Internet explorer: microsoft plans ‘silent’ updates
Jan2012
From January, Internet Explorer (IE) users will be automatically updated to the latest version of the browser. Microsoft said it was starting the project to update millions of machines to improve security online. Future updates to the browser would be applied without a user’s knowledge to help beat scammers catching people out with fake updates. [...]
Is google chrome the new IE6?
Dec2011
Let me tell you about a browser. An innovative browser that was the first to implement new Web technologies that allowed for greater interactivity. A browser with a striking new interface. Chrome? No: Internet Explorer 6. There’s a reason that Microsoft’s browser took over 95 percent of the Web browser market from Netscape (Firefox’s ancestor): [...]
Internet explorer finally falls below 50% of web browser use
Nov2011
Web designers around the world, it’s time to celebrate: Last month, Internet Explorer’s share of global browser usage fell below 50% for the first time in more than a decade. Your long nightmare of having to make things work for people who still use IE6 is a little bit closer to coming to an end. Microsoft’s [...]
Google engineer: here’s why google+ is failing
Oct2011
Last night, Google engineer, blogger, and frequent public speaker Steve Yegge wrote an epic rant about Google’s inept handling of the Google+ platform. His primary message: Google+ is not a platform like Facebook. It’s trying to dictate the direction of Google+ instead of opening up to developers and letting them show Google what makes sense and what doesn’t. He [...]
Microsoft drops flash from IE on windows 8 tablets
Sep2011
One of the web’s most widely used technologies is going to be absent from some versions of Windows 8. Microsoft is to drop support for Adobe Flash from the web browser that works with the Metro interface on Windows 8. The Metro user interface is most likely to be used on tablets as it displays [...]
The surprising worst browser
Aug2011
Just like any good software company, we track all kinds of data. Last time we shared some of it with you, you loved it, and that data wasn’t even the good stuff. We thought it was, but it dawned on us recently that we’ve been indirectly been tracking something better. And when we realized where to [...]
What do people type in the address bar?
Aug2011
Earlier this year, I added a feature to URL Fixer (a browser add-on that fixes errors in URLs that you type in the address bar) that collects anonymous usage stats from users who opt in in order to help improve the ways that URL Fixer corrects typos; the collected data includes domains that are typed in [...]
Internet explorer users have lower IQ says study
Aug2011
A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax. A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant. It later emerged that the company’s website was only recently set [...]