Tag: microsoft
Lenovo Steps Up
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Hot on the heals of the child like complaining from Acer we have Lenovo with a totally different response. “Although we don’t like Microsoft providing hardware, for us, it just adds one more competitor,” Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said during the conference call in response to analyst’s question. “[They’re] just one of our many competitors.…
Acer Whines
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So Acer is complaining that surface is competing directly with them (and it is) and threatens that they’ll look at alternatives to Windows. I can certainly see that they’d be upset, but what alternatives are there? Apple won’t license OSX and the general consumer isn’t interested in Linux (despite how rock solid it is now).…
IE is Doing the Right Thing with Do Not Track
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Microsoft gets a pretty bad wrap for it’s browsers. IE (specifically version 6) has been a thorn in the side of every web developer for years. With that type of history it’s sometimes hard to give MS credit when they do right. In IE 10 ‘do not track’ will be enabled by default, and I…
They Make Crappy Hardware Anyway
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So it seems that there is some risk to Microsoft with producing the new Surface Tablet. The company says in the document that “our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.” The real problem here is the OEM’s. HP, Dell, Acer, and all…
The Long Proposed Death of IE 6
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The proposed demise of IE 6 rings with the shouts of joy from web developers the world over, but is it truly on the horizon? While sites trying to kill IE 6 extoll all the valid reasons web designers and developers have to want the death; clients sit and look at philosophical arguments and compare…
Can We Get by with Web Apps?
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Web apps have been heralded as the solution to our online and offline lives. We do not have to install software on our machines. Things are backed up online and, in theory, we can edit offline with Google Gears (or other solution). So looking at this promised land I decided to move my blog writing…
The News: IE to use Webkit & Staying creative
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Well here is an interesting development. In a recent developers conference in Sydney Steve Ballmer said that “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that.” This is very interesting as the rendering in IE sucks currently and Webkit is awesome. I know that for all web designers it would be a wonderful thing…
Today’s News
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While reading through my feeds today I noticed a post from Sitepoint regarding the use of IE 6. While most of us web designer’s wish IE a quick and painful death we always wonder if we really can stop supporting it. Many notable sites have stopped (37signals) but for the rest of us can we…
