IE8 To Make Tender Chickens

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 10:31 PM

"The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing."

WS-* == Windows Services Dash Star?

Monday, February 05, 2007 at 05:09 AM

It's that bad.

Shysters

Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 08:56 AM

Talk about "close to home"

This word - "Web" - I do not think it means what you think it means.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 03:47 PM

Somebody pinch me; this must be a nightmare.

Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 05:13 AM

A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.

The Battle of the Less Clueless

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 05:03 PM

IronPython vs. JPython: who cares?

The factors that led them to choose IE..

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 07:09 AM

Microsoft is so completely out of touch with reality it hurts.

Weapons and Coding

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 at 08:25 AM

Wherein we predict that whoever decides to take dynamic languages seriously will win the interpreted bytecode market.

Don't give Microsoft the remote control

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 07:11 PM / badvista.fsf.org

Short and exceptionally well written take on Microsoft's Vista DRM strategy. I'm really enjoying the FSF going on the offensive with sites targeting very specific issues (badvista.fsf.org).

The day the music died

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 01:43 AM / diveintomark.org

"Apple calls these songs 'iTunes Plus', because it sounds so much better than calling everything else 'iTunes Minus.'"

That Vista Thud is the sound of executive layoffs

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 05:21 PM / cincomsmalltalk.com

eWeek: "... Nearly every Microsoft executive associated with the Windows Vista launch has left the company. Vista has proven to be a career-ending enterprise ..."

Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets”

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 04:37 PM / diveintomark.org

Mark contributes the obligatory fisking.

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid

Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 03:21 PM / daringfireball.net

"Welcome to Microsoft."

USPTO Patent Database Search Results: Yahoo!

Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 07:52 PM / patft.uspto.gov

96 patents with assignee name "Yahoo! Inc"

Ballmer: I'm completely out of ideas

Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 10:23 AM / fakesteve.blogspot.com

"... Ballmer is an old-school kind of guy. He's not really a tech guy. [...] He's a Big Three automaker kind of guy. And this is a Big Three move. It's Ford buying Jaguar and Land Rover and Volvo because they can't think of anything else to do."

Dear IE6, I hate you

Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 01:18 AM / contrast.ie

"There comes a time in every old browser’s life to pack up shop and, well, fuck off. This time has come and gone for IE6 ..." Also: "42% of global users are still browsing the web with IE6."

Microsoft Boy Announces His School Homework

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 11:34 PM / simple-talk.com

"What is catching users' eyes? Legibility, correctness, conciseness…. the list goes on and on. Simply put, this history essay is a significant release for me – one that builds on all of the great things that I was able to deliver last year [...]"

“The Bug Count Also Rises” by John Browne

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 11:04 PM / workpump.com

"Hernando who worked down the hall and who was large with microbrews came to him and told him that the ship day was upon them but the bugs were not yet out. The bugs which were always there even when you were in Cafes late at night sipping a ..."

What should Microsoft do instead?

Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 04:43 PM / dbaron.org

Holy crap, this is insane. Just let people run IE6 and IE7 as separate standalone browsers side-by-side with IE8. As James said in my previous post, they can even rebrand it as "Intranet Explorer" :)

The Standard Trolls

Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 09:47 AM / robweir.com

Microsoft missing the point with regards to "standards"? Inconceivable! Every time I read stuff like this I wonder if it's intellectual dishonesty or if the folks over at MS are really this ignorant. You have to lean toward dishonesty here, I think.

Run Internet Explorer 5/6/7 Natively in OS X

Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 06:42 AM / macapper.com

This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.

WS-* is to REST as Theory is to Practice

Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 11:17 AM / 25hoursaday.com

Dare talks about his transition from WS-* to REST proponent. This mirrors a lot of people's experience, including my own.

Microsoft 'evidence' turns against them [tectonic.co.za]

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 09:53 AM / tectonic.co.za

"The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does."

