All you need to do is ask Intel. They recently posted an 875% (that’s right, eight hundred and seventy five) net income above last year. This begs the question….how the hell did they do it in such a terrible economy?
Funny enough, that article doesn’t say a word about it. It alludes to Intel’s Atom processor (used in netbooks and such) in part of that but nothing else. Still, that makes you wonder where all this money came from.
On the MS front, YASH (Yet Another Security Hole) was discovered.
“The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 6, IE 7, and IE 8 on Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP, Server 2003, Server 2008 R2, as well as IE 6 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4″
That’s right folks, Windows 7 and the absolute latest IE8. Funny how in this recent marketing fiasco that MS curiously left out ‘now more secure than ever’ in their top 10 reasons to buy it. From the Vista “Protect What matters” Page, MS still lists security as a prime feature.
“For many of us, when it comes to thinking about PC protection we think about two things: protecting the stuff on the PC and protecting the people who use the PC. Windows Vista helps with both.”
See MS can learn. They decidedly did NOT put ‘more secure’ on the Windows 7 page. And surprise surprise, a new vulnerability pops up. Go figure. All the more reason to switch to FireFox or Chrome.
I’ll be sticking with Ubuntu for a while and avoid the whole mess 
