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Bad user interface, part 37

I walked up to my laptop and saw this bit of OneCare-like stupidity: Here's the thing. If you’re going to perform background tasks, do it in the background. Obviously. And God help you if you pop-up a dialog later to inform me that whatever you were doing completed successfully. Put simply, let me...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-31-2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is coming in Q3 2008

Nick MacKechnie of Microsoft New Zealand says we can expect the next IE 8 beta in the third quarter of 2008. As previously announced this beta will be aimed at end users, unlike Beta 1, which targeted developers: Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-26-2008
Where is WinFS now?

Microsoft's Jon Udell talks to former WinFS general manager Quentin Clark about the company's aborted plans to enhance the Windows file system with database technologies. What happened? WinFS was about a lot of things. In part it was about trying to create something for the Windows platform and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-17-2008

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Bad user interface, part 37

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is coming in Q3 2008

Where is WinFS now?