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IE chauvinism creates hidden costs: IE chauvinism creates hidden costsHey![b]In IT no-one gives a damn about standards.[/b]There are IT people and shops that do care about standards and vendor lock-in and some of the issues you engineering types face. It's just harder to find them. I'd rule out anyone that's a MSFT Solution...; Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Strategy, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, standards, Web browser, information technology, IE chauvinism; Discussion threads 2006-02-01
IE chauvinism creates hidden costs: Businesses generally use web services in communications and sales functions. As a result you'd expect the larger users to bend over backwards to make sure their sites worked with all major browsers, but many don't. There are several kinds of costs to this behavior - costs that don't show on...; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer; Blog posts 2006-02-01

Office vs. Office: Office vs. OfficeI hate OutlookI found it clunky and hard to use. Ditched it long ago. And Exchange, well I won't even go near that stuff. POS software if you ask me. It just doesn't function up to par to others like GroupWise for example.What I think Micrsoft has is...; Tags: Groupware, GroupWise 7, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-03-30
Responding to Readers: My January 30th blog was about the boot time controversy. As various people pointed out this is really a complete non issue that somehow became a metric favoring Windows over Linux simply because Microsoft made the early appearance of the login screen a design goal for Windows/XP. What I...; Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Unix, attack, Linux; Blog posts 2006-02-06