Mehrdad's space: Computers and Internet

Online Skill Set: Microsoft Sucks! Google Rocks!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:43:48 GMT

As Steve Ballmer said at MIX'08, Microsoft is just trying to build a skill set in online business, but it's really supposed to fail! At least up to now, let's face it:
Search: Google rocks, Live search is absolutely irrelevant. Everything is best in Google.
Mail: Windows Live Hotmail features a beautiful interface, I love it more than GMail, but GMail only displays text ads, it's always responsive, light Web page (Live Hotmail: absolutely the other way around!). And when it comes to your own domain, Google is best. Windows Live Hotmail doesn't even allow you to forward you email to other mail providers and doesn't allow IMAP/POP3 access which is neccessary for use with a mail client such as iPhone or Outlook. Outlook has a connector that allows us to connect to hotmail with it, but I really hate it. It's too buggy.
Blog: Spaces is an absolute failure for Microsoft, I like the fancy drag & drop style but it IS A FAILURE.
Photos: I'm not a big fan of photo publishing, but I think Picasa wins this one too!
SkyDrive: No Google alternative. I don't like these GMail drive stuff. SkyDrive is cool. But it really needs a better upload mechanism and integration in the OS, like iDisk.
Calendar: Both are Good, but I prefer Google alternative, it's lighter, just like everything else! It also works on more browsers! I don't like to say that Windows Live doesn't render properly on IE8Beta1!
Docs: No MS alternative.

Microsoft, change the world or go home! (By Microsoft, I mean its online skill set, aka Windows Live!)
At least if you can't give us a great application, give us more services to be competetive. Google apps offers a ton of services, while MS doesn't even give us a simple POP3 on its email, and doesn't allow forwarding at all!

I HATE WINDOWS LIVE!

Ubuntu Customization

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:15:49 GMT

In the past few days, I spent a few hours customizing my Ubuntu 7.10 x64 installation. I think it's very cool now!
It's a combination of Leopard, Vista, and Ubuntu!
Take a look at the screenshot:

'Intel's newest innovation' or 'Why I love Intel!'

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:18:13 GMT

Today, I've really understood the true meaning of INNOVATION.

The new Intel technology is too interesting and too innovative and too powerful and too ... and too much for me to believe; even though I know pretty much nothing on physical aspects of processor production. 300GHz is too much frequency, really!

I really believe in this statement:

"There are no boundaries, except your imagination!"

I thought Macs don't have security flaws!

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:33:17 GMT

Look at this! I saw this on WinBeta: (I know it's too old, In fact its date is July 1st, but I haven't heard it before and I like to mention it)

Symantec has issued a warning to Mac owners about a new malware software that exploits a vulnerability in the "launchD" service. The software could let an attacker get administrator or root access on any Macintosh system running OS X version 10.4.6 or earlier. Apple released a patch in version 10.4.7 this Wednesday.

Symantec has initially called the program a trojan horse, but the code hasn't yet been seen spreading in the wild. Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition, created and released the code. Earlier this year, he also released the Inqtana worm which also targets Mac OS X.

Isn't it the same Apple that claimed no security bugs, no virus, no malware for Macs? Isn't it the same Apple that blamed Windows and didn't think about popularity (more than 700 million Windows deployments and 14 million Macs). Shame on you Apple! Shame on you! I hope I see these news more often! They totally make my day!

The Solution for DevCT's architectural problem

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:11:36 GMT

As I noted in a previous post, We had an architectural argument to choose whether to write DevCT in WPF or not. Kiarash gave me a link to an article in MSDN titled "Introduction to .NET Framework 3.0" I'd seen it before but I haven't read it. I didn't know about the new thing codenamed WPF/E. It's a subset of WPF that will run on other platforms as well! I'll definitely agree to write DevCT in WPF/E! What's your idea?