The Microsoft Partner Programme – worth the effort?
If you don’t have the time to read this fairly long post, the short answer is no. Otherwise, here’s some detail on the Microsoft Partner Programme nobody else seems to have shared. more..
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Even Microsoft want you to drop IE6
Last month we blogged about the battle to drop IE6, now it seems Microsoft wants people to drop IE6 too even though their announcement to support IE6 until 2014 seems to contradict their statement.
Microsoft’s general manager for IE, Amy Bazdukas, let the world know that the folks over at Microsoft do feel our pain. more..
We dropped IE6, so should you
A long awaited revolution has begun. The most popular websites on the Internet are beginning to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6.
We now advise our customers that support for IE6 is an unnecessary expense that they can do without. more..
Making your .Net HTTP module for URL rewriting work in IIS
For an application that is currently under wraps we needed to implement URL rewriting. We did this using a technique that involves the use of HTTP modules and is detailed on this site
When we attempted to upload the HTTP module for some reason it simply wouldn’t fire and therefore our URL rewriting didn’t work.
Microsoft launches ThumbTack
Thumbtack is a cool new project from the people over at Microsoft Live Labs.
Microsoft Outlook Connector makes accessing your Hotmail e-mail easy in Outlook
There was a time in the past when Microsoft discontinued the support for accessing Hotmail e-mail via Outlook unless you had a premium paid for Hotmail account thingy.
Fortunately with the new free Microsoft Office Outlook Connector you can view and manage your Hotmail in Outlook. more..
Internet Explorer 8 now launched
IE8 Beta is FINALLY out of Beta. We’re friends with a developer on the Microsoft IE8 team and to say that he has been under pressure the last few months would be an understatement. There have been numerous problems and missed deadlines but the question is does the end product match the effort that appears to have gone in to it?
Let’s cover the major features you would expect of any browser here and see how IE8 shapes up against the competition.
