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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source Blog

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a little font called Comic Sans.
#MSFT #comicchat #irc #jerkcity
archive.org #38657

World historic amounts of gamedev talent thrown out to rot – Laura Michet's Blog

https://blog.lauramichet.com/world-historic-amounts-of-gamedev-talent-thrown-out-to-rot/
There is a never-before-seen glut of experienced, highly senior talent just lying around right now, like cuts of meat someone threw out of the fridge to rot on the floor of the restaurant. Game dev teams don't get birthed as fully-formed agglomerations of talent... it takes years for them to come together as effective creative communities and start making material they can be proud of. So we're looking at an industry that's not only hemorrhaging talent, but also hemorrhaging the interpersonal trust and momentum you need to make good games.
#MSFT #gaming #sony
archive.org #38638

GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww! Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. Whatever the truth, it’s impossible to miss the delightful experience that is Microsoft GitHub if you use it semi-regularly.
#MSFT #git #github
archive.org #38517

Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-24/inside-the-1979-silicon-valley-demo-that-made-apple-what-it-is-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fapple
Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
#MSFT #apple #gui #history #parc #xerox
archive.org #38423

The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage.ars
A couple of interesting things happened in the world of Web browser usage during October. The more significant one is that Internet Explorer's share of global browser usage dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade. Less significant, but also notable, is that Chrome for the first time overtook Firefox here at Ars, making it the technologist's browser of choice.
#MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #msie #webdev
archive.org #19319

2011: The Year of Firefox - or of Chrome? - Open Enterprise

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/01/2011-the-year-of-firefox---or-of-chrome/index.htm
"I see no reason why Chrome won't rise to above 20% in the short term. This means, of course, that the market share of Firefox and Internet Explorer will continue to drop. But as I noted some time back, this really isn't a huge problem for Firefox - although it is for Microsoft. The reason is quite simple: Firefox was never aiming at world domination, it was fighting to create an open Web where no browser held such a dominant position that it could ignore open standards and impose de facto ones instead. We pretty much have that now, with Internet Explorer increasingly standards-compliant - and proud of it, amazingly."
#MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #mozilla #msie #web #webdev
archive.org #15243

Built from source. » Blog Archive » Detecting plugins in Internet Explorer (and a few hints for all the others)

http://www.builtfromsource.com/2007/06/26/detecting-plugins-in-internet-explorer-and-a-few-hints-for-all-the-others
"The problem is that no one quite knows what to look for when dealing with Internet Explorer’s plugins. Plugins in IE are ActiveX-based, so there’s no single API for them all—each has its own method of returning, for example, version information. What this basically means is that while Firefox and other browsers are putting all of their plugin information in one handy place, Internet Explorer is jealously guarding its plugin-related secrets. It’s like the Dick Cheney of browsers. And we are, um, the Information Security Oversight Office in that analogy. Er… let’s just jump right in with some working detection cod"
#MSFT #detection #internetexplorer #msie #plugin #plugins #webdev
archive.org #12653

Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch browsers over 'zero-day' flaw | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/16/internet
"Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of computers that have visited a website infected with malicious code designed to exploit it. While restricting web surfing to trusted sites should reduce the risk of infection, the malicious code can be injected into any website. Users do not have to click or download anything to become infected, merely visiting an infected website is sufficient."
#MSFT #browsers #diaf #exploits #microsoft #msie #security #zeroday
archive.org #11784

Download details: IE App Compat VHD

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
Check this page every few months, since it seems they release new versions with the expiration time bumped forward. "VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2"
#MSFT #ie6 #webdev #winxp
archive.org #11048

The B-List: Legacy.

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jan/23/legacy
"it stands to reason, if Microsoft is bending over backwards to keep its bread-and-butter corporate customers happy, that the IE team would suddenly get backwards-compatibility fever."
#MSFT #msie #standards #webdev
archive.org #10291

Samba creator refutes Microsoft claims in EU case | InfoWorld | News | 2006-04-28 | By Paul Meller, IDG News Service

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/28/77869_HNsambaonstand_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/28/77869_HNsambaonstand_1.html
"But the software giant turned its back on the rest of the software community in the late 1990s once it had developed a server operating system it believed it could corner the market with. "
#MSFT #samba
archive.org #6948

Macstravaganza at Microsoft - Gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/macstravaganza-at-microsoft-168789.php
"If you've ever fantasized about what 150 Mac Minis might look like, well, you really are a bigger dweeb than wed thought and were so totally never going to go out on a date with you, so stop asking already!"
#MSFT #apple #mac #nifty
archive.org #6874

IEBlog : A New Look for IE

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522737.aspx
Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
#MSFT #ie #ie7 #msie #webdev #windows
archive.org #6222

Vista hardware requirements clarified

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry360.html
"Realistically, then, to make the most of Vista we're looking at needing a dual-core processor system, with 2Gb or more of fast RAM, a 256Mb or better display card, a hard drive better than whats currently available and, if we want to watch the upcoming h
#MSFT #hardware #suckers
archive.org #5385

Daring Fireball: Some Joke

http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/some_joke
"If Microsoft plans to build home entertainment systems that are designed to please entertainment industry executives, I don’t see how they expect their products to appeal to actual people."
#MSFT #apple
archive.org #3497

Microsoft Corrects: No XP SP2 For Pirated Copies

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1590431,00.asp
"Despite reports indicating that Microsoft Corp. was planning to allow users with pirated copies of Windows XP to install Service Pack 2, the company has confirmed to eWEEK.com that this will not be the case." How clueless can you get? This isn't punish
#MSFT #windows
archive.org #2527

codepoetry :: End-To-End

http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2004/04/19/endtoend.php
"Hello enterprise market, it's nice to meet you. How can we rid you of Microsoft today?" Personally, I'd love to be working in a server environment made up of XServes
#MSFT #apple #osx
archive.org #2300

Irate Scotsman - Worrying

http://iratescotsman.com/index.php/tech/worrying.html
" Was at the supermarket tonight, and went to the ATMs outside to get some cash; imagine my amusement when I saw this on the Nationwide machine's screen."
#MSFT
archive.org #1781

Allegiance - Home

http://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance
"We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn’t really died."
#MSFT #gaming
archive.org #1709