Novell is trying something different in the Linux world–it’s building compatibility with other Linux distributions. Meanwhile Microsoft continues to lure new users to Windows Vista and XP using cash deals with silver lining.By nature, open source projects encourage diverse responses to a common set of problems. When focused on a single project that can create solutions that leap ahead of the current status quo.
Thursday, Microsoft broke sales and earnings records for its second quarter of fiscal year 2008. Statements by company executives, however, did not clarify how well Windows Vista, which launched a year ago, is actually doing in the marketplace. One analyst suggests comparing Microsoft’s latest revenue figures with related numbers, such as the growth in worldwide PC shipments. The upshot, he says, appears to indicate that Vista sales are rising in relative sync with those sales – as would be expected, given most new PCs now ship with Vista installed.
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Windows Vista was hit by significantly fewer publicly disclosed security flaws in its first year than Windows XP and open source rivals in their first years, according to a report from Microsoft. The report, written by Jeff Jones, a security strategy director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, is part of Microsoft’s effort to show that its work on redesigning the security architecture and adding new security features to Vista have paid off.
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