Issues

Have you all had a nice, enjoyable read of this?: Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP over at Gizmodo. It’s replete with a carefully manicured forum of breathlessly drippy Mac fan people (mainly boys) loving every second of Bill Gate’s very eloquent ‘alleged’ feedback memo to the Windows dev arm about the [...]

Stupid Microsoft has yet again shitted the web dev community off with recent announcements about how IE8 will pass the Acid 2 test. Not that that’s the bad thing. The Acid 2 test is like the grand-daddy of browser rendering tests, something that Microsoft has completely ignored despite continual and unabated pleading from the web [...]

Yeah, Microsoft did this really fucked thing where they changed their email layout renderer in Outlook 2007 from the HTML renderer in IE6, to the layout renderer of Word. There was no real justification for it and the line from MS was ‘Our customers wanted something that rendered layouts the same in their email as [...]

In today’s 21st century, electro-networked-decentric world, governed by stuffy, rich old bastards who aren’t in the government or a part of society, whose attitudes toward the global challenges of tomorrow are explicitly ,’not their problem’, it doesn’t surprise me even slightly that at the ‘Fundamentos Web 2007‘, the interoperability presentations were all conducted on different [...]

Getting such massive charges to stick to any global corporation is no mean feat. But the fact that the charges have actually stuck, and then again on appeal, mean that MS are nothing other than guilty as sin of systemic corporate bastardry – kudos Ballmer and Gates. This is not by any means news – [...]

I was reading this story that Slashdot had linked to, “How does Gates shape up as a seer?“, mainly for a laugh because Bill’s predictions are always so self-centric, or he predicts stuff that is already happening. But there was something he predicted that struck a chord with me, and it was a gutsy time [...]