Today the browser Internet Explorer is retired by Microsoft after 27 years of service. At the time when I stopped using it in 2003, Internet Explorer had reached it’s peak with 95% of the users. A lifespan of almost three decades is unfathomable long in the world of software.
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Never thought I’d see the day when Microsoft pulls the plug on Internet Explorer. If I had told anyone about this ten years ago, they would laugh out loud and say that it would be too absurd to take seriously.
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One of the things that makes Firefox superior for web development is the possibility to use great addons. Here are some of my favorites.
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The first sharp version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at Microsoft’s MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. The last months have seen a harsh public humiliation against the old version 6 where large sites actually warned users that they were using deprecated software.
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There’s a new browser in town. Apart from being a good song by VNV Nation, Chrome is a new browser developed by Google.
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Once again the MIX conference is being arranged at the Venetian in Las Vegas, just as last year. One of the most interesting announcements this far is the release of IE8 beta 1. Judging from the interstellar distance in time between IE6 and IE7, this is a big step forward.
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Recently Microsoft announced that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer will feature a special meta element, which will trigger the standards mode.
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I started creating web pages using NCSA Mosaic in 1994. The first version had been released in November 1993, being the first graphic-oriented browser which reached widespread popularity.
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Many software companies are infamous for their product names, and Microsoft is no exception. After the WinFX mess last year, my latest favorite is “.NET 3.0” which really is the .NET 2.0 framework with a few addons.
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Today the WWDC 2007 was held in San Francisco and the keynote was delivered by Steve Jobs. I followed the transcript live by MacRumors thanks to a blogger in the audience, and afterwards the keynote was made available as Quicktime stream.
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