Vista has the most polished “Reliability Monitor” ever. Now why on earth would they need one of those?
Hat tip: Michael.
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Happy Spam-Solved Day!
Happy Spam Solved Day!
“Two years from now, spam will be solved”, promised Microsoft’s Bill Gates – two years ago today. Hooray!
IE7 fulfills expectations
IE 7 is neither CSS1 nor CSS2 compliant, and also fails the ACID test. The tabbed browsing features are completely lame and cannot be configured. For instance, it’s impossible to easily open a link to the same server in another tab, and it’s impossible to prevent it opening another tab when following a link to another server. #
Disappointed, but hardly surprised. IE’s market share has dropped by maybe 10% overall in the past few years since the emergence of Phoenix Firebird Firefox, but unfortunately I suspect that even given the next apparently bug-ridden release of IE, it’ll still maintain a vast majority share – thus stifling innovation and thwarting the adoption of standards in web development.
This is why monopolies are bad folks – good technology suffers, to the benefit of “popular” bad technology…
Understanding Microsoft
From an interview with Microsoft’s General Manager of Platform Strategy, Michael Taylor:
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer space to do malicious things? #
8-10 years? Hmm…
In 1988, the Morris worm used a buffer overflow in a Unix program called fingerd to propagate itself over the Internet. Even after this incident, buffer overflows were virtually ignored as security issue. #
Somehow that explains a great many things.
Acid Test 2
Opera’s CTO has a challenge for Microsoft. He wants to create a new version of the Acid test to ensure that when IE7 is released it lives up to Microsoft’s hype, and does the Web a favour in the process
Opera lays down Acid2 challenge
IE is broken. Has been for years. It doesn’t support half of the features it claims to, and others are seriously broken.
Microsoft have committed themselves to resolving these issues, and working towards interoperability. This sounds familiar, and they have failed to deliver so many times in the past.
So the Web Community is going to help them. Webstandards.org will be hosting the Acid2 Test Suite for CSS 2.1, as soon as it’s completed. This test suite will consist of standards-compliant markup which any browser worth its salt should be able to render correctly.
So the IE developers will know exactly what they need to fix before releasing the long-awaited IE7. What could possibly go wrong…