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I've read some stories that Microsoft employees really feel the company is being mismanaged because Windows Vista (once called Longhorn) was supposed to come out back in 2004 or something like that.
Internet Explorer 7, they say, is a mess. It renders pages wrong and has bug fixes that actually might cause a nightmare and still isn't anywhere close to being done.
Since IE 6 has a ton of quirks and web developers have been employing tricks to work around the bugs for years, fixing them actually might cause millions of pages that IE 6 displays correctly to not display correctly in IE 7.
Microsoft also wanted to compete with the iPod and released their own proprietary music format. It is used by most of the non-iPod MP3 players, and iPods still have 80%+ of the market. Music download services such as Napster, which lost $17 million in 2005, blames Microsoft for their music format and failure to get hardware vendors to implement things the same.
And today I read this (saw it at slashdot) ...
What the heck is this??
"Since losing the patent case filed by Eolas, Microsoft has to change radically the way IE works with a lot of content, especially video and other ActiveX controls. eWEEK is reporting that Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads."
So if you don't start tweaking your site, in 60 days it isn't going to work right for people who update Internet Explorer?
Internet Explorer 7, they say, is a mess. It renders pages wrong and has bug fixes that actually might cause a nightmare and still isn't anywhere close to being done.
Since IE 6 has a ton of quirks and web developers have been employing tricks to work around the bugs for years, fixing them actually might cause millions of pages that IE 6 displays correctly to not display correctly in IE 7.
Microsoft also wanted to compete with the iPod and released their own proprietary music format. It is used by most of the non-iPod MP3 players, and iPods still have 80%+ of the market. Music download services such as Napster, which lost $17 million in 2005, blames Microsoft for their music format and failure to get hardware vendors to implement things the same.
And today I read this (saw it at slashdot) ...
What the heck is this??
"Since losing the patent case filed by Eolas, Microsoft has to change radically the way IE works with a lot of content, especially video and other ActiveX controls. eWEEK is reporting that Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads."
So if you don't start tweaking your site, in 60 days it isn't going to work right for people who update Internet Explorer?
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