Productivity Future Vision (2011) - YouTube
This vision thing commissioned by Microsoft shows a future-friendly networked world where content flows like water from screen to screen.
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Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 « Paul Irish
Paul paints a grim picture of our future support nightmares with multiple Internet Explorers, each one with multiple buggy “compatibility” modes.
Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Dean Hachamovitch’s “Native HTML5″ announcement [dive into mark]
Mark Pilgrim translates Dean Hachamovitch’s utterly bizarre and nonsensical announcement of IE10 that kept talking about “native HTML5.”
WOFF File Format 1.0 Submission Request to W3C
Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera have formally submitted the WOFF font format to the W3C.
SPARKLINES IN THE GRID - Patent Application 20090282325
Microsoft are trying to patent sparklines. Twunts.
Word has always done a great job of displaying the... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind
Ben calls bullshit on Microsoft's defence of Outlook's rendering. Ben, as usual, is correct.
Persuading Microsoft to Implement Canvas « Processing.js Blog
The 26 step process required to add +1 to a feature request in IE. Franz Kafka is alive and well and living in Redmond.
IE6 Update
This is kinda sneaky but quite clever. Subtly encourage IE6 users to upgrade.
isolani - Web Standards: IE8 Blacklist: forcing standards rendering opt-in
Bend over 'cause Microsoft is about to stick it to us standards-savvy developers. Again.
All Together Now!: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
Schadenfreude by software. Every singe Zune on the face of the planet froze at exactly the same moment.
Our First Labs Project: A Microformats Toolkit Called "Oomph" - Lab - MIX Online
A handy microformats toolkit from Microsoft(!) making it easier for developers to write, style and find microformats (hCard and hCalendar in particular). Neat!
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register
Håkon is not happy with the default settings in IE8. Deep in the preferences, "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked.
CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer
A very handy table of CSS support for versions of Internet Explorer from 5 to 8. Note that IE8 Beta 1 is listed separately to IE8.0.
IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
Praise Jeebus! The IE team are doing the right thing regarding the default behaviour of version targeting in IE8. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
A reasoned response to X-UA-Compatible • Gated Logic • nevali.net
A nice analysis and skewering of Microsoft's proposed default behaviour for version targeting.
The B-List: X-No-Thanks
A superbly clear analysis of the proposed default version targeting behaviour in IE8+.
Microsoft koan [dive into mark]
The madness of the default behaviour in IE8 explained in a beautiful koan.
Katemonkey.co.uk: X-UA-Lemur-Compatible
The timeline behind Microsoft's latest announcement.... as told by stuffed lemurs.
this is rachelandrew.co.uk » IE8 and the future of the web
Rachel adds her thoughts on Microsoft's broken implementation of version switching—and very good thoughts they are too.
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
Great news from Redmond: IE8 passes the Acid2 test.
QuirksBlog: Opera's antitrust complaint and political control of web standards
PPK points out a potentially dangerous aspect to Opera's actions, one that that the rest of us have missed: "Without consulting anybody, Opera is trying to give a political body the right to decide what does and what does not constitute a web standard."
Ricky Gervais - Microsoft 1 - Google Video
David Brent at Microsoft.
mezzoblue § ClearerType
Good news everyone! ClearType is turned on by default in IE7.
Banned Xbox 360 Ad
Fairly amusing and strangely unbanworthy.
Microsoft Team RSS Blog : The orange icon...
Possible ideas for IE's icon for RSS feeds. I like number five.
Information wants to be free (as in speech)
John Allsopp on the importance of open formats for documents.