- Sony-Ericsson to stay in place.
- Apple iPhone all over the news with weird stories and gossip. I reveal it here.
- Microsoft IE8 flopping. People bailing out already!
- Dell to Buy Palm? Why not?
- Al Gore fuss over his speech. I suspect a publicity stunt.
- IBM Sun deal seems to be fading.
- Linux World to become Open Source World.
- Gartner has dire prediction. You will not like what you hear.
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Right now people aren’t going to like anything MS makes because to many people make their living bashing MS JD included.
Has he used the product he’s bashing? No.
Did he bash it anyway? Yes
Was his bash based on anything even half way well informed? No
PS the one thing I have sort of checked is that none of the browers is enough faster than the others to make any difference unless you have a stop watch or high speed camera.
MS has done studies on that even have film showing side by side. An eye blink at best for any of the top contenders is about the difference on speed.
This matches my personal experience using four different kinds.
If you want to use something other than IE8 because you like it better then do so. Browsers are no about like ice-cream. Just get the flavor you like and shut up about it.
Microsoft (unlike Mozilla) have had a hard time moving people off of old browsers. The two most requested browsers I am asked to support is Firefox 3 and IE 6 (not 7/8). IE8 is a good browser. Unfortunately for them there are some really great browsers out there by Google, Apple, and Mozilla Foundation (Google).
In many ways this was Microsoft’s Bed they made. They broke from the W3 standards so that sites only worked on IE6 and later 7. Thus when they finally correct their mistakes, those sites no longer work unless they are in compatibility mode.
IE8 is the last browser with the IE Engine we are familiar with. My personal prediction is that Silverlight will be more important to Microsoft than the Browser moving forward. Especially now that it works outside the browser.
#1 The problem is the geniuses at microsoft have made the browser part of the OS. It not just a matter of flavour. Its a security issue.
I’m running IE8 now on this machine and it often hits compatiblity mode but the only way I know is a tiny pop up that quickly vanishes. Hardly a big deal.
It does seem faster than 7 but not enough to matter because 7 is fast enough.
I think all Browers need Sandboxie features built in. That would be a big deal.
I use Firefox 3, and once in a while I use the “switch rendering engine” option on a tabbed page, to trick some IE-only site into supplying the proper URL it’s holding back from Firefox. Then I switch right back to FF’s rendering engine. Because I have far fewer problems with it, and NoScript works with it. On very rare occasions I use the IE-Tab add-on. I think that these sites that insist on use of IE, are mostly doing so to take advantage of its weaknesses in protecting the users from being screwed in some way. Like sending spywares, malwares, and tracking cookies, via IE’s “trust all scripts” policy.
Microsoft got into the browser game late. And has been trying to “own” the internet, ever since. By altering the HTML coding, to suit only its browsers. Inventing different ways from the international standards, to do practically everything, for no better reason than to just muddy the waters, so only its browsers can make sense of it. And forcing webmasters all over the world to have to design pages that either only respond to IE, or generate a response coded to whatever browser they detect.
Some webmasters just assume that IE will always be king, and screw everything else that comes calling. While others realize they can’t afford to alienate millions of potential customers, because of their browser choice. So they code for more than IE. Or use the more general HTML codes that they all use. Not those proprietary IE page codes.
If Microsoft is stupid enough to think it can keep doing this strong-arming tactic. They’ll eventually end up with a browser no one trusts, or is a total joke. And only the most novice users will use without looking for something better. But I think MS’s days of leading users by the nose, are coming to a close.
PCs are fast enough now, that users could just VM a whole nuther OS apart from Windows. And run whatever software they want. And MS won’t be able to stop them. Unless it takes the very obviously belligerent step of killing all VM ware. MS will probably think to offer its own version of VM, some day. That cokes on running anything Open Source. Basically “reinventing” VM, the same way they did the browser.
As for IE8 being slow. Maybe it’s a “Cloud Computing” browser now. And it has to call home to Redmond, a lot, to know what to do. That way, MS can adjust its features (or bugs) on a daily basis. And they keep control of what sites are considered toxic. And what DNS servers to use.
IBM buying Sun doesn’t make sense. IBM has been refocusing their business on consulting for various reasons, including higher profit margins, and now they would get back deeper into hardware?