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Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 — We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. — Why Change? — Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.
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Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode — In an impressive volte-face, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will default to being compliant with web standards after all, and will not, as previously announced, require web pages to explicitly opt in to conforming behavior.
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Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president — Guest post from P-I reporter Joseph Tartakoff: — At his speech this morning to the thousands gathered for the SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took some questions …
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Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there — Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enteprrise wares. And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen …
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Microsoft to offer hosted versions of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs — San Francisco - Microsoft has opened up its hosted version of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs as it tries to take advantage of the demand for software as a service. — Now, businesses with 5,000 or fewer users can sign …
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What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps — Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications. In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total had over 20 Million installs - with 5 having more than 1 million users.
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Woz finds flaws in Apple's latest offerings — Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, in Sydney today. — Asher Moses — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning.
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Steve Wozniak's frustrations with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air
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VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients — VideoEgg's conversion from a video aggregator to hosting service to ad network hasn't been without its victims. Publishers with video still served by VideoEgg are getting Dear John letters, informing them that they've got 90 days to find a new video host.
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Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC — If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits about this Eee PC “New Generation” at the ASUS booth just now …
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Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake: — A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini — There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects. When I opened my mail and discovered these photos I squeed like teen on LJ!
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Exclusive preview: Delicious Monster's Delicious Library 2.0 — Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and other media.
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Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec — There are a number of software projects that enable Web applications to run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's Prism. What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in?
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Scott McNealy Has Apparently Never Heard Of AOL Time Warner — At a conference last week, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy offered some unsolicited advice to telecommunications companies: “look into acquiring Internet destination sites that are heavily trafficked.”
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Netvibes Ginger goes live, still no Web drive — The latest version of customizable start page Netvibes, nicknamed “Ginger” will be open to everyone as of Tuesday morning. We gave it a thorough look back in late January, and Rafe and I have been using it on a daily basis to keep up with various feeds and use it as a Widget engine.
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GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community — GigaOm (Om Malik's blog network) just launched a new open source software focused blog called Ostatic. The goal, Malik said today in an interview, is to track news around the world's 150,000+ open source projects.
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