what was I saying yesterday: take a look at those links guys. New Windows Live services are on their way, still at beta stage and only available for now to a group of restricted users. More users will get access during the summer to Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Folders
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OK I'm trying to post now with less anger...I've been an intensive Google user for more than 2 years now, running anything possible like Blogger, Picassa, Gmail, Analytics, Adsense, and believe it or not even Google Desktop for a while in XP. Google has done a lot, an awful lot for the web and still offer the best online services ever. But this is not a reason to launch a new attack every month against Microsoft. Google can or should exist even if Microsoft still lives LOL! Jealousy is one of the worst characteristic, and the most shared one in the world. Google must understand that: they will not replace Microsoft, never. Google would actually not even exist if Microsoft, if Windows, if web browsers, weren't there. If that's money you're looking for there must be other ways. In a way it's like Google is asking Microsoft to feed them, by either complying to their stupid requests, or getting money from new fines inflicted to Microsoft in trials. Time to become an adult Google, and make your own products for a change, your own applications, your own OS may be...You've used other companies' technologies for a while now. So it's time to grow up may be, and do your own stuff without bothering Microsoft. What's the problem guys? You're afraid of Vista? Vista's better than anything ever expected. Windows live is getting better everyday (interactivity between Live Mail, Live Messenger, Live Writer)...so you're getting slowly scared. Cause you don't have the required imagination, nor the knowledge.
Afraid to be eaten by MS in the end? well that could well happen if you don't change your policies.
I used to think that Google was a great company...during the last couple of years Google brought us Gmail, Blogger, Picassa etc...brilliant web tools...but now I'm thinking, I'm even thinking of closing this blog...the reasons? Google's attitude in the context of that conflict that opposes it to Microsoft about the ability to use a third party desktop search tool in Windows Vista. In this story there are already hundreds or thousands of users, of amazed users - and I'm one of them - standing for a change on the side of Microsoft. My position: for a start I don't even understand how Microsoft, threatened by Google, already accepted to make a change in Vista via the upcoming Service Pack 1. First of all I want to say and insist: NOBODY NEEDS GOOGLE DESKTOP IN WINDOWS VISTA. ESPECIALLY THE SEARCH TOOL IS NOT NEEDED, AND I WOULD SAY: UNWANTED!!! My god the indexing and it's search tools are a major feature of Vista. they're native in Windows now and noone, not even Google has the right to touch that. Considering how poor Google Desktop search tool performs when you compare it to the native Windows tool, considering the degree of integration of this native tool in Vista, GOOGLE SHOULD JUST KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT THIS TIME! And stop trying to get involved as a backdoor in an operating system that DOES NOT BELONG TO GOOGLE, if necessary to precise. Microsoft Windows Vista is a Microsoft Product my god! Who do you think you are at Google???
Can you imagine that? Even though Microsoft already complied by stupidly promising to change things in the upcoming Service Pack one for Vista, just to please bloody Google, Google is still taking the case to court just in case!!! Just in case Microsoft wouldn't hold a promise that they never should have made in the first place. I can't believe it! I feel some kind of disgust for Google actually. I'd like to say to Google: hey down there! be able to bring us an Operating System or keep your bloody mouth shut! God am I angry! Google won't be happy until all kind of crappy third party software will be able to run in Vista, making it unstable, and not Vista nor Windows anymore. Hey Google! who do you thing will be remembered in History, you or Microsoft???
Google is just, and only a good Web Search engine, there are hundreds of other search engines available and anytime one of them could replace you in the near future. Who is standing in front of Microsoft at the moment: NOBODY! and certainly not you. People are gonna hate you for what you're trying to do to Microsoft, and you will deserve it.
links here and here.
We need a big movement of users to stand for Microsoft at this time, and to stand against Google. Now if you guys at Google feel this post does not comply with your bloody EULA, feel free to close my blog, I don't care.
adding:
not to mention that Google Desktop sidebar is shamelessly imitating Windows Sidebar using gadgets reproducing the exact design of Microsoft gadgets. A good example is the gadget featuring the CPU and RAM usage. When is too much too much?
Could the next step be to require that Microsoft removes its native indexing tool in Vista, because such an integration wouldn't be fair for poor whining competitor Google, just like others in the past ridiculously required that Windows Media Player should be removed from the OS? The EU obtained that and there's a special "N" version of Vista available at retailers' all over Europe now. How pathetic! The point, the real point for the EU, or any other private organization is to get Microsoft complying, or paying huge fines. This is not acceptable! People are blackmailing Microsoft and that must stop! Now! so my last message will be: Google! STAY AWAY FROM VISTA! STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WE DON'T NEED YOU THERE!
Just in case guys, here's a link to a copy of that post in my blog in Windows Live Space.
for those interested, pdf files relating legal stuff from Google and Microsoft available here
I just cannot believe it. As I just launched a google search with the name of my blog, deskwall.com, I found that some stupid dudes stole it to create a kind of dodgy web site at www.deskwall.com. I have nothing to do with them of course. And once again I'm upset, must do something against those guys.
updating : I unfortunately have to admit that those guys registered their domain name in early 2006, long before I started that blog.
can't really tell what happens. As you might know Yahoo Messenger comes through a web install, automatically updated each time you need it. First thing you'll notice is that even though you're not prompted to allow the installation of the Yahoo toolbar in Internet Explorer, as well as in Firefox (as .xpi extension), both get installed.
