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Eolas patent has broken the Web

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:39:50 GMT

eWeek: Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with a plan to permanently modify the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia content on Web pages, but in what amounts to an admission that the changes could be disruptive, the software maker plans to give Web developers an extra 60 days to continue making preparations. A white paper detailing the ActiveX changes has been published on the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network).

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943847,00.asp

Windows Vista delayed

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:13:49 GMT

Robert Scoble: As you might have read by now, Windows Vista has been delayed.

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/windows-vista-delayed/

Larger Open Source Projects

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:01:50 GMT

The inevitable problem with large scale open source projects is they become slow, bureaucratic, and irritating. This is necessary to maintain quality. Yet still, bad design (a number of different String classes) finds its way into the code mix. I'm amazed that large scale open source projects don't deteriorate more. They must have an amazing core team.