Blogs by Edward Lategan

As from today (1 March 2010), Microsoft is legally obliged to start advertising alternatives to its web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), following an agreement reached with the European Competition Commission (ECC) in December 2009.
The ECC’s case has been running since 2008 and Microsoft finally signed on the dotted line on 16 December to offer alternative [...]

Google has stated that they will suspend support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on its Gmail and Calendar services from 1 March 2010. This comes after Google admitted hackers had breached their network, and stolen information.
Google is not the first or last institution to adopt the policy of getting rid of IE6. Germany and France [...]

Windows 7 has now been available to the public for a little more than a month and I thought I would tell you about some interesting facts I gathered whilst using Microsoft’s latest OS.
Firstly, just 4 days after it’s release, The Guardian saw more computers using Windows 7 than computers using Linux to access its [...]

This week is the official launch of Windows 7, the operating system that Microsoft is banking on to minimise the damage done by its predecessor, Vista. I have not received my own copy yet, but I thought I would test-drive it on a friend’s PC. There are numerous changes to the operating system, but I [...]

Ever wondered why Google might be interested in building a browser and ‘force’ Google search as the preferred search engine, or import data which you have not approved – sound a bit like Microsoft a few years ago when Google and Mozilla was making a big fuss about Microsoft forcing Internet Explorer and [...]

I have been using Mozilla Firefox since early 2004, and I am only one of the hoardes of users complaining that it is getting slower and slower with every big release. Even though the Mozilla “release notes” states that they have fixed THE memory leak, it seems that fix opens a new leak somewhere else.
I [...]

High profile traffic sites like YouTube and Digg are considering dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 very soon, as they are increasingly growing frustrated with modifying their sites to support Internet Explorer 6. From a recent survey done by Digg, it showed that 69% of Digg users still use Internet Explorer 6, but only because [...]

Microsoft’s chief operating officer,  Kevin Turner,  says they are planning to open their retail stores “right next door to Apple” in the few months. Microsoft and Apple have been fighting it out for years over who has the best operating system. Microsoft’s Windows platform runs on the most PC’s in the world, while Apple are [...]

Microsoft Office 2010(also known by its codename "Office 14") is the next version of the Microsoft Office suite for Microsoft Windows, due out some time in 2010.
The timing for when it will be available, will differ for big businesses and individual consumers, and also for people who buy packaged software versus those who [...]

I was one of the many people who were disappointed when “Ask Jeeves” dropped the butler to become just “Ask” and what used to be a popular method of search became just another search engine.
There was even a few campaigns from fans and users who wanted the butler reinstated when the news broke in [...]