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Standards and pragmatism in web browsers

Standards and pragmatism in web browsersJoel nailed it.Making websites at that worked cross browser has never had ANYTHING to do with standards. [b]Ever[/b]. The collective sigh of relief when Netscape was finally laid to rest was almost audible.Joel is not alone with this conviction. Every developer and GUI designer in...

Tags: Web browsers, Joel, Web browser, pragmatism, standards

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Microsoft gains tech computing toehold

Microsoft gains tech computing toeholdInformed source[i]And for Saifur Rahman, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, using Linux would have required new expertise.[/i]...[i]In particular, his students use the Matlab mathematical calculation and data-processing software on Windows. Matlab on the desktop can tap into Matlab on the...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, Pragmatism, Zealotry, Matlab, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-09

Additional Resources

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??XPEOMDon't you know?He swears by BeOS!What "annual tax" are you refering to?[i]having to pay an annual tax to Microsoft for software updates[/i]I receive my updates for free. How do those on the OLPC unit differ?So what would they run on it?Vista? LOLRather extreme positionFundamentalists are always...

Tags: Operating systems, Third-World government, Fundamentalists, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux?, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Standards and pragmatism in web browsers

Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...

Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Linux security guru joins Microsoft

Crispin Cowan, the Linux security expert behind StackGard, the Immunix Linux distro and AppArmor, has joined the Windows security team. In a blog post last week, Microsoft's Michael Howard, author of Writing Secure Code, wrote: For those of you who don't know Crispin, Crispin is responsible...

Tags: Team, Novell AppArmor, Microsoft Corp., Howard, Linux, Team Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-21

The post Davenport-McAfee slugfest: the Twits speak

n. r.v. twit·ted, twit·ting, twits To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See Synonyms at ridicule. 1. The act or an instance of twitting. 2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt. ...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Davenport Co., Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-11

The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007

Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Don't diss Sun-Microsoft hardware alliance

The Sun-Microsoft link-up is good business. It means almost nothing to open source. I say almost because the something it does mean is good. Microsoft's agreement to accomodate Solaris in its virtualization schemes will help those with OpenSolaris live in a mixed-OS world. But...

Tags: Alliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-13

iPhone crosses the 1 million mark, but what about the 10 million mark?

iPhone crosses the 1 million mark, but what about the 10 million mark?Deja vu all over again.Typical assumptions regarding Apple. That their success is the result of hype.Perhaps the iPhone has sold a million phones in 74 days because it's one h hell of a product. If that is the...

Tags: marketshare, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2007-09-11

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Are Microsoft's patent lawyers really this dumb?

Are Microsoft's patent lawyers really this dumb?Can't be stoppedTrump card or not, Microsoft cannot stop the rapid pace of Linux/FOSS adoption. The patent situation only really applies to the U.S. The MS patent saber-rattling is largely meaningless outside the U.S.I don't think MS and their lawyers really understand the FOSS...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., F/OSS, Free Software Foundation, GPL-3, open source

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Is Web 2.0 over? TechCrunch bails on startups

TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal? I asked earlier this month.Michael Arrington, aka TechCrunch, now gives us the answer:Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.Are congratulations in order? Hardly.Arrington “explains” his editorial about face with typical TechCrunch pragmatism:Since FC...

Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Self-Promotion, Business Models, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-03-31

New GPLv3 draft takes aim at Microsoft/Novell but loosens crypto restrictions

The Free Software Foundation FSF released the long-awaited third draft of the GNU General Public License GPL today. The draft was due out quite a bit earlier but was delayed after the Novell/Microsoft patent deal:We offer our apologies to the community for the delay in releasing Draft 3. Our original...

Tags: GPL, GPL-covered program, Novell Inc., agreement, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Google: Backpedaling away from Net neutrality stance?

GigaOms Drew Clark makes a convincing case that Google is backing off of its stance as Net neutrality champion. Clark quotes Google Senior Policy Counsel Andrew McLaughlin saying: “Net neutrality will ultimately be solved by competition in...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Illegally downloading collegians, I hope you get what you deserve

Illegally downloading collegians, I hope you get what you deserveLables Over-charging for yearsI believe that piracy is wrong and that people should not be downloading copyrighted works without paying. However, the Big lables have been overcharging for music since the CD became ubiquitous. They make charge us for the...

Tags: music, CD, piracy

Discussion threads 2007-02-22

Oracle Unlimited and Fusion Futures

Tomorrow, Jan. 31, Oracle will host a major shindig in New York intended to further define its product plans for the core products -- PeopleSoft, Oracle E-business Suite, JD Edwards, and Siebel -- that it is maintaining and upgrading as part of its Applications Unlimited program. Its easy to say...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Will Web 3.0 be in the green?

The Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco may have been about "scraping money off the table as the money–VCs, IAC, Fox Interactive, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others–were auditioning startups in the hallways and in private rooms,” as fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Farber notes, but at the Ad:Tech conference...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Culture, Google, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Click Fraud, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, YouTube, Amateur Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Metrics

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Social media disconnect: Where is the (big) money?

Excitement for social media has been in full throttle in NYC this fall.From Advertising Week to Shop.org to the IAB Summit to Ad:Tech, media properties both traditional and new, corporate marketers and interactive agencies have been happily proclaiming that “users are in control,” and that’s a good thing!At the various...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Metrics

Blog posts 2006-11-12

An early skirmish in the HD DVD wars

Nine months ago, Intel and Microsoft ended their HD DVD agnosticism and decided to officially support the HD-DVD format over Blu-Ray, a format backed by Sony that had garnered the support of most movie studios and hardware manufacturers. In a blog post on the subject, I called...

Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray disc

Blog posts 2006-07-14