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At the times it seems European Commission’s anti-monopoly policies are there for Microsoft exclusively. Even so, Microsoft has complied and done a lot to meet the regulation for European market. This time though, it seems Microsoft is not willing to lose out and is about to outsmart EC. Read the rest of this entry »

Quite frankly, pretty much everyone familiar with Adobe Flash Platform would agree, that Microsoft’s recent try to produce their own RIA platform is not up to scratch. A very short walk-through below should give an idea of what’s the status of this venture.
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Somewhat an interesting discussion took off on Twitter between me (@tekkie) and Jason Young of award-winning Virion (@virion_ca) about the IE6 Update technique. While the goal of such a technique looks decent, it’s mainly of benefit to developers. Read the rest of this entry »

On April 10th Microsoft Program Management announced Internet Explorer 8 distribution in Automatic Update of Windows. The update will be optional on the opt-in basis with the options to Ask Me Later, Install and Don’t Install. Read the rest of this entry »

A notorious subject in whole, all W3C-capable newsletter coders must be familiar with Outlook support for open standards. To make it short, it looks like the bubble of Microsoft’s long-praised work towards standards compliance is threatening to burst. Read the rest of this entry »

Years ago, for Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft took a shortcut to ‘extended CSS support’ that they called the Dynamic Properties. Despite the fancy name it had nothing to do with W3C Cascading Style Sheet standards nor was it available cross-platform. Now, as the software giant has realized the impact of open standards, they are giving up on these non-standard developments. Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergei Brin and Bill Gates, to name a few, have now been lined up in Fortune Magazine’s list of 25 most powerful people in business. Read the rest of this entry »