Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing White House E-mails
Firefox Download Day Forces Postponement of IE Vulnerability Festival
After seven months in beta the latest iteration of the application that reignited the browser wars is finally here. Firefox 3 debuts today and to mark the occasion, Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the popular open-source Web browser, is rallying users to help it set a Guinness World Record for highest number of software downloads in a single day.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Part Man. Part Machine. All Ballmer. The Future of Corporate Leadership
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered his last scheduled speech as the full-time chairman of Microsoft this morning. He spoke at length about Microsoft’s application development plan, the August debut of Internet Explorer 8, and the company’s efforts to compete with Google. And then the ‘Ballmer-Bot’ showed up …
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Microsoft Announces AIEEEEEEE!!!!!! 8
Turns out the highlight of today’s MIX08 event wasn’t Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Studio, but IE8 (Internet Explorer 8). Speaking at the Microsoft Web development conference, Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group’s general manager, announced IE8 Beta 1. In addition to Web standards compliance, the new browser showcases some new features and improvements, among them
Activities–”contextual [...]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
EU Fine Expands Microsoft’s Support for Web Standards
Microsoft is serious about its newfound commitment to interoperability–serious enough to make Internet Explorer 8 Web standards-compliant out of the box.
In a complete reversal of earlier policy, the software giant has decided to make IE8 default to a standards-compliant mode of rendering Web pages that favors interoperability, rather than an IE7 rendering mode that favors [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Opera to Microsoft: You Might Have Mentioned This Before We Made Fools of Ourselves
Well, Opera must be a little red in the face right about now. A week after it complained to the European Commission about Microsoft’s failure to support Web standards, the company said that a preliminary version of its Internet Explorer 8 browser passed Acid2, a test developed by the Web Standards Project to help browser [...]
Opera Asks EU to Make IE Stink Less
Looks like Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have a shot at a second dinner date with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
Less than three months after agreeing to comply with key elements of the European Commission’s 2004 antitrust order against it, the company is facing new accusations of monopoly abuse. Norway’s Opera Software ASA said today [...]
Friday, August 31, 2007
Microsoft Legal Breaks Into Song: ‘Another One Bites the Dust’
It’s taken the better part of a decade, but Microsoft has finally managed to settle the patent-violation case brought against it by Eolas Technologies. First filed in 1999, the lawsuit claimed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer wrongfully used Eolas’s technology for running external applications in the browser. Eolas won $520.6 million in damages from Microsoft in 2003, [...]
I’m Just Biding My Time Here Until I Can Quit and Study Whale Feces Full Time
Given the chance, how would you alter the course of your career? Well, if you worked at Microsoft’s Security Response Center, you might consider taking a job as an Olympic drug tester, a gravity research subject, or a “whale-feces researcher”–vocations that all rank as improvements over a position at MSRC on Popular Science magazine’s 2007 [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
