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Microsoft Games Boss Promises Higher Quality, Fewer Games
Thanks to the San Jose Mercury News for its article discussing Microsoft Game Studios' new general manager Shane Kim's attitude to development, as the piece notes: "Some of Kim's first acts have been to ax or delay several projects. Since the fall, Microsoft has scaled back its staff of internal game developers from 1,200 employees to about 1,000." But it's argued: "Because there are now so many others making games for the Xbox, Microsoft needs to make fewer titles, Kim said... This shift toward a conservative investing style mirrors the larger shift within the video game industry, where development budgets and marketing costs are reaching Hollywood proportions."
I'm using a version of IE with pop up blocking and tabbed browsing. It's from XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft did not STOP development on IE. The world at large was saying 'we don't like having updates pushed at us every week' so they slowed it down.
Microsoft is trying to keep the updates down, so they are going to roll out a ton of new features in Service Pack 2. It's not just promises, you can go get it yourself, right now.
No reason to lie.
I'm using a version of IE with pop up blocking and tabbed browsing. It's from XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft did not STOP development on IE. The world at large was saying 'we don't like having updates pushed at us every week' so they slowed it down.
Wow. Pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing? State of the art, for 1999. What about inline searches, mousegestures, style sheet switching, or even a built-in search bar? Does it even display PNG's properly yet?
By reducing the number of updates you're supposed to instead release the same amount of stuff, just in larger updates. I.E. is so pathetically far behind the browser development curve that it is only now catching up to where it's competitors were when it was last updated about four years ago. It's indefensible that a software company that still has roughly 100% profit margins would allow a key component of it's architecture to fall so badly behind. The only thing they have added since the days of actual competition is CSS, and that they had to be dragged into kicking and screaming.
You'll excuse me if I sound a little jaded, but many of their "ton of new features" are things that should easily have been there years ago, if they had bothered to care.
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none of the features you bitched about seem desirable. as for a built in search bar, its had it for ages. When you type into the url bar, it pops up Search For 'text' if its not already a url. And what do you mean by IE catching up? It seems like all the other browsers have been catching up to IE since they can barely render pages made for IE
It seems like all the other browsers have been catching up to IE since they can barely render pages made for IE .doc 100%
A troll if ever i saw one. IE fails to render w3c compliant html (ie. REAL html). a page "made for IE" is a page made with broken html. if its broken html format isnt documented, how do you expect it to be supported? its like complaining about OO.org not supporting
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