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Story: Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
Posted by: ComTech (Tuesday 21 March 2006, 9:23 AM)
This is all fine and well, but will MS become WC3 compliant? Realizing there is a world beyond Redmond is one ting. Actually responding to real world desires (like compliance with standards) is another thing.
I am concerned about this whole software-as-a-service thing. paying monthly to use crappy software is not a service IMHO. MS (and apple) has failed in recent years to produce anything I would pay 200 usd per copy, let alone a fixed ammount a month. As a business it is obsured to pay a monthly fee for software (yearly lisencing is bad enough).
This will drive more people to Open Source products like Linux, Firefox, and Open Office- all solid and compliant with standards.
Good for MS to waking up to the internet. However this is probably bad news for the rest of us.
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Story: Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
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This is all fine and well, but will MS become WC3... ComTech -
Sorry why would Microsoft want to make its br... Jon -
It looks like Bill finally got around to reading T... Anthony Hunt
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AJAX is useful and the applicaions that come out d... James Karrington
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Betting on a single horse (company) time and time... Arthur B.
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For the vast majority of people Microsoft isn... Jon
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Subscribing to, and using software and tools, on t... Oldator
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A vast majority of people are disappointed in Micr... Arthur B.
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Jon, you simply have no idea what you are tal... Matt Webber
