Why is Microsoft (MSFT) so concerned about Google? (GOOG) Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google’s search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history–Microsoft Windows. (Just Google’s search business–that doesn’t even include AdSense).

Before we go to the numbers, a few important observations.

• Both products are natural monopolies. Google’s share of the search market should continue to approach Microsoft’s share of the operating system market (90%+)
• Both products are wildly, fantastically profitable. Microsoft’s Windows business has operating margins of 75%-plus. So does Google’s search business (once you factor out the billions Google is spending on products that produce zero revenue).
• Google natural monopoly is growing a lot faster than Microsoft’s. Google’s search business should be bigger than Microsoft’s Windows business by early next year (at the latest). Google is also growing faster than Microsoft’s two monopolies combined–Windows and Office. Google has yet to develop a second huge, fantastically profitable monopoly–the Office equivalent–but AdSense is getting there.

Read the full article Source: Silicon Alley Insider

WordPress 2.3.3 is available.

There has been some security flaws and other bugs that are addressed in this new version.

WordPress Development Team:

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.

More info here.

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There has been a little hype for the last couple of days regarding a supposedly leaked version of Windows 7 Milestone 1, the nest version of Windows that will replace Windows Vista in the future.

A few monts ago i read about a demonstration of the new Kernel of Windows 7. It is called MinWin and you can read about it and see a video showing it here.

According to a Neowin user, he or she tried it and posted this:

[Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build…. but disappointed.

One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however.

On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.

Oh well, so there’s nothing to show...

The build is 6.1.6519.

The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don’t know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot]….

If you are interested you can read more details and all the discusion here.

I already downloaded an ISO image file of this build but i haven’t tried it yet.

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released. Version 2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs, including one security ulnerability. If you want to read the details, Peter Westwood, a developer from WordPress has made a post explaining all the internals.

I will be backing up (as i always do and recommend) this site’s files and databases so i can test version 2.3.1 locally before going online.

I will post when i finish upgrading this site along with any other details/notes on how the upgrade went as this is the first time i will make a WordPress upgrade to my site.

If you own a WordPress blog, read the below link for instructions to make the upgrade.

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Microsoft Live Labs has released a tech preview of Listas, a site where you can create and share all kinds of lists. Be it bookmarks, to-do lists, notes and more…

They also have a community-shared list so you can share your lists with the world as well as be able to read the lists from others. The lists has tags so they can be easy to find.

In the link below you can read the full description and access the Listas website where you can sign up.

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