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Internet Explorer 8 Released by Microsoft
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- Mon 23 Mar 2009 at 16:00
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Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8 to the world last Thursday. Even though IE7 still feels rather new in the web development world, due to its rather slow adoption, IE8 is the first major release of the browser since October 2006. IE8 features: Private browsing mode "Accelerators" Web slices Better page zooming Better RSS reader Developer tools Improvements to the rendering engine, security, and performance Microsoft have made a number of fixes and improvements to IE's rendering engine in IE8. Finally, IE8 pass…
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Windows 7 Pre-beta Leaks onto Bittorrent
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- Mon 3 Nov 2008 at 11:29
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CNET's News.com is reporting about Windows 7 having quickly leaked onto Bittorrent sites, such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova: The pre-beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developers Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it. Windows 7 leaking out onto Bittorrent is no surprise at all, it happens with everything nowadays. It would be nice if Microsoft just gave out the pre-rel…
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Microsoft Does U-turn on MSN Music Shutdown
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- Mon 23 Jun 2008 at 16:36
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In a past rant, I talked about Microsoft's decision to close its DRM servers for its MSN Music service, rendering all of the music bought from the online store next to worthless. Luckily, it turns out that Microsoft listened to what was being said by the online community and they have decided to keep the servers online. They have extended the date from the previous cut-off of the 31st of August 2008 to at least the end of 2011. This is great news for anyone that used the MSN Music service before it closed, but still it is not as good a sol…
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Why DRM is Broken
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- Thu 22 May 2008 at 22:27
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In my opinion, DRM has always been broken. Locking customers into a certain player or into a certain piece of software severely limits what they can do with the files they have legally bought (a disadvantage that illegally obtained tracks conveniently don't have). This is taken to a whole new level when the customer is denied access altogether to the tracks they have legally purchased. MSN Music, which is now shut down, was used by a fair amount of people. The tracks that were purchased all came with Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM protection…
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IE8: Web Standards
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- Mon 24 Mar 2008 at 21:00
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Finally, Microsoft is getting on the ball and improving Internet Explorer; a browser that lied dormant for so many years is finally receiving regular signs of improvement. Of course, because Internet Explorer did not improve standards-wise for so many years, it remains far behind other browsers, such as Opera and Firefox. However, Microsoft has recently announced the development of Internet Explorer 8 and they have released a beta version of the browser. IE8 shows a number of CSS improvements, although it still is lagging behind Opera and Fi…
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ISO Rejects Microsoft's OOXML
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- Wed 5 Sep 2007 at 20:09
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The International Organisation for Standardisation has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard. The Open Document Format (used in OpenOffice.org) is already an international standard. Late last week, the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) nullified its vote for the Microsoft document standard. Earlier, Microsoft had been accused of offering benefits to partner companies to vote in support of OOXML. However, the SIS denies any connection between the accusations and the nullification. A se…
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Microsoft Virtual Earth Launched
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- Mon 25 Jul 2005 at 10:07
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This is Microsoft's answer to Google Maps. A blog post gives us some more information: Microsoft has launched MSN Virtual Earth, a new service which combines mapping with local search to answer user queries. Read the press release here. MSN Virtual Earth provides detailed street-level maps and point-of-interest information for the United States. Later this year it will incorporate bird's-eye-view imagery that shows cities, landmarks, and more from a 45-degree angle view (we told you about some of these features a month or two ago). …
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No Microsoft in Norway
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- Tue 28 Jun 2005 at 20:22
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Just yesterday the Norwegian government announced plans to move completely over to open source products in 2006. Instead of the typical Microsoft Office they'll be using open source file formats for all government activities. Been on TV writes 'The Norwegian Minister of Modernization today at a press conference in Oslo declared that proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication with government. He also calls for all parts of government to have a plan ready by 2006 for use of open source solutions. Taking great care not t…
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Microsoft Advises Against Netscape
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- Fri 27 May 2005 at 5:37
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Recently Microsoft reported that when installing Netscape 8, Internet Explorer has issues rendering XML pages. According to Microsoft they're working out the issues with Netscape. As a quick solution they advised to uninstall Netscape. Typical. Anti-Microsoft activist have already criticized the corporation for poor marketing skills, attempting to keep users with Internet Explorer. They claim that the error is on Microsoft's behalf and that they're using it as an excuse to keep users. We also learn that Netscape, who claims to be a se…
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