Posts tagged ‘Microsoft’

Bing

Bing Bong, the bells ring. Microsoft has launched a new version of LiveSearch called bing, what do we see on Google when searching ‘bing’ ? Bing on the second spot one day after launch. What do we see on Bing when searching ‘google’, all hits are something from google itself. what do we see when searching for ‘redlab’ on bing.com ? www.redlab.be/sitemap.xml.gz on the 8th spot

note: as with most stuff that comes from microsoft they did not make it themselves, they bought the company that did it.

No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful…

this you should read!!

Searching With WindowsXP

Why o Why….

When you do a search on your computer using Windows XP built in search mechanism, XP uses explorer.exe to execute your search. For some reason this process has a high priority thread setting and since searching is a reasonably intensive job it starts to use a lot of cpu time. But WTH! Does every thing else has to freeze because of that? Bill seems to say yes, I say NO Continue reading ‘Searching With WindowsXP’ »

Microsoft and EcmaScript 4 / Javascript 2

Since the Proposed EcmaScript 4 document came out, Microsoft and others are trying to push trough their standards.

If you are interested in this. Read this open letter from the CTO of Mozilla to the Lead Architect for Internet Explorer.

I find it all somehow a little amusing. War over code !

How long will it take before some frustrated developer picks up a stick and beats an Ms employee to death?

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