An agreement has been found by expert regarding the top 25 most dangerous programming errors.
Very interesting list indeed, nice point is that we can find a lot of details on how to avoid these security errors. Obviously the dangerous part of these errors is that they can be exploited…
Insecure Interaction Between Components

Improper Input Validation
Improper Encoding [...]

While trying to download Windows7 today (like a lot of other people it seems as the server are too busy), I saw this postpone message from the Windows blog, I share it here as it is so slow to access:
Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 [...]

I’m a bit late for propagating the news, so you may have already heard that Microsoft has opened the Zurich Development Center (December 2008).

 
We are working on bits for Office Communication Server.
The work enviromement is really great, we got very confortable offices with a fitness room and a game room (ping-pong, dart, table soccer, shuffle [...]

I wish you all the best for 2009!!!
Good health, happiness and success : )
Ahmet