Relevance: Silverlight, the DLR, and thee

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 09:42 AM / relevancellc.com

"The general thrust of this argument is that having a full-fledge rich-windowing experience in the browser is going to put a stop to all that amateurish mucking around with JavaScript and the DOM. ... that’s hogwash."

Charles Nutter - Big Plans [headius.blogspot.com]

Monday, May 14, 2007 at 05:35 PM / headius.blogspot.com

"And yes, I've seen the Microsoft news ... If Sun did something like this I'd resign."

Dell joins the Microsoft-Novell alliance, hopes for Windows / Linux harmony

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 03:01 PM / engadget.com

I've read the following line five times but it refuses to compute: "... and now it sounds like Dell will be buying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft ..." Huh? Looks like I should have further researched the MS/Novel deal.

Silverlight trumps Web Standards (and Flex)…

Sunday, May 06, 2007 at 03:42 PM / allthelayers.com

"As for me, I’ll take some more Microsoft kool-aid, please." -- I said almost exactly those same words in 1997 regarding Microsoft's OS/Browser integration (I'm quoted in an article on C|Net as proof). There's nothing I regret saying more.

Did Microsoft just patent sudo?

Friday, May 04, 2007 at 08:58 AM / ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com

What's next? which(1)?

Silly season [diveintomark.org]

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 09:30 PM / diveintomark.org

"Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea?"

How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft

Friday, March 09, 2007 at 02:49 AM / blogs.sun.com

"It looks like you are trying to do a regular expression. Do you need some help with that?"

Fun with Vista's Speed Recognition [innoq.com]

Friday, February 16, 2007 at 02:31 AM / innoq.com

Press caps locks. Press caps lock. PRESS CAPS LOCK! Press capital I. Delete I. Press capital I. DELETE I SCROLL THIS CONFLICT. DELETE ADULT SCROLLS CONFLICT FOR C ... THANK YOU! Delete THINK YOU.

Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day."

Friday, February 02, 2007 at 02:35 PM / simonwillison.net

"Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."

W3C Markup Validator Results for "You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)"

Monday, January 22, 2007 at 03:40 PM / validator.w3.org

Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I'm just being mean now -- ignore me. no but seriously.)

Microsoft exec called software developers 'pawns'

Tuesday, January 09, 2007 at 08:46 AM / computerworld.com

"I mean, all through this presentation previously, I talked about how you're using the pawns and you're going to screw them if they don't do what you want, and dah-dah-dah. You can't let them feel like that." and "So you can't let them feel like pawns, no

demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible Microsoft HTML

Friday, January 05, 2007 at 02:47 AM / fourmilab.ch

"The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform."

IEs4Linux

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 04:09 PM / tatanka.com.br

Whose going to get this running on OS X? I guess it doesn't really matter. I can always X over to a Linux box...

Whatever Happened To The Zune?

Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 01:55 AM / medialoper.com

"I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking."

SeamlessRDP

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 01:27 PM / cendio.com

Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel's Coherence Mode for RDP.

Cocoa Remote Desktop

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 01:24 PM / cord.sourceforge.net

A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.

Leo Laporte hates the Zune! (video)

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 09:55 PM / youtube.com

I need to get back into following free culture. The anti-DRM sentiment is unprecedented.

The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World

Monday, December 11, 2006 at 03:56 PM / ayende.com

I'm sorry but it is just baffling to me how developers and cough evangelists can put up with this kind of behavior as being the sort-of default mode of operation at MS. The company needs to consider massive sweeping changes in the way they treat develop

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft

Friday, December 08, 2006 at 03:08 PM / weblog.infoworld.com

I guess this could be good thing. Good people have a tendency of being taken advantage of in ways they wouldn't expect at MS though so I have to give the whole deal a respectful thumbs-down.

Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management

Friday, December 08, 2006 at 08:50 AM / cogito.blogthing.com

"Dependency management is probably the most important contribution of open source to software engineering." -- I don't know about that but it's definitely up there. It's mind boggling that MS hasn't developed some form of package management.

