appleinsider.com - 11/7/2008
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Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."
appleinsider.com - 10/31/2008
on10.net - 11/13/2008
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on10.net —
Since the announcement of the upcoming Microsoft Office
Web Applications at this year’s PDC, there has been...
a lot of excitement about this new service which will allow for creating, editing, collaborating, and sharing documents using the web. ...
(more)
Microsoft Office Web Applications: Your Burning ...
macnewsworld.com - 11/3/2008
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macnewsworld.com —
In the current US election, I would argue
the winner actually will benefit from the excessive negative...
campaigning done by his opponent, who sacrificed trust and in many cases implied the U.S. voter was too stupid to go to the Web and look things up . ...
(more)
Operating Systems: It's Dangerous to Assume People Are ...
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Perpetual follower: Microsoft mulls Apple’s WebKit for Internet Explorer
MacDailyNews —
... its functionality" in order to lock-in users and/or web developers. McLean continues, "'There will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself so we may need to have a rendering service,' Ballmer said, adding, 'Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.'" MacDailyNews Take: "We will continue to build extensions for IE 8" in an attempt to keep the sheep in the pen. Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.] MacDailyNews Take: Apple ...
Microsoft to Look at Using Webkit in IE Development
Cult of Mac —
... Nokia’s mobile browser, Google’s new Chrome, and of course the mobile Safari browser used by Apple’s iPhone.
With Microsoft having long preached the gospel of praising developers for the innovations brought to its core product, the company would no doubt gain the undying gratitude of the developer community should it adopt Webkit and free developers from the extra work currently required to make their code render predictably in Internet Explorer.
Via AppleInsider
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