Tagged with microsoft

Microsoft updates English language – only 62MB

We’d just got home from work and were settling in for a nice bit of internet related procrastination when I heard a yelp of displeasure from Joe. He’d loaded up his machine and got a little message from Windows Vista 64 bit saying that some new critical updates were ready to install: Fair enough, so [...]
Published in Technology on Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Internet hype technology of the week: Silverlight

Microsoft is amazing. WPF/E has been around for ages. They give it a fancy name and run a keynote about it at MIX and suddenly it’s the biggest thing to hit (Microsoft) web development since someone came up with a catchy name for ajax. This week it seems like its the only thing that anyone [...]
Published in Web development on Saturday, May 19th, 2007

IE bug logging database not being reopened

I was a bit disappointed when I read that public IE bug database isn’t being reopened. The reason given was that the volume of unusable bug reports submitted far outweighed the useful stuff. Apparently some people used it to tell the team how much they hate IE. :) I can understand that being a problem [...]
Published in Browsers on Sunday, May 13th, 2007