Tag: Apple

SaaS vs S+S : Apple’s MobileMe mail, Google’s Gmail go dark

An article on the Computerworld website triggered me due to a funny comment quoted in there. The article was about the issues both Apple and Google experienced with their services over the last week or so :

… Both services have been restored, companies claim, but continuing problems anger users

August 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc.’s MobileMe and Google Inc.’s Gmail online e-mail services suffered hours-long outages Monday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts.

Google restored service within about two and a half hours, but it took Apple approximately seven hours to restore full access to its online mail service.

Apple users first reported trouble accessing the service’s servers from their desktop mail clients around 2 p.m. Eastern time, and in the next several hours, posted several hundred messages on the MobileMe support forum about the outage. …

The comment was a big apology to Microsoft Outlook 🙂

… But Owen Schultz had one of the best takes of any user. "Dear MS Outlook," Schultz started, "I am so sorry about our breakup several year ago. I have been thinking about you a lot since then. Will you please consider taking me back? Just one more chance? I’m sorry about all the horrible things I said about you and your operating system. You were the best I ever had! MobileMe and I are finished!" …

Source: Computerworld

New Mac Messenger for OCS

The MS Exchange Blog (not the official Microsoft Exchange team blog) reports on the upcoming MAC Messenger for OCS currently in beta …

… According to Eric Swift, Senior Director of the Office Communications Group at Microsoft, they are working on a new Messenger client for Mac with a beta coming later this year.

The new Mac Messenger (Office Communicator for Mac?) may not have feature-parity with its Windows-based counterpart, but it will have peer-to-peer video and audio conferencing, rich presence, GAL search and dual sign-on. Your Mac clients will be able to integrate with your Office Communications Server 2007 as well. …

New Mac Messenger for OCS

Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest

Bink.nu posted an interesting piece published ny Symantec comparing the speed of OS pathces between Apple, Sun, HP, Red Hat and Microsoft …

… Symantec’s comprehensive security report on the malware industry from July 1 to December 31, 2007, is now available (PDF) in its 100+ page glory. While some parts of the report simply reiterate data we’re well aware of—it’s no surprise to read that the majority of malicious activity originates in the US—there’s also a great deal of new information here that we’ll examine below.

OS/software vulnerabilities

Symantec broke down information on patch development time by operating system and by the type of vulnerability encountered. Surprisingly, Microsoft had the shortest time-to-patch over both halves of 2007. In the first part of the year, Microsoft released 38 patches (two of which involved third-party applications) with an average deployment time of 18 days. From July to December, Microsoft released 22 patches with an average patch time of six days. …

Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest