Project Aladdin & Hotmail
November 27, 2002 09:34 AM
'Towards Self-Managing, Dependable Home Networking' as Microsoft puts it. One does not know how dependable he would become on it. Read this leaked document from Microsoft Research. It's the next big thing that MS is planning, after the Tablet PC. It is a toolkit for creating a home network consisting of wireless devices talking to each other using, as you might have guessed, proprietory protocols. Well, if you liked reading that, try this - Converting Hotmail BSD Servers to Windows. Notice how they try to ape each and every feature that a Unix server provides, ending up with a heavily patched Windows server.
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1. Codey said...
Think it was Mike Magee of the Inq who once wrote a 'secure' windows box looks like a rag made from a million tatters
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