Zeepe 7 was released today. They say it's no longer necessary to deploy “a browser on every desktop” for your Windows users to work with web applications if you use Zeepe. Gotta check it out and they'll be at the PDC.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Christoph Schittko: “I can't take the whole Trustworthy Computing thing serious at this point.” Believe me, it ain't fun to work at Microsoft when we continually have bugs found in our products. It's the discussion at every lunch and every meeting I've been in lately. Are we working on answers? Yes (with more to come).… Continue reading I can't take the whole Trustworthy Computing thing serious at this point

Saving the Browser:  Some months back I became aware of the patent US 5,838,906 and the Eolas lawsuit against Microsoft, and followed a bit of conversation on the Net related to it.  As many, I believed the the issue would quickly go away because of ample prior art.  Regrettably, this seems not to be the… Continue reading Saving the Browser

TCP 135 and the loss of end-to-end. I've never spent much time tethered to an Exchange Server, other than on an experimental basis, so I'd forgotten — or never knew — that Outlook contacts Exchange on TCP port 135. That is, of course, the same port that Blaster has lately been partying on with wild… Continue reading TCP 135 and the loss of end-to-end

Additional Outlook 2003 Monitoring Information. In Exchange 2000, there has always been the ability to add extra columns of information into the Logons object of a mailbox or public store in Exchange System Manager. There are many columns available, such as Open Attachments, Open Messages, etc. The method for adding these columns is to simply right-click… Continue reading Additional Outlook 2003 Monitoring Information

Rolling out Outlook 2003?. If you're planing to rollout Outlook 2003 (perhaps sooner than expected) you'll find lots of information about deploying, upgrading to, and maintaining this fantastic new mail client here. There are also some goodies for your toolkit. … [MS Exchange Blog]

Cheaper SSL…. Do you need to buy or renew a secure certificate now or at some point in the future… perhaps for OWA, or RPC over HTTP?… The answer will probably be yes… Well, Paul Robichaux decided that he wasn't going to be robbed (as my employer was, not too long ago) and decided to use… Continue reading Cheaper SSL…

Office 2003: Early or Not, Here It Comes. Sometimes, I get a really good chuckle out of Microsoft's marketing tactics. Last night, the company started informing analysts and reporters that Office 2003 would be released for download to volume-licensing customers and to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers, starting Monday. This has been characterized as being ahead… Continue reading Office 2003: Early or Not, Here It Comes

Dreamweaver Without Sites. One of the Dreamweaver “features” that us CFers complained loudly about was the need to define a site to be able to do anything. Unlike ColdFusion Studio which allowed you to browse an FTP or RDS connection for files, Dreamweaver required that a local site be created and that edits be made… Continue reading Dreamweaver Without Sites

John Ritter, Prolific Television Actor, Dies at 54: Emmy award-winning actor John Ritter gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of television comedies decades apart. Source: New York Times: NYT HomePage * [Archipelago]