It wasn’t long ago that whenever Microsoft gave a ship-date target for a new Windows release, IT managers would add anywhere between a few months to a couple years to it when figuring their upgrade schedules. As crazy as it sounds, the new way to calculate when a new Windows release will ship seems to be to subtract a few months or even a year from what the Softies are promising publicly.
Archive for November 7th, 2008
Nov7
The new rules for calculating Windows ship dates
Filed in: Microsoft
Nov7
Why IE 8 won’t use the WebKit rendering engine
Despite the fact that many developers would welcome more rendering-engine compatibility, anyone expecting Microsoft to switch out its “Trident” engine and replace it with WebKit in Internet Explorer (IE) — especially in IE 8 — is misguided.
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