More Microsoft in town

Turns out i’m not the only one going to the Nottingham event!

Going through my feeds at least two other people whose blogs i read are going

Eileen Brown will be delivering “A look at Exchange Server 2007 featuring manageability, scalability, consolidation of servers and end user capabilities including voice integration, unified messaging and digital rights management”

Vijay Singh Riyait (who uses the same wordpress theme as me :-p) will be going to both the events

I’m looking forward to it as i haven’t been to one of these events in some time

Web vs Client

Interesting post over on The Furrygoat Experience (by Steve Makofsky) talking about his opinion on the apparent death of client side apps.

I’ve seen a couple of posts on various sites over the last twelve months or so on how they think all applications will eventually become web based. This may (or may not) be true but i dont think it’ll happen anytime soon.

As Steve mentions certain applications just work better on the client side. His example of photo editing is a good one and video editing, 3d rendering, audio editing / conversion are just some examples i can think of off the top of my head.

Web applications will become more powerful as the Web continues to mature and bandwith increases but i believe rich client side applications are here for a long time

And as if by magic..

No sooner had a posted about the issues i was having using Sonicwall firewalls with Internet Explorer 7 i received an email from Sonicwall with their take on the problem

Have a look here

To fix the problem they are going to be releasing new firmware for all their current (fourth) generation models

I was pleased to have received an official notice of this, even if it took a little while (how long was IE7 in beta for?!)

Only thing i find a little strange is their workaround until the firmware release

(1) remove IE 7.0 and downgrade to IE version 6.0 or

(2) use Mozilla’s Firefox as an alternative browser

They don’t mention anywhere the user agent string utility mentioned in my previous post

It’s not that important i guess as the firmware release will sort everything out…

No details though as to when the firmware is to be released!

** Updated on 19/03/2007 **

This has been fixed!

Read my new post here