UniveRSS - a 3D Vista RSS reader

Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 02:55 PM / microsoft.com

Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!

Microsoft Vista and .NET

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 05:11 AM / grimes.demon.co.uk

They ripped a bunch of .NET code out of Vista, replacing it with C. Interesting.

Comic Sans was a mistake

Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 06:12 PM / connare.com

What a surprise!

Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy

Sunday, October 09, 2005 at 11:19 AM / boingboing.net

I miss this Cory Doctorow: "...a stupid DRM standard for suck-ass next-gen DVDs, arguing that Microsoft's sellout suck-ass next-gen HD-DVDs are better."

Microsoft blames Sun

Friday, September 23, 2005 at 07:52 AM / jtauber.com

haha. this cracked me up...

Squawkbox: Corporate Use of MSN Spaces-- check out CNBC. Rant alert

Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 12:41 PM / redmonk.com

Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again...

Microsoft makes web feeds easier

Friday, June 24, 2005 at 09:51 PM / news.bbc.co.uk

Looks like RSS will finally be coming to "everyone else" now.

Microsoft releases under Creative Commons ShareAlike

Friday, June 24, 2005 at 01:50 PM / lessig.org

Holy shit Microsoft is copylefting stuff. What's going on?

Greasemonkey FUD

Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 08:56 AM / simon.incutio.com

Hi, we're Forrester Research, a division of Microsoft. -- I really didn't expect Firefox to get this much FUD thrown at it.

IronPython 0.7.1 is released to the world!

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 at 12:43 AM / blogs.msdn.com

Jim Hugunin announces Microsoft's first official release of IronPython. Let's be absolutely clear: Microsoft just released a respected free software project.

MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software over Microsoft

Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 06:17 PM / eweek.com

I'm seriously considering considering moving to Brazil. That country is really starting to get their shit together and the gov seems close to the people.

Microsoft to Demo at EclipseCon 2005!

Monday, February 28, 2005 at 02:10 PM / oneclipse.com

wtf: "Visual Studio lead program manager Jason Weber to show how to build extensions for Microsoft's IDE."

Microsoft's first explicit anti-GNU/Linux ad

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 02:15 PM / www-swiss.ai.mit.edu

From Oct 23, 2000 issue of the German language magazine c't

Bill Gates and other communists

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 03:30 PM / news.com.com

Stallman cutting through the bullshit.

R.I.P. Microsoft?

Friday, February 11, 2005 at 10:52 PM / abcnews.go.com

That's a big prediction for having a "bad smell" but whatever...

Gartner urges caution before downloading Firefox

Friday, February 11, 2005 at 05:35 PM / computerworld.com

Redefining the concept of making sense: "some of the factors that make Firefox more appealing than Internet Explorer are likely to go away as the browser gets to be more popular"

Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates

Friday, February 11, 2005 at 05:23 PM / theregister.co.uk

That about nails it.

Linux in Government: Another Look at Linux in the MS Infrastructure

Monday, January 31, 2005 at 01:43 PM / linuxjournal.com

Samba eating Microsoft's lunch. I smell a patent infingement case...

MSFT refuses to give 15 XP licenses for tsunami relief related work

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 02:42 AM / lug.lk

I almost puked when I read this. I hope there's just been a mix up or something.

Gizmodo Gates Interview Part Four: Communists and DRM

Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 06:27 PM / gizmodo.com

Gates backpetals on the previous "creative communist" remarks and talks about DRM as a speedbump... caugh strawman caugh

Truth and Bill Gates

Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 02:14 PM / dangillmor.typepad.com

Dan Gillmor comments on Gates' creative communist statements..

We're Creative Commonists, Bill

Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 02:13 PM / wired.com

Wired's Katie Dean on the recent Creative Communist fiasco.

Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Communists

Thursday, January 06, 2005 at 08:11 AM / boingboing.net

At least we got a cool flag out of the ordeal..

Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk

Monday, December 27, 2004 at 02:55 PM / boingboing.net

Buy it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.

