I just spent a weekend cleaning a rootkit from hulu off my system. Not even a restore point could get rid of it. Only a fresh format. Fuck hulu and their drm shit!
Chrome is new now just like IE 6 was when CSS was new. It was not an issue in 2001. Look what happened? W3c came up with a different box model than IE which meant missing padding and stretching, W3C decided to round with floats instead of doubles with pixels so now IE 6 places elements wrong too, many new features came out as IE was frozen in time. This lead to where it is today. Chrome is being just as stupid as the W3C could implement something differently than Chrome making IE and FF render the site differently.
So what is Google to do? Do an update to fix it? Oops that would break corporate apps and websites. Keep the -webkit CSS hacks? Now website developers have to write special rules for Chrome and corporations will only support particular browsers.
That is 2004 all over again.
For your comments on me being a corporate IE 6 fan...
I hate IE 6 you kidding me?
Companies stick with IE 6 because the price tag to change each intranet app ranges from $200,000 to $1,000,000. What justification would be to upgrade? So employees can browse on Facebook more? Please...
The CEOs job is to raise its stock price. Nothing more and using the latest technology for its employees lowers the share price and hurts productivity.
A windows 7 migration is expensive. I do consulting on this and Windows 7 is not as friendly with Active Directory as XP is. This could mean significance maintenance of clearing stale lingering AD objects, clearing ARP tables of shared mapped drives etc.The costs outweigh the benefits and accountants at work make the rules as it is a company's job to make money. Productivity is lost as employees at each site have to do IT stuff and manually setup each desktop... you know Bob had to save his emails on his hard drive and loves his IE favorites etc.
So yes I am very concerned as Google's plan is clearly to use its own implementation and features to tie its Chrome apps and appstores to its browser. We have seen this before when IE was gaining traction and history will repeat itself.
Do you have IE 9 on your system? Go to a page with lots of graphics and like www.cnn.com and hit the up and down arrows in IE 9 and then compare it to Chrome? Notice the flickering? IE 9 is smooth if you have a decent graphics card.
Its smooth scrolling and hardware acceleration are nice. I still use Chrome as HTML 5 and the lack of addons are a little limiting but IE 10 will fix this.
Point is FF is a buggy piece of crap. Chrome is quirky and turning proprietary.
That leaves just IE. IE 9 is ok and not great. IE 10 will be competitive and has the most standard compliance out there if you do third party javascript acid tests. IE is not the big scary turd it was a decade ago and it is not proprietary anymore.
"They said that 10 years ago. The browser was to break the MS monopoly, obsolete the OS, really soon now everything would be running in the browser, yada, yada, yada.
Every few years, someone digs up a dead horse and runs it through town again."
You mean like salesforce.com, SAP, Google Docs, Gmail, Office 365, Iphone apps?
Google has proprietary CSS and Javascript as "enchancements". Yes webkit is open source but the CSS 3 implementations are not w3c standards. THey propose replacing HTTP with SPDY and already violate RFC implementations of http that can flood routers that are not configured properly in order to make it appear faster. Now everyone is doing it.
To me Chrome feels a lot like IE 5 or 5.5 where cool AJAX was introduced and IE at the time was a great browser that was faster and sleeker. However, proprietarness crept in at those releases just like it is with Chrome.
IE did its work in the corporate market with tie in. Chrome is doing it in the consumer market. Oddly, IE 10 is one of the most standards compliant browsers that is being developed. It is the total opposite of 10 years ago but Chrome will be stuck with many webmasters a decade from now who will wine like they do today with supporting IE 6.
IE 9 and 10 are fully open standards compliant with XAML the only semi proprietary thing in it for Metro hooks. Oddly I am considering going to IE 10 when it comes out because it is the the most standards compliant, secure, and best browser and I am afraid to get locked into an eco system.
I feel I just walked into the twilight for even saying this! But I feel it is exactly 10 years ago all over again with IE 6 and that fear of the web being closed off. Those were some dark days.
