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Tuesday Jun 17, 2003

Locked in the trunk.

Comments[0] by Dave in General

I've been reading some interesting comments from .Net guy Brian Wilson, Steve Gillmor of Computer Reseller News, Dave Winer, and Jeffrey Zeldman on Microsoft's recent moves to kill the standalone versions of the IE browser both on Windows and on the Mac. According to the news stories, IE is going to become part of Windows, which means that we will not see another release of IE until the next version of Windows ships in 2005 or 2006.

Brian says this means that Microsoft has given up on the web, no longer sees the need to innovate there, and is already starting to lose browser share.

Steve says that IE fell victim to internal Microsoft politics and the "Allchin" tax.

Dave and Jeffrey say that Microsoft now owns the web, has it locked in the trunk of the car, and is driving it off a cliff somewhere.

I have to agree with Matt, this stuff won't have an effect on us poor schmuck web developers for a years to come.

New kids on the blog, InfoWorld.ch

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

The Swiss edition of InfoWeek features what looks like an interesting article on weblogging by Urs Bertschy: New Kids on the Blog that covers weblog features like trackback, referers, blogging clients, and RSS. Too bad I don't read German. The Babelfish translation only goes so far, literally. The article mentions Roller and lists my weblog in a section titled "Interessante IT-Blogs". Nice.

Motivation sink.

Comments[1] by Dave in General

After you resign it is really difficult to get motivated to work on anything.

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