May 03
10 comments 2004 at 04.06 am posted by Veerle
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.
Apr 27
9 comments 2004 at 04.03 am posted by Veerle
I was reading Jeffrey Zeldman’s post ”I would like to buy the world a Mac” where he talks about using pixellated text when designing in Photoshop because most of the world will see it that way. He has a point there because not everybody has updated to Windows XP and even if they are ClearType is off by default. Most users I know don’t even have a clue that it is there in the first place.
Mar 25
15 comments 2004 at 04.45 am posted by Veerle
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.
Mar 08
7 comments 2004 at 02.56 am posted by Veerle
The theory is that you need to buy a stamp at a post office before you can send someone an e-mail. According to Bill Gates (in a CNN interview) this will be THE solution to fight spam. His reasoning is that you get spam because e-mail is now a free medium. To me it sounds like a typical Bill Gates idea, remember he also once said that the Internet will fail and look at where we are now.
Feb 12
6 comments 2004 at 05.53 am posted by Veerle
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.
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."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."
Jan 30
1 comments 2004 at 12.53 am posted by Veerle
I just came across a very interesting read for us web developers (everybody else also) in a blog from a Microsoft employee (Robert Scoble). This guy is some kind of spokes person for the development team of Internet Explorer.
Jan 27
2 comments 2004 at 01.22 pm posted by Veerle
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.
Dec 03
1 comments 2003 at 01.33 pm posted by Veerle
I came across an interesting piece of evidence that it can! The person in question is Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer. After this movie certainly not to be confused with Apple’s CEO Steve ;-) I wonder if Steve Ballmer has watched too many MacWorld keynotes and is trying a whole new tactic to get the same famous distortion field as the one Jobs is famous for? :-D
Nov 30
1 comments 2003 at 11.03 am posted by Veerle
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)…
Oct 30
0 comments 2003 at 05.30 am posted by Veerle
Michael once worked at Microsoft, but now has lost his job. He has a weblog and published a photo of a delivery of Apple G5’s on the Redmond-campus. Apparently the people at Microsoft weren’t amused by this and Michael could pack his things and leave…
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