Archive for March, 2010
Mozilla: No plans to release Firefox for Windows Phone 7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Mozilla is ceasing its browser-development work for Windows Mobile phones — no surprise, given Microsoft has no plans to further that platform. But Microsoft’s browser rival also has decided against developing a Windows Phone 7 version of Firefox, officials said via a blog post on March 22. Mozilla: No plans to release Firefox for Windows [...]
March 23, 2010
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First Windows Phone 7 devices won’t run Silverlight in the browser | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
“In its first release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone. It is very straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. Silverlight 4 has not yet been released. We will be [...]
March 19, 2010
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Microsoft removes hardware virtualization barrier to running XP Mode | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Effective immediately, Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology, Microsoft officials said today. XP Mode is a feature of Windows 7 Professional or higher that allows companies to run XP applications that are incompatible with Windows 7 in a virtual environment. Until today, XP Mode would only work on PCs that included CPUs [...]
March 18, 2010
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IE9: Microsofts new browser gets no respect at all | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
Yesterday, influential web designer Jeffrey Zeldman wrote “there is no such thing as a calm discussion of improvements to a Microsoft browser,” and then proceeded to accidentally prove his own case. Zeldman aimed a withering broadside at Microsoft and its “enforced bragging” about Internet Explorer 9. Unfortunately, Zeldman’s entire argument was based on a four-month-old [...]
March 17, 2010
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blog.smarx.com – “What is Windows Azure?” a Hand-Drawn Video
blog.smarx.com – “What is Windows Azure?” a Hand-Drawn Video. Today I drew and narrated a video called “What is Windows Azure?” The restrictions of the medium (hand-drawn at the same time as the voiceover) really helped me to focus on really simple visual metaphors. From Steve Marx from Microsoft telling a nice little story about [...]
March 1, 2010
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