and such are more secure than the standard operating systems. Now next to that, there is SQL Server. Recent studies have revealed that Microsoft SQL Server, as of version 7 (before 2000!) has always been more secure than it's greatest competitor Oracle.

I'm into server software and more specifically SQL Server software, and this amazed me. I always thought of Oracle as the Fort Knox of SQL, although obviously I and many others have been wrong. Now I know what database server I'll continue to use in the future

Good literature.

It's a pretty interesting search engine.

Today I came across this very nice search engine, built by Microsoft. It features Janina Gavankar as an interactive search assistant. In the background, the search engine is MSN Search. It's a shame the speed of the search isn't as fast as Google's and the results aren't from Google, else I'd surely use this for my searching needs.

Go here to see her in action!