This is how Microsoft gets away with “interoperability” — co-opting proven standards (like XML) and turning them into Microsoft pseudo-standards, which are then set as defaults for the program while offering the real standards as options.
Microsoft plans to significantly boost spending in the upcoming year to battle with Google and other rivals. The company is starting from scratch, and it scares Wall Street.
Microsoft’s not-yet-released Designer tool for creating web applications is IE-friendly but may be unfriendly to standard browsers.
Hackers can misuse a function in the rendering of Windows Meta File images to install adware or spyware or turn your PC into a zombie spam mailer.
Sing along! On the 12th day of Microsoft’s Christmas, Bill Gates gave to me…
The recent news of a vulnerability in Firefox 1.5 was blown out of proportion, while the news of more damaging Internet Explorer vulnerabilities slipped by with no more than a “business as usual” attitude.
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