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Apparently they are if we are to believe Robert Scoble. According to Andrei Herasimchuk from Design by Fire who started all this we now have the opportunity to tell Microsoft about our daily sufferings with Internet Explorer. Maybe if we all voice-in the people in Redmond will see the light and bring Internet Explorer on par with the Safari, Firefox and other standard compliant browsers that are out there.

As you may have heard, yesterday Microsoft got fined $613 Million/497 Million Euro by European Union. Media Player is the center of all this.

“Consumers ought to be able to choose their media player, not Microsoft,” Mr. Monti said at the news conference. “Media Player is a separate product. There is a separate demand for media players.”

According to the ruling Microsoft now has to make two different versions of its Windows operating system, one with the player and one without in Europe.

Are you using Windows then you better fire up Windows update because you guessed it: there's another security leak. The flaw is no small one because it was discovered last year in July and it took Microsoft until Tuesday to release a patch. It affected the root of Windows operating system.

"This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released," said Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security of Aliso Viejo, California, which discovered the new Windows flaws. "The breadth of systems affected is probably the largest ever. This is something that will let you get into Internet servers, internal networks, pretty much any system."

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said a few weeks back in London that users of obscure systems like MacOS X and Linux have to be careful in the future. YEAH right! More details in this Wired article.

It seems that Internet Explorer is a hot topic in the CSS designers community right now. If you make websites for a living then you probably know what I am talking about, but for those who have no clue maybe this will shed some light. The typical process of developing a website starts in Photoshop and so far no clouds are to been seen. When the client approves the look it’s off to DreamWeaver and BBEdit.

UK television channel BBC2 will broadcast a show that looks at the world’s most powerful computer moguls Thursday December 4 at 10.50 p.m. (Belgian time)...