Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Adobe Flash Vs. Microsoft Silverlight!!! May 26th, 2010
“Should I use Silverlight or Flash???” Many people ask this question…
I’m not a fanboy of either Flash or Silverlight… I’m a web developer, and I choose the tools best to solve a problem…
I agree to it that both Flash and Silverlight provide a great way to program rich applications with complicated interactivity… If your web application has simple interactivity, such as filling out forms or clicking buttons to make hidden things appear, you can do that easily with JavaScript… I can sense some cringes at that suggestion… Yes, HTML, CSS and JavaScript are prone to have cross-browser cross-platform incompatibilities, but a good html person with JQuery and browsershots.org should be able to handle it… That’s cheaper than paying a search engine consultant to figure out why your all-flash website doesn’t get any traffic… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Adobe, Flash, Microsoft, Silverlight
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Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates!!! May 18th, 2010
Came across the really hilarious comic strip on Sad And Useless… You just have to have a look…
Bill – I went to a bank yesterday to talk about a loan…
Steve – What do you need a loan for???
Bill – i don’t, the bank does…
Tags: Apple, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Steve Jobs
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PHP vs. ASP!!! March 30th, 2010
In the world of web development, the option of which development language to use usually comes down to two well-liked choices… Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are naturally being created by either Microsoft’s ASP.Net language, or the Open Source substitute language of PHP…
ASP stands for Active Server Pages and PHP formerly stood for Personal Home Pages and is now known as PHP Hypertext Preprocessor…
ASP is basically a toy from the Microsoft development toy chest and is used with Internet Information Server (IIS) which is a program that runs on Microsoft servers… However, there are 3rd party applications that can make it compatible with a few other servers. ASP is widely used for large companies Web needs…
Rasmus Lerdorf originally designed the PHP parsing language during 1994/1995… Some other major contributors were Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans who rewrote the parsing engine to create PHP version 3… The major NT and UNIX Web servers support it and it is widely used with the mySQL database. Small and medium Web developers use it religiously… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ASP.Net, FOSS, Microsoft, PHP
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R.I.P. IE6!!! February 23rd, 2010
Internet Explorer 6 is an extremely outdated browser, and it is holding the Internet community back from continuing its perception of new shininess… It is also causing a huge headache for webmasters, who must go out of their way to accommodate the browser for their sites… First launched in 2001 Internet Explorer 6 is still being used by 15 – 25 percent of Internet users… So what then is being done about this? The Internet community is rallying behind a campaign to “kill IE6” and their ranks are growing…
I found this nice site… http://ripie6.com/
RIPIE6 is the obituary notice of Internet Explorer 6’s death. It’s a message for all users who still use that “browser”. RIPIE6 is designed exactly for those old-fashioned people who don’t see the point of updating their software.
Tags: Ie6, Microsoft
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Windows Phone 7: First Thoughts… February 16th, 2010
Alright, today at last Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer unveiled their newest Windows Mobile OS, called “Windows Phone 7 Series”, and launched a website to show it off at the Mobile World Congress… I can actually say that I am excited for Microsoft announcing a new mobile OS… It hasn’t just created another version of Windows Mobile, from the demos it looks like they have completely started from scratch… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7
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Google Drops Support for IE 6!!! February 9th, 2010
In my mailbox is a nasty looking mail for Microsoft by Google today…
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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Looks like the Browser war is never gonna stop… 
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google, Microsoft
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So iPad it is!!! January 28th, 2010
So Apple have made their announcement and they’ve gone with the name iPad… Quite a surprise considering my understanding was that the trademark of iPad belonged to another company in the US…
Tags: Apple, appletablet, iPad, Microsoft
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Howto Make Dell XPS M1530 Multimedia Keys Work With iTunes!!! January 21st, 2010
I have being using itunes for a long time on my Dell XPS M1530… The only thing that bugs me while using itunes is that the multimedia keys only work when the itunes main window is in focus, which is very irritating…
After a little bit of googling I found out this post and his solution works… This is what you have to do to fix this issue….
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Tags: Apple, Dell XPS, iTunes, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
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Rumor: Microsoft’s Bing to Replace Google As Default Search Engine on iPhone… January 20th, 2010
Businessweek reports that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com… The talks have reportedly been underway for weeks…
Tags: Apple, Bing, Google, iPhone, Microsoft
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Google’s approach in China!!! January 18th, 2010
As many of us would be aware, Google has openly announced that they will take an active stance against internet censoring by China… I find this move by Google to be very interesting and feel it would have a huge effect in the near future on the freedom of speech in China..
This move makes it clear that Google is making a bid for power…. It’s as if Google is trying to test out the government, to see how it will react to this kind of attack…. Opinions seem to be divided on the net…Some expect this move by Google to pay off while others expect it to have no effect and fully expect it to fail… The Chinese government of course denies that the internet is ‘not free’ in China to begin with, so not much unexpected happening there… A more interesting aspect is this: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: china, Google, Microsoft
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