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

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:08:52 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:14:37 +0000

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.

Tags: #MSFT #gaming #sony

The console wars have been lost - Xe Iaso

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:11:21 +0000

Man, Valve really does win by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the industry shoots itself in the head. I fear for what happens when Gabe Newell retires and the MBA cancer fully infects Valve.

Tags: #MSFT #gaming #sony #valve

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

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:48:33 +0000

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.

Tags: #MSFT #git #github

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

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:09:23 +0000

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.”

Tags: #MSFT #apple #gui #history #parc #xerox

rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:09:20 +0000

Are you forced to work with Linux? Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything? Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing:

Tags: #MSFT #linux #microsoft #recall

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:25:50 +0000

Tags: #6502 #MSFT #basic #microsoft

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool

Wed, 14 May 2025 04:12:20 +0000

How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

Tags: #MSFT #basic #dev #history #vb

FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Articles - InvisibleUp

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:14:08 +0000

But... FrontPage as a concept. As a dream of what could have been, and a window into what was. Letting the typical home user at the time create websites, express creativity, and conquer the world by storm, all without being forced to learn HTML or CSS or JavaScript... In that regard, FrontPage couldn't be beat.

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FYI: No JIT on Windows 8 for ARM - luajit - FreeLists

Fri, 11 May 2012 02:07:32 +0000

The Internet Explorer process on W8ARM has special privileges and is the only one allowed to run a JIT compiler to speed up JavaScript. No other browser will be able to compete on performance with IE on W8ARM. That sure simplifies keeping up with the competition ... ;-)

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #imported:pinboard #jit #microsoft #windows

How Microsoft Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Love Open Source | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:26:51 +0000

Microsoft recently gave some code to the Samba project -- one of the company's traditional open source enemies. The move is a sign that when it comes to open source, Microsoft has changed.

Tags: #MSFT #opensource #samba #shared #ttrss

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

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:30:17 +0000

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.

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #msie #webdev

Windows XP turns 10, enjoys its golden years and slow transition into retirement

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:33:00 +0000

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

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:19:46 +0000

"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."

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #mozilla #msie #web #webdev

Microsoft’s Language Problem

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:31:23 +0000

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