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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
IE6 grinding to a slow stop
5 February 2010 | Posted by Edward Lategan | Lead Developer | TechnologyTags: Google, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Windows 7 – A record setting first month
25 November 2009 | Posted by Edward Lategan | Lead Developer | Technology, UncategorizedTags: Microsoft, windows 7
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 [...]
Google, Microsoft, Newscorp – whose news is it anyway?
23 November 2009 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Head of Social Media | Search, Social MediaTags: blogs, Google, Microsoft, news, News Corp, newscorp, rupert murdoch, twitter
Another day, another chapter in the exciting story of Newscorp vs Google – summarised nicely by Neil in his post “Do no evil? Now who is playing dirty?” – so I won’t go over the details again here.
Apart from the obvious arguements of who is right and wrong, who is stealing whose revenues and what [...]
Bing comes out of Beta! Why now and what can you expect?
13 November 2009 | Posted by Stuart McLennan | Search Executive | Search, TechnologyTags: Bing, featured, Google, Hitwise, Local search, Microsoft, natural search, Search Engine, Video Search
Yesterday (November 12th) Microsoft announced that Bing had finally come out of Beta stage in the UK.
So what has prompted Microsoft to remove the Beta tag and effectively announce their satisfaction with Bing in the UK? The answer, it seems, lies in localised search:
“We promised to remove (the Beta tag) only once our experience would [...]
Microsoft will not give up on Internet Explorer 6
12 August 2009 | Posted by Edward Lategan | Lead Developer | TechnologyTags: Browsers, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
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 [...]
Search Engines join forces, Google worried?
29 July 2009 | Posted by Neil Jackson | Search Strategy Director | SearchTags: Bing, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
YaBing, or Microhoo?
Finally Yahoo! and Microsoft have decided to join forces no doubt hoping the synergy they create will be enough to take on Google in both natural search and through their online advertising platforms.
By trading search engine technology (Bing to Yahoo!) and advertising platform (Yahoo! to Bing) the plan would be to have an [...]
Windows 7: bits I’m gonna like
22 July 2009 | Posted by Andrew Sin | Developer | TechnologyTags: Microsoft, windows 7
I’m hearing a lot of good things about Windows 7 right now. After taking advantage of the early adopter scheme, and ordering a copy of the Home Premium edition, I’m feeling a little twang of excitement about the October official release. Am I suckered into some kind of Microsoft hype right now? [...]
SMX London 2008 – Day 2 Session 1
5 November 2008 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Head of Social Media | SearchTags: Bronco, Dave Naylor, Google, London, Microsoft, SEO, SMX
The first session I attended this morning was the serious sounding “Industrial Strenth SEO” and included a number of heavy-duty speakers, including Richard Baxter of Cheapflights.co.uk, Gary Moyle of Guava (nee Neutralize) and Dave Naylor.
First up was Gary Moyle, who talked about the problem of Industrial Strength SEO compared to enterprise-level projects. The main [...]
