20090618 Thursday June 18, 2009

How to increase your browsers market share

So this is Microsoft's way to increase IE8 market share.

Just promise to people that they can win a fair amount of money - but only when using their most current, proprietary web browser. Oh - did I already say that this browser would only be available for their proprietary operating system?

Hardware vendors often write something like "works best with Windows XP Professional" - will we now see web sites with "works best only with Internet Explorer 8"? Is there an IE8 logo program in place?




Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Jun 18 2009, 04:13:38 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]

 

20090603 Wednesday June 03, 2009

Sun ODF Plugin 3.1 for Microsoft Office

A new version of the ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office is available.

As I wrote in the last ODF Plugin announcement, the Plugin nowadays uses the same version number like the underlying OpenOffice.org version, so this version is now based on OpenOffice.org 3.1.

Some people asked for it, so I have added the possibility to disable the update feature and the registration feature.

Since the registration will only be triggered once after installation (and you don't have to register!), and the update feature never executes automatically, disabling these features is probably only interesting/needed in enterprise deployments. See the FAQ for details.


Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Jun 03 2009, 12:24:08 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [9]

 


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