I had the pleasure of attending a 2 day Windows Vista training session (lecture and example, not hands on) hosted here at Duke University for employees. The speaker was a fellow named Mark Minasi, and he's probably one of the best speakers I've ever seen. Since I'm a web developer, and don't really get involved in server administration, desktop support, or anything like that, most of the class didn't really interest me, and well a less dynamic speaker, I think I might've thrown myself off the balcony and plummeted to my... well, it was only the second story, so probably nothing worse than a hospital bed.
At any rate, being a University, I was surrounded by your typical anti-Microsoft crowd. Not all of them, but there were definately quite a few of them in the crowd. You know the type, the ones who think IIS is a terrible thing because of what happened in IIS 5. Never mind that IIS 6 has been incredibly reliable and secure. For what it's worth, these are probably the same people who say that Coldfusion is insecure because they remember some things that occurred back in CF 3.0 and 3.1. For example, in one section, we were talking about something that I don't remember, and someone in the back asked if the protocol was based on IIS, because god help us all of it was. As if that would REALLY matter anymore. Microsoft has seen the light about security, and I'm impressed by what I've seen with regards to Vista's security improvements. Apparently, there were some things that they tried to make even more secure, but the backlash from the beta testers was too great. For example, this whole "integrity level" concept,which meant that even adminstrators could not delete files from C:\windows\system32 and such because the integrity level of those files was 5000 (the highest) and administrators only had an integrity level of 4000. I think Vista is gonna be a good thing. I want to get it on my mom's computer as quickly as possible! For the record, I'm not one of those "pro-Microsoft" people, but I'm not anti-microsoft either. I don't like ASP, .NET, and I use a Linux server for my personal business. I even tried to use Linux as my desktop once years ago, but I gave up on that (believe it or not, primarily because I couldn't run Homesite+ on Linux!) Anyway, that is all. Rick -- I'm not certified, but I have been told that I'm certifiable... Visit http://www.opensourcecf.com today! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