Companies like Apple have proved that once they are in a dominate position can quickly turn into the bad guys. 10 years ago I never would have imagined Apple doing anything as crazy as they are today. Google just might pull it off as IE and FF usage is declining.
I wished the internet and free standards came popular before MS made a jagaurnut with Office. It is the file formats and having everything work and render properly across suppliers, workers, vendors, etc. If your document looks like crap that says a lot about you and the company.
This is the only reason why I and everyone uses office. If OpenDoc were a standard the world would be a much better place. Does Numbers save files in that format by default? Also MS does make great products in addition to crappy ones. Just like Windows 7 it is a mixed bag. It is great for consumers but shitty active directory that locks corporate desktops if a shared drive has any issues. Office has Excel and Access which both are awesome! Just Word and Outlook which are crap are bundled in. LibraOffice does not have a form driven database for non programmers like Access and its spreadsheet program is no where near Excel in functionality so these are reasons as well.
It was very close in 1997 when Steve Jobs came back. For several months MS did a case study and halted development of Mac Office until it could justify the costs. It was in the news. Apple announced it was ditching MacOS classic and were counting its option on what to do as it needed an NT competitor which later became MacOSX. MS said it would not support it outright at first.
Steve offer Bill Gates 15% of the company so he would have a vested interest in seeing Apple succeed and Office was critical. He wanted MacOSX on a NT kernel and he almost got his wish.
Anyway the mac verison of office lacks VBA support and Outlook. So it is still not that friendly in offices yet for these reasons.
If you had to endure hell for 12 years of IE 6 & XP why would you want to go through that again and pick an obsolete platform and now be stuck with Windows 7 and IE 8 specific intranet apps that lack HTML 5?
One of the great things about IE 10 and later is they all support standards so you are never locked into a version of IE anymore. Seriously corporations hate change and costs but they do want to upgrade when they are ready and not be held hostage by picking obsolete platforms and then apps that are tied to them?
If Metro had even a Windows task bar and overlaying Windows this could be doable. I fail to see METRO as anything but a failed cell phone gui great for media consumption one app at a time. That sucks for Office users.
Employers hate PDFs as they are not editable. HR and 85% of app submission software for their websites require Word formats.
Actually with Office 2007 and later they use OpenXML in docx files which is a large step in the right direction.Not as ideal as OpenDocs because it uses a tag for binary blobs, but it will guarantee the formatting and key things are consistent across multiple versions of Word. A table wont wrap around if the person has a low resolution as an example which was common in regular.doc files. Starting last year I stopped using.doc files and I figured those who couldn't read it are places I would not want to work anyway and are incompetent employers. Office 2003 can read them with a free add-on for years now.
If you think it is ok to send a pdf maybe they are right about you instead?
That is a no no in business as HR and management love to highlight and edit cover letters and resumes back and forth in internal emails. Ask any job coach or HR person? Something not editable is quickly deleted. Also look around at various job sites and internal resume submission apps on corporate websites? They all want Word docs. Sometimes they will request a PDF, but almost always will require a Word doc. Some will accept plain text too. But if you do that the formatting will be lost and you will look incompetent and it will go right in the virtual trash bin.
I only use Andriod so I did not know that bit. Apple does want MS to write Office because many executives will not use anything but Office. Steve Jobs made sure of this when he came back as much as he wished people would use iWorks. Consumers are more open to iWorks than proefessionals. I am not as I can not guarantee that my resume or other files will look the same in Office, but I guess some people do not care.
Just call a programmer to come in and go over use and case studies with your needs instead, and wait 3 months for approval and have the IT director work with accounting in doing a cost analysis on how much return this would be to make this client/server sql app meanwhile you get fired because the boss wanted this work done in 1 week time only.... or you open excel and just get to work? I pick Excel. Access is great for saving forms and things like that but if you have 4 or 5 people passing it around and changes are being made how do you sync them up. No using ODBC is not an option as creating a database requires admin rights and IT approval etc.
