Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9

An anonymous reader writes "SVG has been a published standard for almost a decade. Microsoft has had nothing to do with it, even while every other major browser adopted SVG as a supported format and interface. Just in the last few weeks, though, Microsoft has thrown a surprising amount of its weight behind SVG." This means for IE 9, but it's a start.

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Re:Pull Factor

[bmo]

"I bet your Linux install isn't a 10 year old operating system"

Yes, but a 2.4 kernel (10 years old) can run all userspace programs that the 2.6 kernel can. And I likely suspect that the 2.2 and 2.0 kernels wouldn't have problems, though I don't feel like firing up a VM to find out. I think the only kernels that would have problems would be the ones that only ran a.out instead of ELF, and you have to go back 15 years (prior to 1.2) to do that.

Sure is butthurt Windows fanboys in here.

Maybe Windows would get more respect from the users of other OSes if Microsoft didn't pull its dirty tricks. Your much worshiped corporate bosses have stepped on a lot of toes, so don't expect hugs and kisses.

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BMO