Why does Microsoft push unpatched software via Windows Update?
It is, for a change, a very good question from CNet. If you know that security vulnerabilities exist in your software, and you’ve already patched those vulnerabilities, and you have a well-documented process for slipstreaming patches into existing installs, and you have an automatic update process…
… why in the hell would you have that automated [...]
Google opens the Cloud
Google App Engine appears to be Google’s answer to Amazon’s web services—a simple, highly scalable development and deployment platform for web apps that need to scale. It’s an interesting offering that takes a slightly different tack from Amazon, with the requirement to build an app as a fully integrated stack (not to mention, the application [...]
