Thursday, November 11th, 2004
A friend of mine emailed me the following cute story. If you search MSN's new search engine for "more evil than satan" the first result is ... Google (but the fourth is Microsoft).
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Daniel Quinlan of ASF mentioned in a recent newsgroup posting that Sender-ID negotiations between the FOSS world and Microsoft may restart:
I also briefly met with Ryan Hamlin, the GM of Microsoft's Safety
Technology & Strategy group, and he's interested in attempting a second
try at the patent license negotiation between us (well, ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
According to a post to the IETF's IPR list and an eWeek story, Microsoft maybe asserting IP rights over basic Internet protocols:
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
As a followup to an earlier mentioned Opera Watch blog, it seems that Microsoft's Internet Explorer team has a blog of their own.
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Monday, November 1st, 2004
Posted by Microsoft to the MARID list, will show up in the IETF's repository after the DC meeting:
draft-lyon-senderid-core-00
draft-lyon-senderid-pra-00
draft-katz-submitter-00
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Thursday, October 28th, 2004
eWeek just published an opinion piece on Sender-ID written by Larry Seltzer. In general it reflects the same line of thinking that I used myself. However, I do want to take issue with something he says in the end of the article:
Personally, I'm sick and tired of the lack of ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
(This entry has been Slashdotted and published on Circle-ID).
With the closure of IETF's MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft's Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues, and causing the closure of MARID for ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
One of the more boring tasks in DHTML is validation of form data and specifically of INPUT and SELECT boxes. Since both have a ".value" property, we can save time and use the same code for checking both:
if(selectBox.value == null || selectBox.value.length == 0)
{ alert('Nothing selected in select box!'); }
else ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
This is gotta be one of the stranger things used for recruitment, although not nearly as cool as Google's weird math puzzles on billboards. If you link to this blog entry from Heather Leigh, a Microsoft recruiter, she promises to look at your resume (via Liudvikas Bukys):
Want me to find ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
Slashdot is reporting on a new Microsoft patent that covers client-side data processing using drop-down menus, alphanumerical input boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and decision trees. That's right boys and girls - no more sortable DHTML tables, or any kind of fancy DHTML manipulations ...
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