Tag Archives: Microsoft

Windows finally lets you choose your browser

February 28, 2010 – 10:33 pm

The European Competition Commission have forced Microsoft to offer alternative web browsers with their operating systems, which will be available from March 2010 in Europe. This will obviously confuse some of the less techy users but it may also achieve something I think we all want – the accelerated demise of Internet Explorer 6!

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Windows 7, i’ve got my copy – now is it any good?

November 22, 2009 – 8:29 pm

The long awaited release of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 was last month and finally a few days ago my copy arrived, now I can finally upgrade from Vista and hope that Windows has become what Vista was supposed to be.

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The dark side and Google

August 29, 2009 – 10:04 pm

In the last ten years Google has moved from humble search engine to dominant web superpower and with no sign of easing up, but are they running the risk of becoming the new Microsoft which for the early part of this decade were hated.  Surely Google can’t move to the dark side and become the new [...]

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Isn’t it time IE6 quietly disappeared?

March 13, 2009 – 10:05 pm

In 2001 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 became the most dominant web browser in the world.  Nine years on new technology and browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome have left this average piece of software behind.  In 2009 I think it is time that the web helped IE6 finally move on, but will it?

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Web and tech hopes for 2009

January 15, 2009 – 11:32 pm

As 2008 finally came to a disappointing close, probably only to be remembered more for the global economic meltdown than the historic presidential win for Barack Obama, I express some of my hopes for 2009 both for the web and in general.

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