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It’s time we buried Internet Explorer 8

Thursday, 13 November 2014browsersie8microsoftwebdev

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.

This Operatic madness must not succeed

Friday, 14 December 2007iemicrosoftoperawindows

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.

Running XP’s Solitaire in Vista

Monday, 11 June 2007gamesmicrosofttechnologyvistaxp

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.

IE6 usage is dropping like a stone

Monday, 30 April 2007browsersie6ie7microsoftie

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.

OpenID gets support

Saturday, 10 February 2007microsoftopenidtechnology

Linux is the only winner in the PC vs Mac war

Wednesday, 7 February 2007applelinuxmicrosofttechnology

Reason 172: Solitaire

Wednesday, 7 February 2007gamesmicrosoftvistawindows

AJAX search with MS Live and mootools

Saturday, 13 January 2007ajaxmicrosoftprogrammingsearch

Microsoft dream. Apple do.

Saturday, 13 January 2007applemicrosoftrant

RE: Why not .NET?

Saturday, 13 January 2007aspnetmicrosoftphptechnology

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.

New Microsoft Site Bombs

Friday, 15 December 2006designmicrosoftreleases

Introducing the PS… Erm… 360

Thursday, 30 November 2006funnymicrosoftps3sonyxbox

Microsoft: Old Versions Are Rubbish

Friday, 24 November 2006microsoftofficetechnology

♥ ♥ Ballmer ♥ ♥ ♥ Developers ♥ ♥

Monday, 13 November 2006ballmerfunnymicrosoft

Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…

Get an @live.com email address!!

Friday, 10 November 2006emailmicrosoftofferreleases

MS Retrofitting OEM Licences

Thursday, 16 February 2006eulamicrosoftwindows