The whole concept is broken. The correct thing to do is break a very large excel spreadsheet into more spreadsheets for different functions instead of having the company use just 1 for everyone. If the project is important enough yes Access with a SQL Server backend but it is hard to justify it when work needs to be done YESTERDAY and Excel is right there in front of you to just start it.
Slashdot used to be composed of college kids a decade ago with no work experience outside of school projects and sourceforge. I guess some still have not worked in an office yet who write such things or are just hopefully MS Office dies a horrible death:-)
I have a love hate relationship with it. I hate Word particularly. But I only use Office and not LibraOffice because I live in the real world. I support these apps for a living and need to know how they work and how to anticipate their weaknesses. Also I use it for the same reason everyone else uses it.
That is because everyone else uses it because everyone else uses it. It is the closed file formats. I can not guarantee my resume wont look like crap on someone elses computer who runs Office if I create it with LibraOffice. No I wont bother using both because why would I do that? To make a point or something? Business needs their files to look the same and run on suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees machines or they look incompetent.
Just because you do not use it does not mean it is dying. Some people can be brilliant but clueless idiots at the same time.
I think MS would be dumb to release Office for IOS as now people have no real reason to use WindowsCE and Windows Mobile anymore.
Apple will be thrilled. Many executives who are still using Windows mobile 6.5 phones because of pocket office or blackberries can not leave these platforms and buy Ipads and Iphones.
MS is just porting the crappy pocket versions of Office which are basically just office viewer applications which allow light editing. Not idea as a full blown Office solution but they are great on the go if you need to view a file and comment and make a few editing corrections or something dumb like that.
I do not know if AppleScript is supported on IOS, but MS could just port vbscript or VBA lite over if people want to run a few macros. It is not the full blown suite ported as that is on MacOSX only.
I remember reading about this a few months ago. The article is here.
Basically it is a very dumbed down version designed just to read office files on the go similiar to the pocket Office versions for WindowsCE of the past. They do not want adoption of IOS, but the pocket versions do encourage Windows and Office on desktop computer and kills smaller companies or Apple from getting a foothold in the market which would then threaten Windows.
MS has to be careful and walk a very fine line here. This would negate the reason to buy a Windows smart phone as the only reason people bothered with WindowsCE organizors over palm was the ability to read work documents. Now this gives a great reason for these executives and directors to buy an Iphone. Great now I can work on them too!
Office file formats are not going anyway. I got modded down here a few times saying I can't leave Office because I can not guarantee that my resume will look the same on someone elses computer running Office if I make it under LibraOffice. For that reason it will stay forever in business and MS Office is not going anyway as suppliers and customers will think you are incompentent if you send a document that looks funny on their computer.
So if I worked at MS I would only release Office for Windows 8 and Windows mobile and not care what Google and Apple do as I would have the ball no matter what.
I have noticed with IE 9 vistual studio ultimate slows it down and fucks up h.264 rendering at 1080p and other things. I traced it down to the webtester macro.Even disabling doenst fix the bug as I uninstalled VS ultimate on this laptop and speed returned. I tested on this very o0ld 1.6 ghz turion that I am typing on. It could be your anti virus software or proxies as I use Avast. I heard other slashdotters say IE 7 takes 5 minutes to open at work but FF is instant due to terrible proxy server configurations that FF ignores.
IE 9 is not a great browser per say. But it no longer sucks like it once did which is great if you are starting an e-commerce business like myself where the users will undoubtingly run IE. I can now ingore IE 6 at least and focus on IE 7 and greater. If you have crappy graphics on your netbook you might not notice a difference with IE 9 anyway as my desktop with an ati 5750 truly shines with hardware acceleration vs this old notebook.
Run a SFC/scannow or maybe you have malware? Unless this happens at work where a group policy object is telling IE to do something stupid
In this case, unlike MegaUpload this is not about piracy. It is about the FBI not aware of business needs and customers for the owner. My point of not shutting down a large factory because an employee smoked some weed in the parking lot stands. The FBI wouldn't do that but would arrest the employee and fine the employer but not take control of the factory for 2 days and jeopardizing its sustainability in the process.
