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W3C releases first draft of HTML 5.0

Published by Danny January 23rd, 2008 in Code. 0 Comments

Today the HTML working group published  the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to […]

Microsoft relaxes Vista Virtualization Rules

Published by Danny January 21st, 2008 in Code. 0 Comments

Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.
The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
(Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, […]

Microsoft unveils beta-test of SP1 for Windows Vista

Published by Danny January 11th, 2008 in Featured. 2 Comments

After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
Late in the day on January 11, Microsoft posted the new Vista SP1 Release Candidate […]

Open Source’s Non-Problem with Interoperability.

Published by Danny January 4th, 2008 in Code and Featured. 0 Comments

It’s really funny, though a bit pathetic, to see the media pick up a theme and run with it. In this case, it’s the idea that open source has problems with interoperability, and that it’s somehow crimping open-source adoption. This is ironic because proprietary enterprise software has had this problem for decades…and still does. In […]