By Robin Monks on September 3, 2010
Image via Wikipedia My vlog thoughts of course beginning with Microsoft Mouse Mischief SDK. So, here’s the thought: someone at Microsoft probably some underpaid intern — who was probably trying very hard to keep their job after the summer ended – if you’re listening Microsoft don’t let them stay…let them go…yeah. They decided to invent a technology [...]
Posted in Video | Tagged Business, Microsoft, Monopolies and Oligopolies, mouse, Technology |
By Robin Monks on February 23, 2010
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
Posted in Development, Drupal, Free Software, Watchful Eye | Tagged Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Web browser |
By Robin Monks on February 21, 2010
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather [...]
Posted in Drupal, Free Software, Policy and Law | Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Web browser, Windows 7, Windows Update |
By Robin Monks on February 4, 2010
Image via Wikipedia So, Microsoft sent me a complimentary copy of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 today for being a partner. Kudos to them. As to Expression Web, it works wonderful for prototyping but, doesn’t really handle CMS themeing that well. Will be playing around with Expression Blend a bit later to see what geekiness I [...]
Posted in Development, Screenshots, Video | Tagged Add new tag, Business, Microsoft, Microsoft Expression Studio, Microsoft Expression Studio 3 |
By Robin Monks on November 18, 2009
Image via Wikipedia A recent PCworld story, suggests in a measure to prevent hardware modding (which does have fair use purposes as well, such as making backups of content) they have banned up to a million Xbox 360 consoles from the Xbox LIVE service, and may have rendered the machines mainly unusable. DailyTech’s sources claim [...]
Posted in Watchful Eye | Tagged Console Platforms, Microsoft, Modding, Video game, Xbox, Xbox LIVE |
By Robin Monks on January 1, 2006
Thanks to a new invention by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), this extension let’s you choose the engine to use (gecko or IE) for a webpage, much like Netscape does. One great use of this is the ability to run Mircosoft Update in Firefox: Now you’ll never need to open IE to view a webpage again! [...]
| Tagged Microsoft, Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird |
By Robin Monks on December 20, 2005
Dell, one of the largest PC makers, has begun to put Firefox on their UK PCs. The Inquirer posted a article suggesting it might be true, which was later confirmed by Blake Ross, with a promise of more information later on. (See also: Netscape on HP) This could further push consumers away from Microsoft products, [...]
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By Robin Monks on November 23, 2005
Ad-supported applications: just say no by ZDNet‘s Phil Wainewright — The CEOs of NetSuite, WebSideStory and WebEx all agree with the majority of TalkBack posters — ad-funded on-demand business applications make no sense at all. Sounds like Microsoft would have some opposition to it’s plans….again. Really, who would think a business would want it’s work [...]
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By Robin Monks on November 23, 2005
Anyone that’s heard the hype (C|Net, eWeek, BetaNews), or read the sepc on Microsoft’s “Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML”, aka. SSE, will realize that it also adds lots of complexity to RSS.The real question is, why RSS? Microsoft’s “extension” is more like a whole new XML beast than RSS. Why? Publicity. RSS is [...]
Posted in Email and RSS, Standards | Tagged Microsoft |