Some lobbiests from Google and others should inform the politicians what is at stake. I hate them like you but they did stop SOPA after all which was formed so the FBI could do things like this and help the BSA and RIAA in the process.
Well there is not a single case of the DNS entry being deleted. This is because many of the 7 servers are overseas in places like Japan, Europe, and Aficra. If there has let me know?
However L3 communication and another ISP got hit. Same with MegaUpload. Of course one could argue MegaUpload sole purpose was piracy but I had no clue it was used for that. I used it just days before the shutdown to download a special.MSI that would let me run SWTOR without administrative access. This is not a pirated piece of software at all but rather a way for me to let my normal user account play a game. WHo cares about that if I have business on the line or my own job though.
SOPA in my opinion, was just a way to justify this. Seriously, the FEDS do not know business. If they need to do a bust that is fine and just lock that particular account and let the the ISP or cloud providor replicate the good guys to other servers first before obtaining evidence.My hope is this is just ignorance.
I mean if my business idea or JotForm's needs to freeze an account and let the FBI investigate we will be more than happy to let them. Just treat us like a factory or Marriot as the case of the scammer who got busted and let us continue to service the legal customers.
IE 10 is competive to Chrome and Firefox with support for more HTML 5 tags and CSS 3 support. Infact IE 10 supports the 3D effects of CSS 3 better than any other browser, but Chrome is catching up.
The only thing I see semi proprietary is XAML as MS loves this technology. I do believe it is openly published and standard but I am not too sure on that as I do not use it. Maybe another slashdotter can correct me as I am curious about this?
MS is not interested in proprietary extensions as Apple and Google have the marketshare. If MS pulls any crap like they did with IE 6 it will alienate developers. IE 10 from what I read is very open and standards compliant. THeir javascript engine is the most compliant one out there and beats every other browser shockingly enough.Chrome is the least compliant and they are the ones pushing webkit specific tags, SPDY, NACL, Dart, etc.
If you are referring to HTML5test.com, then you are not reallycomparing standards by the W3C.
All they are, are abunch of guys on email lists on what they would *like* to see and what the website author *thinks* should be standard. MS fucked up with the box model in IE 6 because it was new and no one implemented it before. They did their best guess in 2000 when it was in development to what they feel it would be like and they do not want to make that mistake again.
IE 10 has a score of 301 on html5test.com so it is a decent browser with great HTML 5 support. Remember IE is released only once a year compared to Chrome and Firefox so it will be behind if you wait 11 months after its release. It is evolving nicely and it is not a crap browser.
... did not say it is the best browser.:-)
But for corps and grandmas IE 9 is adaquite and modern and IE 10 will be very competitive with Chrome and Firefox this summer.
IE 9 was largely redone. It has a new Javascript engine, most the code in Trident was removed or refactored and the rest of the legacy bits are profiled to run in quirks IE 7 mode. Its graphics engine was redone with DirectX and DirectWrite.Yes IE 8 is legacy and getting crusty in internet time as it was just an updated IE 7 performance and bug fix.
IE 10 will go a step further as its memory and processing code is revamped to support HTML 5 webworkers and multicore CPUs. Its HTTP code is being redone to support compression on the server side so the server can do partial pre-rendering to make your content even faster. This is what Amazons tablet does. Chrome is trying its own approach with SPDY for something similiar.
It is not IE 6 anymore and even if you hate IE this is a great thing for webmasters and corporate IT drones. No more being tied to a particular version of IE and Windows. XP would have been dead in 2009 otherwise.
My only regret is the very slow IE 9 uptake and migration. It is the only semi modern browser and I hope IE 10 is a big hit even if I do not use it fully it will make my job easier.
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I just spent a weekend cleaning a rootkit from hulu off my system. Not even a restore point could get rid of it. Only a fresh format. Fuck hulu and their drm shit!
