14 October, 2008
Comedy Central leads the way
Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we're pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6 isn't worth the time and effort. Just let your page degrade, and provide an avenue for users to upgrade.
...click to continue reading.26 March, 2008
Microsoft, The best protection it to fix security holes.
In any field, people have heard that its better to spend the time to fix the root cause of a problem than to just address the symptoms. It's not just common sense, but it costs lest in the long run too. You'd think the largest software maker in the world, would have this drummed into their collective brain by now, but you'd be wrong.
...click to continue reading.21 January, 2008
Next Internet Explorer 7 upgrade will be opt-out
According to InfoWorld, the next update of IE7 will be automatically downloaded and installed:Microsoft warns businesses of impending autoupdate to IE7.
...click to continue reading.17 December, 2007
It really is an upgrade
Much like my dad has done, another Windows Vista customer has "upgraded" a Vista machine to Windows XP. So, I guess the PR Lady was somewhat correct?
...click to continue reading.14 August, 2007
Get a better PDF viewer
Adobe's PDF Reader and Acrobat software are up there pretty high on my list of bloated windows software that I'll never put on a Windows maching I get. Its slow, bloated, and takes forever to launch, which is particularly annoying when you want to read something right now! Viw Download Squad, comes news of
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