What's Next for Google

Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 01:22 AM / technologyreview.com

Is google the next netscape?

Microsoft Attempts To Shutdown MacSlash

Friday, December 17, 2004 at 04:42 PM / macslash.org

dumb.

New file system (WinFS) has long road to Windows

Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 01:52 AM / news.com.com

It's not going to happen you guys...

MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs

Friday, December 03, 2004 at 07:28 AM / boingboing.net

BoingBoing tests the MSN blogs censors..

Netcraft Results for beta.search.msn.com

Friday, November 12, 2004 at 03:40 PM / uptime.netcraft.com

Maybe Balmer could include the fact that msn search runs on Linux in his next "Get The Facts" campaign.

Is Microsoft using 'Halo 2' to thwart Xbox hackers?

Friday, November 12, 2004 at 09:21 AM / news.com.com

How to be wrong: "I would argue that Xbox Live is a great experience for the end user precisely because it's a closed, controlled environment, and anything that threatens that is a real concern for Microsoft."

Why I Like Windows

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 10:49 PM / blogs.msdn.com

IE team on Firefox 1.0 release. The comments have me rolling on the floor. I can't believe microsoft is letting these guys keep comments on.

Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?

Monday, November 08, 2004 at 02:51 AM / eweek.com

Microsoft is claiming some form of IP rights over "a total of 130 protocols which Microsoft is offering for license." The list includes TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Bluetooth, FTP, HTTP, SSL, etc. Looks like a new FUD strategy.

stopie.com

Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 06:15 AM / stopie.com

"Help stop Internet Explorer, the world's most popular and worst internet browser."

Ballmer: Comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 02:07 PM / microsoft.com

for some reason, anytime I'm reading ballmer, I always get that charlie-brown-on-the-phone-voice in my head. -- Wah wah.. Wah wah wah wah, wah wah...

Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related

Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 11:17 PM / slashdot.org

Dell Exec: "Spyware installed on roughly 90% of computers."

Can a resurrected Netscape compete with IE?

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 09:53 PM / news.com.com

No. Netscape as a brand/browser is irrelevant. Anyone with a cluestick care to drop by cnet and whap those monkeys around a bit? Some decent history here though.

Microsoft warns of 22 new security flaws

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 09:36 PM / news.com.com

come on now.. this is silly. leave windows. it's sunny and warm and beautiful over here.

The Browser Wars Are Back?

Saturday, October 09, 2004 at 10:30 AM / slashdot.org

yes. they are. IE is the new Netscape 4.7.

Linux cannot compete with Longhorn

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 at 04:05 PM / newsforge.com

History of WinFS (hint: OFS)

Red Hat Executives Blog: The Latest Joke from Redmond

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 04:44 PM / blogs.redhat.com

Red Hat Exec Michael Tieman's comments on Microsoft's weird move into the open source mindview.

A New Program for the Enterprise

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:51 PM / baselinemag.com

OMFG Python is reaching critical mass.

Microsoft slammed over misleading Windows Linux claims

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:49 PM / theinquirer.net

"The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between Linux running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows Server 2003 image running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips." Since when are mainframe chips only 10 times more expensive than x86 chips?

Backdoor dynamic languages

Monday, August 23, 2004 at 08:18 AM / sauria.com

Ted Leung explores recent developments that seem to suggest that both Sun and Microsoft might be thinking about hijacking Python. If Jython and IronPython grow large followings, the library support has split three ways: Standard Python Libraries, Java Lib

New, unpatched Windows XP will be wormy within 20 minutes of being connected to net

Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 12:32 PM / boingboing.net

haha. just horrible.

In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter

Friday, August 13, 2004 at 08:30 AM / nytimes.com

New York Times talking about people moving away from IE. It may finally be happening...

First look at MSN blogs

Monday, August 09, 2004 at 03:30 AM / philringnalda.com

Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!

How to Remove Internet Explorer

Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 10:22 PM / crackbaby.com

Installing Linux might be a bit easier..