Its my computer and let me burn my iwn video cds.
So you have no problem being root kitted and having error messages when making legit dvds of your kids because you installed netflix and Hulu?
Chrome is new now just like IE 6 was when CSS was new. It was not an issue in 2001. Look what happened? W3c came up with a different box model than IE which meant missing padding and stretching, W3C decided to round with floats instead of doubles with pixels so now IE 6 places elements wrong too, many new features came out as IE was frozen in time. This lead to where it is today. Chrome is being just as stupid as the W3C could implement something differently than Chrome making IE and FF render the site differently.
So what is Google to do? Do an update to fix it? Oops that would break corporate apps and websites. Keep the -webkit CSS hacks? Now website developers have to write special rules for Chrome and corporations will only support particular browsers.
That is 2004 all over again.
For your comments on me being a corporate IE 6 fan ...
I hate IE 6 you kidding me?
Companies stick with IE 6 because the price tag to change each intranet app ranges from $200,000 to $1,000,000. What justification would be to upgrade? So employees can browse on Facebook more? Please ...
The CEOs job is to raise its stock price. Nothing more and using the latest technology for its employees lowers the share price and hurts productivity.
A windows 7 migration is expensive. I do consulting on this and Windows 7 is not as friendly with Active Directory as XP is. This could mean significance maintenance of clearing stale lingering AD objects, clearing ARP tables of shared mapped drives etc.The costs outweigh the benefits and accountants at work make the rules as it is a company's job to make money. Productivity is lost as employees at each site have to do IT stuff and manually setup each desktop ... you know Bob had to save his emails on his hard drive and loves his IE favorites etc.
So yes I am very concerned as Google's plan is clearly to use its own implementation and features to tie its Chrome apps and appstores to its browser. We have seen this before when IE was gaining traction and history will repeat itself.
Oh really?
Do you have IE 9 on your system? Go to a page with lots of graphics and like www.cnn.com and hit the up and down arrows in IE 9 and then compare it to Chrome? Notice the flickering? IE 9 is smooth if you have a decent graphics card.
Its smooth scrolling and hardware acceleration are nice. I still use Chrome as HTML 5 and the lack of addons are a little limiting but IE 10 will fix this.
Point is FF is a buggy piece of crap. Chrome is quirky and turning proprietary.
That leaves just IE. IE 9 is ok and not great. IE 10 will be competitive and has the most standard compliance out there if you do third party javascript acid tests. IE is not the big scary turd it was a decade ago and it is not proprietary anymore.
"They said that 10 years ago. The browser was to break the MS monopoly, obsolete the OS, really soon now everything would be running in the browser, yada, yada, yada.
Every few years, someone digs up a dead horse and runs it through town again."
You mean like salesforce.com, SAP, Google Docs, Gmail, Office 365, Iphone apps?
Google has proprietary CSS and Javascript as "enchancements". Yes webkit is open source but the CSS 3 implementations are not w3c standards. THey propose replacing HTTP with SPDY and already violate RFC implementations of http that can flood routers that are not configured properly in order to make it appear faster. Now everyone is doing it.
To me Chrome feels a lot like IE 5 or 5.5 where cool AJAX was introduced and IE at the time was a great browser that was faster and sleeker. However, proprietarness crept in at those releases just like it is with Chrome.
IE did its work in the corporate market with tie in. Chrome is doing it in the consumer market. Oddly, IE 10 is one of the most standards compliant browsers that is being developed. It is the total opposite of 10 years ago but Chrome will be stuck with many webmasters a decade from now who will wine like they do today with supporting IE 6.
You know what is ironic?
IE 9 and 10 are fully open standards compliant with XAML the only semi proprietary thing in it for Metro hooks. Oddly I am considering going to IE 10 when it comes out because it is the the most standards compliant, secure, and best browser and I am afraid to get locked into an eco system.
I feel I just walked into the twilight for even saying this! But I feel it is exactly 10 years ago all over again with IE 6 and that fear of the web being closed off. Those were some dark days.
