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"Not again! Obi-Wan's going to kill me"
Anakin Skywalker

IE8? Nice job Microsoft!

Here they come again, with their right new Internet Explorer 8. But just a few days after the great release Nils, a German Jedi hacker of the open source, has hacked the ultimate navigation tool wining the 5000$ and the laptop offered at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.

He managed to break into Microsoft's safest browser yet using a yet-unknown vulnerability a few hours after IE8 was launched as the browser was running on a Windows 7 Beta platform.

By the the contest policies, details of the vulnerabilities are kept confidential until the vendor releases a patch. They say they will work closely with the vendors to solve the problems.

Up to now, Microsoft has released a statement saying that they are investigating reports of possible vulnerabilities and actions will be taken if confirmed.

"Oh, great warrior, hmm? Wars not make one great."
Master Yoda

Windows vSHITa

I was using this shity O.S from the dark side of the source, in a friend´s computer and suddenly Internet stopped working, and when I looked at the task bar... waaaaaaah!, there was the old windows bar!! It´s hidden right under the new one!! What a piece of crap!!

"That's no moon... it's a space station."
Obi-Wan kenobi

Cut-backs at the Evil Empire force of MS

There are rumors going on about layoffs at the "Evil Empire force of Microsoft", as much as 17% of its workforce (which is a lot). It seems that they are not immune to recession and things are not going good for the strongest privative force of the Software Galaxy. The truth is that some sources from the inside pointed out that there might be a hit for a few quarters next year. They assure nothing is gonna happen in January but they also say that "anything" could be possible over the following months... certainly it seems that is not gonna be before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Vegas (Nevada), on the 15th of January, because it won't be good for them to have any bad news before it.

However these are some undeniable facts showing that things are not going really well for the Redmond giant:

• Several big customers have not renewed MS Software Assurance (SA)
  
• The whole worldwide economy is in a major slump.
• Hiring is way, way down. Except for a scattered few positions, Microsoft has almost no openings for external hires.
• One of the more likely solutions to be employed is no bonuses in 2009 reviews.
  

You can reed more about this here, written by an anonymous blogger from MS.

Only a master of evil, Darth.
Obi-Wan Kenobi