Problems appear when you think, hey, I'd like to remove a couple of these unwanted components like the toolbars, some kind of browser manager, and a so called Yahoo Install Manager. You get the message that a dll was removed from the system (didn't take a screenshot unfortunately). So far so good, just reboot, open your ad/remove program panel and see how wonderful, most entries disappeared, and the ones left in peace have their remove buttons, well... removed. Hundreds of registry entries have been deleted. That's happened to me twice. the first time I thought another program could have been responsible, one I messed up with just after I uninstalled the yahoo components. No way, the second time it was only the removal of Yahoo components that was involved. Which means that twice in a week, I've had to reinstall Windows XP Sp2 completely. Hours spent and lost because of Yahoo. No work around, nothing on their web pages. I reported the bug and the only answer I got was a redirection to help pages containing nothing. Otherwise feel free to check those links from other users complaining about the same issue:
Yahoo answers 1
Yahoo answers 2
TechSupport forum
don't know what these guys from yahoo deserve for that, but I'm extremely upset!
waiting for the beta actually, as the alpha is really too unstable. In the meantime I'm back to the 2.4 version (XP only).
first the link: here.
Note this is only XP compatible for now. A version for both XP and Vista comes soon, maybe as soon as today.
and here is just a copy of my first comments in the Comodo Forum:
"in answer to people in the 3.0 release date topic, and to the dev team, here and now:
HEY HEY PEOPLE WAKE UP! there is and there will be much more to say about 3.0 than "I'm a bit disappointed" or "what? not yet for Vista". I belong to those who were also expecting a finally Vista compatible version. But I dual-boot with XP and I can wait, I can really wait, and in the meantime I'm quite happy to have the opportunity to test this fantastic piece of software under Windows XP.
Yes, I used the word fantastic. I've been waiting for 3.0 for a while now and I never thought that it would be so advanced. IT IS INCREDIBLY ADVANCED!
First I want to mention the UI. THE UI DOES MATTER!!! And in the case of 3.0 it is absolutely beautiful, very Vista oriented, very elegant, great job guys! No doubt the next alpha or beta version working with Vista will be here soon. Doesn't matter if it's tomorrow or in 2 weeks, the software is there, and it goes far beyond anything people like me and others who were testing 2.4 a couple of months ago could ever expect. I remember Melih saying "You'll see, you'll be amazed" or something equivalent. Well I am absolutely amazed. The interface is new in every way. The firewall section, if still using a couple of features from previous versions, good ones, brings this program to a totally new dimension. Not to mention the HIPS section, but guys, I've only been using the software for half an hour and I cannot yet go into details. But don't worry I will.
sincerely, thanks to everyone in the dev team,
best regards.
ps. here we go: right-clicking the tray icon makes the minimized tab appear in the taskbar, minor bug.
hope the tray icon animation will be back soon...
will post later when I've seen more, have already allowed Firefox to use my keyboard! (lol)"
OK this software might have major bugs at the moment, but it's got an incredible potential. And Melih was honest enough to warn us in his post, in his explanations about the "alpha" considerations. Once again what I've seen shows an incredible amount of work that has already been done to produce this first release. I've used Comodo Firewall for a while now and it's harder than ever to understand how such a program can be free. My rating, and I'm not kidding, would be about 1000 USD if that new version of CFP was not, free. CFP 3.0 is like bringing both Coreforce Firewall and System Safety Monitor to a human dimension. The dev team from Comodo couldn't do a better job.
from my latest post in the MozillaZine forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=555117&highlight=
" a couple of days ago I downloaded a theme for windows XP. The file came in the form of an executable. While warnings from both Windows Defender and AVG anti-spyware appeared very quickly during the installation process, allowing to remove files as well as many bad registry entries, I found out later, as I wanted to change one of my extensions options, that an unwanted extension got installed without my knowledge. I'm quite aware that Firefox can prevent an unwanted extension only when it directly comes from a website. I find this ability from third party programs to infect Firefox extremely worrying anyway.
Here is the link to the bad download:
http: //dl2.themexp.org/files/g/themexpdl1/4/7/74.exe
The bad extension that it installs silently is called New.net Quick Search 7.48
with id {AF8637B0-18E3-44D3-86B7-55E09D9C4261}.
I found more info in these sites:
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-020511-0558-99&tabid=2
http://www.cexx.org/newnet.htm
I want to add that I've installed this malware file a second time on purpose in order to keep tracks from what it does (logs etc...), what I had not done on the first time. So this second time, Comodo Firewall was loaded and sent me an alert that the bad extension was loaded into Firefox.
Since there seems to be no way to upload files with this post here, I cannot send you screenshots, unless you tell me how.
thanks for your attention
best regards."
and adding now:
now my request is clear: it's not all just about protecting our computers, using anti-malware programs or avoiding the bad links etc...but also: HOW CAN WE ACT LEGALLY AGAINST THOSE COMPANIES hiding behind websites, and making the malware stuff? did anyone here ever worry about that or is it just business as usual? When one knows exactly who and what, like I showed in my first post here today, does Mozilla do something against the attackers. Again not from inside Firefox, but legally, with lawyers etc...I gave an example of a website who deliberately injects malware into its downloads, to infect Windows, to infect both Intermet Explorer and Firefox. From what I've seen this website has been notorious for years for making malware. All anti-spyware programs detect it; there are articles everywhere about it. SO WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE? HOW COME THAT WEBSITES LIKE THEME.XP OR NEWDOT.NET STILL EXIST? IS THERE NO AUTHORITY TO SHUT THEIR SERVERS DOWN? AND EVENTUALLY TO ARREST THESE PEOPLE? I MEAN ACTUALLY SEND THEM TO JAIL?
Don't get me wrong, I do not want to attack anyone personaly in this forum, I'm just a bit upset about this atmosphere of acceptance, these attitudes of non-response, of perpetual passiveness. Yes thinking in terms of only protecting the PC, and never attacking the malware makers is passiveness. If that was done once in a while, security software companies would sell much less of their programs...is that the real issue?
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