Companies like Apple have proved that once they are in a dominate position can quickly turn into the bad guys. 10 years ago I never would have imagined Apple doing anything as crazy as they are today. Google just might pull it off as IE and FF usage is declining.
I wished the internet and free standards came popular before MS made a jagaurnut with Office. It is the file formats and having everything work and render properly across suppliers, workers, vendors, etc. If your document looks like crap that says a lot about you and the company.
This is the only reason why I and everyone uses office. If OpenDoc were a standard the world would be a much better place. Does Numbers save files in that format by default? Also MS does make great products in addition to crappy ones. Just like Windows 7 it is a mixed bag. It is great for consumers but shitty active directory that locks corporate desktops if a shared drive has any issues. Office has Excel and Access which both are awesome! Just Word and Outlook which are crap are bundled in. LibraOffice does not have a form driven database for non programmers like Access and its spreadsheet program is no where near Excel in functionality so these are reasons as well.
It was very close in 1997 when Steve Jobs came back. For several months MS did a case study and halted development of Mac Office until it could justify the costs. It was in the news. Apple announced it was ditching MacOS classic and were counting its option on what to do as it needed an NT competitor which later became MacOSX. MS said it would not support it outright at first.
Steve offer Bill Gates 15% of the company so he would have a vested interest in seeing Apple succeed and Office was critical. He wanted MacOSX on a NT kernel and he almost got his wish.
Anyway the mac verison of office lacks VBA support and Outlook. So it is still not that friendly in offices yet for these reasons.
This puts corporate customers in a tough spot.
If you had to endure hell for 12 years of IE 6 & XP why would you want to go through that again and pick an obsolete platform and now be stuck with Windows 7 and IE 8 specific intranet apps that lack HTML 5?
One of the great things about IE 10 and later is they all support standards so you are never locked into a version of IE anymore. Seriously corporations hate change and costs but they do want to upgrade when they are ready and not be held hostage by picking obsolete platforms and then apps that are tied to them?
If Metro had even a Windows task bar and overlaying Windows this could be doable. I fail to see METRO as anything but a failed cell phone gui great for media consumption one app at a time. That sucks for Office users.
Employers hate PDFs as they are not editable. HR and 85% of app submission software for their websites require Word formats.
Actually with Office 2007 and later they use OpenXML in docx files which is a large step in the right direction.Not as ideal as OpenDocs because it uses a tag for binary blobs, but it will guarantee the formatting and key things are consistent across multiple versions of Word. A table wont wrap around if the person has a low resolution as an example which was common in regular .doc files. Starting last year I stopped using .doc files and I figured those who couldn't read it are places I would not want to work anyway and are incompetent employers. Office 2003 can read them with a free add-on for years now.
If you think it is ok to send a pdf maybe they are right about you instead?
That is a no no in business as HR and management love to highlight and edit cover letters and resumes back and forth in internal emails. Ask any job coach or HR person? Something not editable is quickly deleted. Also look around at various job sites and internal resume submission apps on corporate websites? They all want Word docs. Sometimes they will request a PDF, but almost always will require a Word doc. Some will accept plain text too. But if you do that the formatting will be lost and you will look incompetent and it will go right in the virtual trash bin.
I only use Andriod so I did not know that bit. Apple does want MS to write Office because many executives will not use anything but Office. Steve Jobs made sure of this when he came back as much as he wished people would use iWorks. Consumers are more open to iWorks than proefessionals. I am not as I can not guarantee that my resume or other files will look the same in Office, but I guess some people do not care.
... ok?
Just call a programmer to come in and go over use and case studies with your needs instead, and wait 3 months for approval and have the IT director work with accounting in doing a cost analysis on how much return this would be to make this client/server sql app meanwhile you get fired because the boss wanted this work done in 1 week time only. ... or you open excel and just get to work? I pick Excel. Access is great for saving forms and things like that but if you have 4 or 5 people passing it around and changes are being made how do you sync them up. No using ODBC is not an option as creating a database requires admin rights and IT approval etc.
