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Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy
eldavojohn writes "Shortly following the frustrations of IE7, Gates claims that he is unaware that IE8 Secrecy has been alienating developers. Ten influential bloggers met with Bill on Tuesday and asked Gates questions about why they are no longer receiving information on IE. From Molly Holzschlag's blog: 'Something seems to have changed, where there is no messaging now for the last six months to a year going out on the IE team. They seem to have lost the transparency that they had. This conversation [between Web developers and the IE team] seems to have been pretty much shut down, and I'm very concerned as to why that is.' To which Bill replied: 'I'll have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.'"
um... hate to tell you this but they haven't been 90% for a LONG time. In fact alot of studies are showing Firefox with 20-35% marketshare, Opera with 5-8%, Safari with 3-5%. Even if you take those lowest figures, the combination of all versions of IE would only have approx. 72% market share... 52% at worse.
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First, the OP is referring to XHTML, where an error message on malformed XML is required. Second, if IE gave an error for a web page, web developers would surely fix it before the users had a chance to complain much. Fixing legitimate XML errors would be easier than the contortions web developers already go through just to make pages look good in the current version of IE.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
IE usage is closer to 80%, but it is still dropping. Give it a few more years, and it'll be down to 70%.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
"It's an amazing world we live in where roughly a year after Vista was released it has 90 million users"
No it has not in any way, shape or form 90 million users. Microsoft has sold 90 million Windows Vista/XP/NT/2000 licenses in total. The funny thing is, any windows license sold by Microsoft since Vista was released is counted as a Windows Vista license.
If you have a fortune 500 company and buy a million licenses to deploy XP they will count as Windows Vista license no matter how you buy them. Then we have all the home users that come to me with their new computer with Vista installed wanting me to install XP and delete Vista from their computers.
Vista is a lame duck considering it was 6 years since XP and there is a pent up want for a new OS. Six years of anticipation and vaporware turned into only minor improvement and in many cases regression.
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It is offtopic, but I'll answer anyway.
Normally, Google's form uses q as the field for the search term, not searchQ. And btnI is the name of the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. The link actually has nothing to do with IE 8. It's really just equivalent to an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search for contactlognet, for which Google immediately shoots back a redirect to that site. That site in turn sends you yet another redirect.
Just for clarification, Opera was the first browser that featured tabs. I was using that back when it was still supported with an ad pane built-in, and blocking those ads with Outpost Pro or Zonealarm. I use Firefox now because of NoScript. There are many other great extensions, but nothing as important IMHO.
Just to clarify your clarification, there was at least one browser that had tabs before Opera.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Absolute bullshit. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It describes its contents. It describes the semantics. Being semantic is its very nature.