Microsoft At Middle Age

gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how 'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this decade.' An interesting read."

Comments

Linux?

[The Bungi]

How is an article that focuses on many other things and mentions Linux two times fodder for the peanut gallery again?

Re:Parners?

[jonnyfivealive]

well, bloody hell... ive got my mod points and i want a "die you grammar nazi" mod

They did not test Regular Expressions

[DeadSea]

I would be very interested to see how regular expressions (a core part of the JavaScript language) stack up in various browsers. Netscape has had good support for regexps since 4.0, IE since 5.0. Opera still seems to be lacking in these regards.

I'm basing this on my experience writing a contact form that thwarts spam. It has (optional) client side verification of the fields based on regular expressions. (The same regular expressions are then used again on the server, the client side stuff just makes it fail fast.) When a web browser thinks it supports JavaScript, but doesn't do it well enough this runs into problems. I keep finding browsers that like the regular expressions I use.

If you are using an uncommon browser, I would appretiate the testing. Please go to my contact page and fill out a valid email address but no subject or message. If your browser works correctly, you should not get an error about the email address. Then send me the results. (If you do have problems, disable JavaScript first.)

Re:Don't get all excited

[dildatron]

Actually, it has been proven numerous times that the tobacco companies add nicotine well above and beyond what comes naturally with tobacco leaves. check it out if you don't believe me.