The love-in between Microsoft and Foxtel – which previously brought us the Foxtel on Xbox announcement plus the live telecast of Microsoft’s E3 keynote on Fox8 – has just been reaffirmed, with Foxtel launching a TV Guide gadget for Windows PCs. More »
After Microsoft killed Kin, stories swirled attributing its mismanagement to warring fiefdoms inside the company. A Wall Street Journal report suggests that a similar conflict curbed an effort to overhaul privacy in IE8, with ad sales winning out over the browser group. More »
Microsoft has apparently decided that a good way to promote Internet Explorer 8 is by attacking Chrome over privacy concerns. Like, say, right here in this video. But something doesn’t add up. More »
Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser Microsoft’s ever shipped. It actually sorta tries to be compliant with modern web standards, or at least more so than its predecessors, so it’s a huge leap forward, even if it’s nowhere near WebKit-based browsers like Safari or Chrome on that front. So, I’m glad to see it’s now the world’s most-used browser, instead of IE6 or IE7, with 25.6 per cent of the total market, according to Net Applications. [Windows Team Blog]
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So it appears that Microsoft has given up on trying to compete with Firefox on a simple feature for feature basis, and instead has opted to go for bribery in an effort to get people to download IE8. More »
