Every web developer loves to wail on Internet Explorer but we need to act now if we want to stop the history of IE6 repeating itself with IE8. The longer we don’t, the longer we agree to limit ourselves to not using new and exciting features that make the internet better and our lives easier.
It’s an Opera of gigantic proportions with the company behind the, err, Opera browser whinging to the European Commission that Microsoft shouldn’t be allowed to include their browser IE with Windows.
Considering the lower performance of Vista’s games for power-players, I’m taking a look at how to grab older versions from an existing XP installation and get them working on Vista.
Six years old and still causing plenty of headaches for webdevelopers, IE6 represents everything that is bad and wrong with Microsoft… But there is hope! Figures show that IE6 usage is dropping right off, really much faster than could be expected.
The distributed identity system, OpenID has received support from one of the most unlikely corners: Microsoft.
As Microsoft and Apple duke it out, consumers are starting to realise there’s more than Windows
Everybody and their brother seems to want to give you a reason not to upgrade to Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.
Add search to your website with some frontend programming
I’m not usually pro-Apple on this site but having seen both the “keynotes” from the big camps, and having read an internal Microsoft email from MS Exec Jim Allchin [PDF], I’ve got to say that I’m starting to see his way.
Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish put down my webdev language of choice. He says he uses it so I can’t take him to the cleaners completely with his post but there are a few pointers that I really want to address.
The new design from Redmond leaves a lot to be desired.
More pie in the face of Sony again today; this time fired from Microsoft’s infinite moneybags.
To keep selling an endless cycle of upgrades, marketing has to convince you the thing you bought last year is ancient and broken
Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…
You can get yourself an address from a number of new Microsoft domains
I’ve just read an article at Aviran’s Place saying Microsoft have retrofitted their OEM Windows licences with a new caveat for upgrading users