Tag: Microsoft

Firefox To Ditch C++ In Favor Of Rust

By Vygantas Lipskas | January 25, 2012 | 16 Comments

Firefox To Ditch C++ In Favor Of Rust

If everything goes according to the plan, Rust, Mozilla’s experimental programming language that has been in development since 2006, could slowly replace C++, which is currently used by the open source organization.

Just like Google’s Go programming language, Rust syntax is similar to that of C and C++ and destined to provide memory safety, greater security and good concurrency support.
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Microsoft At CES 2012 (Full Recording)

By Vygantas Lipskas | January 16, 2012 | 3 Comments

If you’ve missed Microsoft’s final presentation at the CES 2012, here a full video for you to check out, which covers pretty much everything.

In case you don’t feel like watching the full video, here is the best part:
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Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates

By Vygantas Lipskas | December 27, 2011 | 16 Comments

Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release DatesIE11 to be released in 2013, IE12 – 2014.

Just a year ago, Microsoft would only release a new version of IE during the launch of Windows “Next”. However, since then it has increased the frequency of Internet Explorer releases as the upcoming Windows 8 OS will now IE10 instead of IE9.
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Microsoft: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

By Vygantas Lipskas | December 22, 2011 | 10 Comments

Microsoft: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

With Christmas approaching at a rapid rate, Microsoft has decided to launch a HTML5 powered web site “Let It Snow”, which showcases the benefits of GPU accelerated graphics.

If your are up for a challenge, set the number of snowflakes to 4,000 and enjoy the show. There is even a hidden message for you to “uncover”.

However, in case your web browser can’t handle that much snow, there is always another option: IE9 or IE10.

Happy Holidays!

Researchers Say Google Wants To Undermine Firefox’s Growth

By Vygantas Lipskas | December 20, 2011 | 13 Comments

Researchers Say Google Wants To Undermine Firefoxs Growth

Google denies the charges.

Remember the study by Accuvant, which concluded that Google Chrome is the most secure web browser?

NSS Labs, a California based company that publishes web browser security results of its own, has issued a statement, which claims that Google is pretty much on its own now and has already done some dirty things to undermine Firefox’s and other web browsers growth.
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Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape In 1994

By Vygantas Lipskas | October 31, 2011 | 10 Comments

Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape In 1994Remember the great web browser war in the 90s? Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, the battle of two titans.

Turns out, things might have taken slightly different turn. According to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript language, Microsoft tried to acquire Netscape back in 1994, just before the Netscape Navigator release.

Thankfully, it did not happen and a monopoly was avoided, at least for some time.
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Mozilla Responds To Microsoft’s Claims

By Vygantas Lipskas | October 18, 2011 | 12 Comments

Mozilla Responds To Microsoft's Claims

Recently, Microsoft has created a new web site, designed to highlight the advantages of the Internet Explorer web browser. As it turns out, Mozilla did not like the idea of such page at all and has responded to the software giant claims.
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Build Windows 2011 Video (Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10)

By Vygantas Lipskas | September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

A demo of Microsoft’s Windows 8 and the new Internet Explorer 10 using Metro UI.

Steve Ballmer: Build Windows 2011 Conference (Video)

By Vygantas Lipskas | September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Developers, developers, developers.

Internet Explorer 10 New Feature, Screenshots

By Vygantas Lipskas | September 13, 2011 | 22 Comments

Internet Explorer 10 New Feature, Screenshots

From Microsoft’s BUILD Conference.

As BUILD conference continues, here are some of the screenshots we took during the Internet Explorer 10 mini preview running the Immersive UI.
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