The whole concept is broken. The correct thing to do is break a very large excel spreadsheet into more spreadsheets for different functions instead of having the company use just 1 for everyone. If the project is important enough yes Access with a SQL Server backend but it is hard to justify it when work needs to be done YESTERDAY and Excel is right there in front of you to just start it.
Slashdot used to be composed of college kids a decade ago with no work experience outside of school projects and sourceforge. I guess some still have not worked in an office yet who write such things or are just hopefully MS Office dies a horrible death :-)
I have a love hate relationship with it. I hate Word particularly. But I only use Office and not LibraOffice because I live in the real world. I support these apps for a living and need to know how they work and how to anticipate their weaknesses. Also I use it for the same reason everyone else uses it.
That is because everyone else uses it because everyone else uses it. It is the closed file formats. I can not guarantee my resume wont look like crap on someone elses computer who runs Office if I create it with LibraOffice. No I wont bother using both because why would I do that? To make a point or something? Business needs their files to look the same and run on suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees machines or they look incompetent.
Just because you do not use it does not mean it is dying. Some people can be brilliant but clueless idiots at the same time.
Why not?
I think MS would be dumb to release Office for IOS as now people have no real reason to use WindowsCE and Windows Mobile anymore.
Apple will be thrilled. Many executives who are still using Windows mobile 6.5 phones because of pocket office or blackberries can not leave these platforms and buy Ipads and Iphones.
MS is just porting the crappy pocket versions of Office which are basically just office viewer applications which allow light editing. Not idea as a full blown Office solution but they are great on the go if you need to view a file and comment and make a few editing corrections or something dumb like that.
I do not know if AppleScript is supported on IOS, but MS could just port vbscript or VBA lite over if people want to run a few macros. It is not the full blown suite ported as that is on MacOSX only.
I remember reading about this a few months ago. The article is here.
Basically it is a very dumbed down version designed just to read office files on the go similiar to the pocket Office versions for WindowsCE of the past. They do not want adoption of IOS, but the pocket versions do encourage Windows and Office on desktop computer and kills smaller companies or Apple from getting a foothold in the market which would then threaten Windows.
MS has to be careful and walk a very fine line here. This would negate the reason to buy a Windows smart phone as the only reason people bothered with WindowsCE organizors over palm was the ability to read work documents. Now this gives a great reason for these executives and directors to buy an Iphone. Great now I can work on them too!
Office file formats are not going anyway. I got modded down here a few times saying I can't leave Office because I can not guarantee that my resume will look the same on someone elses computer running Office if I make it under LibraOffice. For that reason it will stay forever in business and MS Office is not going anyway as suppliers and customers will think you are incompentent if you send a document that looks funny on their computer.
So if I worked at MS I would only release Office for Windows 8 and Windows mobile and not care what Google and Apple do as I would have the ball no matter what.
I do not have that problem.
Strange?
I have noticed with IE 9 vistual studio ultimate slows it down and fucks up h.264 rendering at 1080p and other things. I traced it down to the webtester macro.Even disabling doenst fix the bug as I uninstalled VS ultimate on this laptop and speed returned. I tested on this very o0ld 1.6 ghz turion that I am typing on. It could be your anti virus software or proxies as I use Avast. I heard other slashdotters say IE 7 takes 5 minutes to open at work but FF is instant due to terrible proxy server configurations that FF ignores.
IE 9 is not a great browser per say. But it no longer sucks like it once did which is great if you are starting an e-commerce business like myself where the users will undoubtingly run IE. I can now ingore IE 6 at least and focus on IE 7 and greater. If you have crappy graphics on your netbook you might not notice a difference with IE 9 anyway as my desktop with an ati 5750 truly shines with hardware acceleration vs this old notebook.
Run a SFC /scannow or maybe you have malware? Unless this happens at work where a group policy object is telling IE to do something stupid
Yes that is true with corruption.
