Month: March 2001

ZDNet: Story: .Net demystified: What you must know about MS's software scheme. This is “Hailstorm” he's talking about. Suppose, for a moment, that everything could talk to everything else. Your calendar could get information from and supply data to your documents, or your cell phone, or someone else's calendar and cell phone. Your computer's desktop… Continue reading Net demystified: What you must know about MS's software scheme

Yahoo! Groups : ms-hailstorm Messages (membership required) : By: Jacob Levy – Microsoft Passport & HailStorm. All users of the various Win32 OSes will automatically plug in to their HailStorm scheme. Scoble said something about WinMX users not being able to get on the 'net without first signing in. Of course as a side benefit… Continue reading Yahoo

iRights – March 20,2001. Some interesting commentary on “Hailstorm” The article discusses the possibility that somebody will hack this datastore because it's a tempting target. Do the basic analysis: “How hard is it to get into?” and “How tempting is the target?” Remember, security is never perfect, so this analysis is based on the idea… Continue reading March 20,2001

Another comment. There are a bunch of good ideas in HailStorm, and one very bad one. It's not open, it's not a level playing field. I ask the Internet what it wants to do and here's what I hear. “Design a spec for myHailStormServer, and make it run on inexpensive hardware. Make it lightweight and… Continue reading Scripting News

But still signifyin' – “Now the opinions about Hailstorm are flying. The whole discussion of “secret APIs” is particularly funny. I remember about two years ago, my brother and I decided we wanted to use the MSN Messenger protocol for P2P communications. It took us about 40 minutes to look through the type library and… Continue reading opinions about Hailstorm

Microsoft wants us to essentially move our lives onto its computers — financial transactions, calendars, address books, documents, you name it. This is the ultimate in centralization. Leaving aside the unreliability of the big computer systems the company now runs — think of the outages and problems with Hotmail, MSN and even Microsoft.com — the… Continue reading Microsoft wants us to essentially move our lives onto its computers

Kevin Werbach: “Microsoft today launched its Hailstorm Web services initiative. Worth watching closely, if for no other reason than that it ties together virtually every hot topic in the computer industry today: distributed computing, component software, instant messaging, online privacy, the post-PC world, user-centric interfaces, you name it.” [Scripting News]

Jabber.Org: Integration of full support for XML-RPC and SOAP. [Scripting News]

White paper: Microsoft HailStorm. “Support will also be included for integration between Windows authentication and Passport authentication of users, so that a user logged onto Windows XP will also be logged onto Passport and therefore able to receive their HailStorm services.” [Scripting News]

OnStream runs out of steam. Files for Chapter 7 [The Register] Uh oh! Have to think about my backup system.