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Microsoft on Wednesday added photo gallery and file sharing components to its Windows Live application suite.

The programs – both of which were released in beta – provide a downloadable photo gallery application and a Web-based file sharing service.

Microsoft was focused on providing a “simple and flexible sharing solution that really brings the social experience to the front,” said Brian Hall, general manager for Windows Live. (more…)

11. Flex runs on Flash Player which can be installed on any OS while for Silverlight you should have Windows XP with latest Ser vice Pack or Vista.

12. Flex apps can be written on editor while we need Microsoft Expression for SilverLight development.

Read the whole story: Top 10 Reasons  why flex wins over silverlight

Ted Says:

1. Flex is available today and works.

2. Flex 2 is viewable in 85+% of web browsers, Flex 2 SWF files run in Flash Player 9.

3. You can use any HTTP Server and any backend technology (.NET,JAVA,PHP,Ruby,CF, Python) with Flex via XML, SOAP, Sockets, ZLIB, Etc. (more…)

Google yesterday urged a federal court to extend its supervision of Microsoft to ensure that it complies with a 2002 antitrust consent decree, arguing that Microsoft has not done enough to make sure its new desktop search product leaves room for competitors.

“Given Microsoft’s history of aggressively minimizing the impact of court-ordered relief, (more…)

The open source community is split over Microsoft’s claim that Linux infringes on its patents.

Last Tuesday, Paris-based Mandriva became the third Linux vendor within five days to say it isn’t interested in signing a licencing deal with Microsoft to avoid possible infringement claims. A Mandriva blog posting to that effect by Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon followed similar declarations by officials at Red Hat and Canonical, which oversees Ubuntu Linux.

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News Analysis: Windows Vista only had 12 vulnerabilities in its first six months, making Linux distros look buggy by comparison, but analysts aren’t convinced.

According to the numbers given in a new report from Microsoft, Windows Vista has blown away all the major enterprise Linux distributions and Mac OS X as far as having the smallest amount of serious security vulnerabilities in the six months since its release. The numbers were compiled by Jeff Jones, the security strategy director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group. (more…)