In this case, unlike MegaUpload this is not about piracy. It is about the FBI not aware of business needs and customers for the owner. My point of not shutting down a large factory because an employee smoked some weed in the parking lot stands. The FBI wouldn't do that but would arrest the employee and fine the employer but not take control of the factory for 2 days and jeopardizing its sustainability in the process.
Some lobbiests from Google and others should inform the politicians what is at stake. I hate them like you but they did stop SOPA after all which was formed so the FBI could do things like this and help the BSA and RIAA in the process.
Well there is not a single case of the DNS entry being deleted. This is because many of the 7 servers are overseas in places like Japan, Europe, and Aficra. If there has let me know?
However L3 communication and another ISP got hit. Same with MegaUpload. Of course one could argue MegaUpload sole purpose was piracy but I had no clue it was used for that. I used it just days before the shutdown to download a special .MSI that would let me run SWTOR without administrative access. This is not a pirated piece of software at all but rather a way for me to let my normal user account play a game. WHo cares about that if I have business on the line or my own job though.
SOPA in my opinion, was just a way to justify this. Seriously, the FEDS do not know business. If they need to do a bust that is fine and just lock that particular account and let the the ISP or cloud providor replicate the good guys to other servers first before obtaining evidence.My hope is this is just ignorance.
I mean if my business idea or JotForm's needs to freeze an account and let the FBI investigate we will be more than happy to let them. Just treat us like a factory or Marriot as the case of the scammer who got busted and let us continue to service the legal customers.
IE is standards compliant. At least IE 9 is.
IE 10 is competive to Chrome and Firefox with support for more HTML 5 tags and CSS 3 support. Infact IE 10 supports the 3D effects of CSS 3 better than any other browser, but Chrome is catching up.
It is not.
The only thing I see semi proprietary is XAML as MS loves this technology. I do believe it is openly published and standard but I am not too sure on that as I do not use it. Maybe another slashdotter can correct me as I am curious about this?
MS is not interested in proprietary extensions as Apple and Google have the marketshare. If MS pulls any crap like they did with IE 6 it will alienate developers. IE 10 from what I read is very open and standards compliant. THeir javascript engine is the most compliant one out there and beats every other browser shockingly enough.Chrome is the least compliant and they are the ones pushing webkit specific tags, SPDY, NACL, Dart, etc.
If you are referring to HTML5test.com, then you are not reallycomparing standards by the W3C.
All they are, are abunch of guys on email lists on what they would *like* to see and what the website author *thinks* should be standard. MS fucked up with the box model in IE 6 because it was new and no one implemented it before. They did their best guess in 2000 when it was in development to what they feel it would be like and they do not want to make that mistake again.
IE 10 has a score of 301 on html5test.com so it is a decent browser with great HTML 5 support. Remember IE is released only once a year compared to Chrome and Firefox so it will be behind if you wait 11 months after its release. It is evolving nicely and it is not a crap browser.
But for corps and grandmas IE 9 is adaquite and modern and IE 10 will be very competitive with Chrome and Firefox this summer.
IE 9 was largely redone. It has a new Javascript engine, most the code in Trident was removed or refactored and the rest of the legacy bits are profiled to run in quirks IE 7 mode. Its graphics engine was redone with DirectX and DirectWrite.Yes IE 8 is legacy and getting crusty in internet time as it was just an updated IE 7 performance and bug fix.
IE 10 will go a step further as its memory and processing code is revamped to support HTML 5 webworkers and multicore CPUs. Its HTTP code is being redone to support compression on the server side so the server can do partial pre-rendering to make your content even faster. This is what Amazons tablet does. Chrome is trying its own approach with SPDY for something similiar.
It is not IE 6 anymore and even if you hate IE this is a great thing for webmasters and corporate IT drones. No more being tied to a particular version of IE and Windows. XP would have been dead in 2009 otherwise.
My only regret is the very slow IE 9 uptake and migration. It is the only semi modern browser and I hope IE 10 is a big hit even if I do not use it fully it will make my job easier.