Category: Microsoft

Microsoft Starts Recommending Incomplete Edge Browser To Bing Users

By | September 8, 2015 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Starts Recommending Incomplete Edge Browser To Bing UsersBe thankful if you are not from the US.

While we don’t think that Edge is really ready for the general public, it looks like the software giant thinks otherwise. Despite a lot of lacking features and weird glitches, Microsoft has decided to go ahead and start the promotion of its latest web browser for none other than the Bing users.

If you were to search for Firefox or Google Chrome while running Windows 10, a notification bar will appear asking you to consider using Microsoft Edge instead.

Here’s how it looks:
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Mozilla Complains About The Windows 10

By | July 31, 2015 | 1 Comment

Mozilla Complains About The Windows 10Now here is an interesting piece of drama before the weekend begins. As you might know, Microsoft has started pushing Windows 10 to all the user’s around the globe. However, it looks like Mozilla is not particularly happy with the way software giant is handling updates.

In an open letter, Mozilla’s CEO, Chris Beard said that “the Windows 10 upgrade experience strips users of their choice by effectively overriding existing user preferences for the Web browser and other apps” and that they have tried to work things out but it did not result in any meaningful progress. And this is why they have decided to go public. In addition to that, he claims that it is now much harder for people to use the third party apps and change the default.
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RIP: Microsoft Silverlight

By | July 3, 2015 | 0 Comments

RIP: Microsoft SilverlightOne more time.

After pretty much abandoning the Silverlight development, then not supporting it on mobile or Metro version of Internet Explorer, it looks like the software giant has finally put the last nail into the Flash alternative’s coffin. One has to wonder if there is any empty space left for it anyway.

What do we mean by that? As it turns out, Microsoft Edge will not support Silverlight, as simple as that. The news come from the Microsoft itself, who stated that this is due to a removal of ActiveX.
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23 X Times More Performance: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla & Others Join Forces

By | June 18, 2015 | 0 Comments

23 X Times More Performance: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla & Others Join ForcesWill co-develop a new binary format.

It’s nice to see tech giants that are usually competing with one another coming together to work on something that will benefit users all over the globe. The most recent example comes from a new announcement, which details the forthcoming partnership between Mozilla, Microsoft, WebKit engineers and others.

What is it all about? As you might know, when it comes to executing JavaScript files, browsers simply download them from a server, compile them using their own JavaScript engine and then execute. How exactly is this a problem? It is not but there is a ton of improvements that developers can make to speed everything up (such as Mozilla’s ASM.JS, Google’s NativeClient or Microsoft’s TypeScript). However, a newly joined “alliance” aims to make a new binary format called WebAssembly, which should merge all vendor’s efforts into a single compilation target.
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Microsoft Edge Becomes First Browser To Support Dolby Audio

By | May 30, 2015 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Edge Becomes First Browser To Support Dolby AudioAudiophiles rejoice.

Now here is something that should impact the vast majority of people that decided to give Microsoft Edge a try. According to the latest report, the software giant has partnered with Dolby to bring some of the audio technologies to its web browser.

So how exactly is this beneficial? Well, if you have a surround system hooked up then developers will be able to leverage it and enhance your overall listening experience, yes, even thorough the web browser. However, the good news don’t stop there. What if you have a regular laptop with not so great speakers, headphones or just a PC that utilizes simple 2.1 setup? Thanks to the new Dolby Digital Plus mode that is coming with Windows 10, you should be getting a much clearer and louder audio as well. Or to put it simply, everybody wins.
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Project Spartan Becomes Microsoft Edge, New Icon + Video

By | April 30, 2015 | 2 Comments

Project Spartan Becomes Microsoft Edge, New Icon + VideoIt’s official.

Yesterday, during its annual developers conference (Build 2015), Microsoft has revealed that (unfortunately) they won’t name Internet Explorer successor Spartan. Instead the team has decided to call the new browser under its rendering engine name: Microsoft Edge.

In addition to that, the new icon has been revealed and boy does it look familiar…

Lastly, a promo video has been posted so here it is:
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Watch Build 2015 Here (Live Stream)

By | April 29, 2015 | 0 Comments

Watch Build 2015 Here (Live Stream)And take a look at the list of Spartan related sessions.

If you are eager to find out what’s new in Project Spartan (as well as in other, Microsoft related products), then good news, the software giant will be streaming its Build 2015 conference live and you can watch it here!

When does it start? In 8 hours, and the timer is also available on the very same page so you will know the exact time in your country.

As far as specific, Spartan sessions go:
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Microsoft Adopts Google’s Bounty Strategy

By | April 22, 2015 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Adopts Google’s Bounty StrategyGet your debuggers going.

It looks like Microsoft has finally decided to borrow one of the Google’s ideas: rewards for finding serious web browser bugs.

While the rewards program is not exactly new in the software giant campus, those who wanted to do some serious debugging for the Project Spartan will finally be rewarded the right way: up to $15,000 for a security vulnerability.

The bad news? The clock is ticking and this is not exactly a campaign for a lifetime. Instead, the Project Spartan Bug Bounty will end on June 22, 2015.
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Google Chrome Will Have A Much Better Scrolling Performance

By | April 8, 2015 | 0 Comments

Google Chrome Will Soon Have Much A Better Scrolling PerformanceThanks to Microsoft.

Even though Microsoft and Google are always fighting these weird battles (at least when it comes to the Internet drama, from Scroogled campaigns to Windows Phone users blocking), it looks like the search giant has seen the light and will be implementing some of the Microsoft technologies.

The technology we’re talking about is Pointer Events API, which is already used in the Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox.

Despite obvious benefits such as improved scrolling due to a combination of touch and mouse events into a single set, Google has resisted the change and focused on improving their own APIs instead. However, the pressure from the developers did change their mind
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Adobe Will Help With Spartan’s Development

By | March 29, 2015 | 0 Comments

Adobe Will Help With Spartan’s DevelopmentMore open than ever.

Adobe, a company that has created one of the most brilliant (Photoshop) and currently one of the most hated (Adobe Flash) pieces of software, has announced a partnership with Microsoft, where they will contribute to Spartan’s code base.

If you didn’t know, Adobe is actually one of the major contributors to WebKit, Blink and Gecko engines, so this partnership is a welcome step in the right direction.
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