KDB Systems

This is the start of  a new blog. My old blog Vistahelp.ca was too con­fin­ing. I found I wanted to write about things besides Vista. Win­dows 7 is out now. I hardly use Vista any­more. I may want to write about things that aren’t com­puter related. I’m vol­un­teer­ing for the Van­cou­ver 2010 Olympics. I’m sure I’ll have some things to say about the expe­ri­ence. I’ve copied every­thing from the old blog but from now on expect any top­ics to show up. Enjoy and if not please com­ment on why.

Last night I was on my deck watch­ing the Per­seid meteor shower. I started won­der­ing what our ances­tors must have thought about events like this. I was think­ing that they must have had all sorts of weird super­sti­tious beliefs about omens and such. Lay­ing there watch­ing the sky gave me lots of time to think. The more I thought about it I started won­der­ing what some­one sev­eral thou­sand years in the future would think about my beliefs regard­ing the meteor shower. To me they are facts that I know. I am sure that to our ances­tors their beliefs were also facts that they knew with absolute cer­tainty. This means that my facts may in fact be only a belief and not really a fact. In the future they may think that our cur­rent beliefs about space, meteor show­ers, etc. are quaint, super­sti­tious beliefs because they have dis­cov­ered some new facts.

What does all this have to do with com­put­ers? Many peo­ple have beliefs regard­ing com­put­ers that they see as facts. One exam­ple of this is the fact that OS X is more secure than Win­dows. An alter­nate fact, just as wrong, would be that Win­dows 7 is more secure than OS X. My belief about this fact is that you can’t mea­sure how secure an OS is so the ques­tion is moot. My point is we all have many beliefs about com­put­ers. Many of these beliefs, which cur­rently are thought of as facts, will prob­a­bly change over time. Don’t get too com­fort­able with the facts.

Here’s the offi­cial announcement:

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/08/21/sbs-2008-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

I was part of the beta pro­gram from quite early on. It’s a great prod­uct. I’ll blog some more about it later. For now -

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the SBS Team at Microsoft.