According to new figures from Net Applications, both Firefox and Google Chrome continue to wrestle away market share from long time leader Internet Explorer, with Chrome seeing the strongest growth. Chrome saw over 10 percent growth to reach 3.58 percent market share, while Firefox continued its ascent moving to 24.07 percent. Apple’s Safari still remains [...]
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Microsoft and MySpace in talks over music service
According to AllthingsDigital, Microsoft is in early talks with MySpace in an effort to have MySpace Music tied-in with the MSN online portal. Microsoft has its own service, MSN Music, but traffic ranks significantly lower than MySpace Music and Microsoft has been looking to kill off the service for some time. As of April, AOL [...]
Disable accelerators feature in IE8
To disable accelerators in IE8 (stop the blue arrow when high lighting text) perform the following steps 1. Start Internet Explorer 8. 2. Click Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced 3. Then uncheck the box for Display Accelerator button on selection, under Browsing. 4. Click Apply and OK.
Microsoft blocked from selling Word
In a giant decision 13th August 2009, a federal district court judge has ruled against Microsoft, and told the software company it must stop selling the extremely popular Word word processing software in the United States. The victor company, i4i, has only 30 employees but claims Microsoft violated a patent pertaining to Extensible Markup Language [...]
Microsoft patches 23 vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released eight patches for Office and Internet Explorer. The patches will fix more than 23 vulnerabilities, five have been labelled as critical. They have fixed the zero day flaw in its Excel spreadsheet package that was discovered back in February 2009
Microsoft discontinues Encarta
Microsoft is shutting down its Encarta encyclopedia Web sites and will also discontinue its Student and Premium Encarta software products. “The category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed,” reads a note explaining the move on the MSN Encarta Web site. “People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years [...]
Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8
The Mix09 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (March 18-20), which caters to both designers and web developers alike, has been chosen as the setting for Microsoft’s next-generation Web browser launch, Internet Explorer 8. The launch follows the release of Silverlight beta and Expression Blend 3, a web design and prototyping tool preview. Microsoft shows signs [...]
Microsoft sues TomTom over patent claims
Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against TomTom, accusing the navigation company of infringing on a number of patents. The dispute involves eight individual patents, with three relating to the use of a Linux kernel. Microsoft claims to have engaged the Dutch company for more than a year, attempting to negotiate a licensing agreement for [...]
EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows
Microsoft has violated European competition law by including Internet Explorer with Windows, according to the European Commission. The Commission said other browsers are prevented from competing with IE because Windows includes Microsoft’s own browser. Furthermore, the remedies put in place under the US government’s landmark 2002 antitrust settlement does not make IE’s inclusion with Windows [...]
Microsoft temporarily removes Windows 7 Beta download limit
Good news, Windows 7 fanatics — Microsoft has decided to nix that 2.5 million download limit in order to a) calm everyone down and b) enable its servers to relax just a wee bit. After the Windows 7 Beta download was launched, it took just hours to bring the servers to a screeching halt as [...]