Careers: Resume chasms. They’re hardly uncommon in the IT fray, though one reader’s sprung from an unusual source: a disastrous personal relationship. Bob Lewis nonetheless addresses the tricky issue. “I’m honestly not certain as to the best way to handle the resume gap,” Lewis writes in Advice Line. “I’m not sure it’s the right question to ask.” Personal networking of the ilk that does not demand one is a good place to start, though. Platforms: In a new report Microsoft researchers claim that during its first 3 months Vista has tested as more secure than Apple’s Mac OS X as well as open source offerings from Novell, Red Hat and Ubuntu. “Industry pundits are sure to … take the position that Microsoft tilted the tables in its favor to come up with attractive results, but the fact of the matter remains there have not been many vulnerabilities discovered in Vista,” writes Matt Hines in this Zero Day post. The U.S. government might be interested in Microsoft’s report, given that the White House demands ‘secure’ Windows. Dave Rosenberg explains that, “in typical government fashion this is both totally logical and illogical.”Notes from the field: Microsoft and Robert X. Cringely just might have something in common, after all. Seems they’ve both reached the day when arm-twisting and trash talking no longer work as secrets to success. Okay, okay, perhaps only Microsoft really fits the description; Cringely still practices such tactics with devotion. Anyway, Vista, itself playing the bully, killed the Intel RAID arrays of one reader’s Dell Dimension 9200 and has garnered reports of frozen systems and BIOS incompatibilities. MS bribes, Vista nixes drives. The news beat: Oracle snaps up Tangosol for its in-memory data grid technology which will round out the Fusion middleware roster. FCC chairman Kevin Martin asks the commission to keep the ban on cell phone use during airplane flights in place. Another Trojan horse gallops through Skype’s VoIP network, this one dubbed Warezov or Stration. And Belgian company ServersCheck loses its lawsuit against Google, in which the former alleged that the search engine points to pirated copies of its software. Careers