MetaFilter posts tagged with Microsoft and Browser

Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!

sloe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:14:55 -0800

Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer in Europe "Microsoft said it made it’s decision following an anti-trust investigation by the European Union." "This means that computer manufacturers and users will be free to install Internet Explorer on Windows 7, or not, as they prefer" - Dave Heiner, deputy general counsel for Microsoft. Related: Bing (6% market share launch) and the Browser Wars which are still being won by IE or pretty much a dead heat between IE and FF depending on who you sample. Apple nod: Safari's come from behind upset?

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web.

sjvilla79 — Sat, 28 May 2005 14:04:29 -0800

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web. Check out this humorous parody site created for Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer. Something tells me this won't be up for too much longer though.

in other news, there is no evil microsoft conspiracy

reklaw — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:55:19 -0800

What the heck? Now even Slate is saying that you should ditch IE and switch to Firefox. But, as they say in the article, Slate is owned by Microsoft...

All your plugin capability are belong to us

aaronshaf — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:40:25 -0800

Eolas® Technologies Inc. owns the plugin concept. Meet US Patent 5,838,906: "The patent claims to cover mechanisms for embedding objects within distributed hypermedia documents, where at least some of the object's data is located external to the document, and there is a control path to the object's implementation to support user interaction with the object." Eolas sued Microsoft, was awarded $521 million, Microsoft is appealing, and the W3C held (Macromedia hosted) an ad hoc meeting on the recent court decision and launched a discussion list. Microsoft plans to promptly make changes to Internet Explorer. If this follows through, what are the negative and positive implications?

WaSP Calls for MS to Fix Standards Bugs in Discontinued IE

setmajer — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:03:47 -0800

IE in bug fix mode? Then fix the bugs! As was mentioned here before, MS is discontinuing the free version of IE for Mac, and offering it only as part of the MSN service instead. They also appear to be doing the same with IE for Windows. The Web Standards Project is demanding that they include standards bugs in the list they are going to fix, because MS has always advertised IE as standards-compliant.

costas — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:57:13 -0800

While the father of Visual Basic tells Microsoft to: "abandon the browser", a multitude of researchers are looking into next-generation interfaces (links via Joel on Software and Wired respectively). Is the software industry even close to moving on to a new paradigm?

mathowie — Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:36:01 -0800

The W3C opens a can of whoopass on the browser manufacturers with this detailed list of bugs they'd like to see remedied. Will this result in any changes whatsoever, or will Microsoft and Netscape continue to ignore what they should be doing?

riffola — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:05:14 -0800

IE 6.0 : The browser for more sophisticated, computer-savvy users?

faisal — Fri, 12 May 2000 13:02:09 -0800

Macintouch is reporting that Microsoft has disbanded the IE for Mac team and is discontinuing development of IE for Mac. So much for a 5 year commitment....

ericost — Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:39:44 -0800

You know their server isn't particularly secure; well neither is their browser.