Microsoft has just been issued a rather substantial slap on the wrist for their failure to fully comply with their commitment to provide all European Union users with a choice of web browsers. They will have to pay 561 million euros (or $731 million) for their mistake. That is a huge price to pay, but [...]
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After an impressively brief period that gave them a handle on the customer reaction to their experiment, Google has now removed the silent ban on Windows Phone users attempting to access Google Maps. It might have taken less than two days for the whole debacle to play out, but the rapidity of the turnaround and [...]
Metro Chrome On Its Way Microsoft has been pushing Internet Explorer 10 pretty hard in Windows 8. While it is a very good browser these days, though, competition brings out the best. Nobody is pushing that harder than Google. While we’ve known for a few months now that they intended to have a version of [...]
Internet users have been becoming more aware of their privacy concerns in recent months. Nobody really finds the idea of their every move being tracked by an anonymous outside group to be a pleasant one. This has gotten such attention that the call for “Do Not Track” settings in browsers is being answered. Microsoft took [...]
At the moment, users will have no problem installing alternative web browsers such as Chrome or Firefox to the desktop environment of Windows 8. The Metro UI, on the other hand, currently offers Internet Explorer exclusively. This has been seen by some as a potentially major shortcoming, since Metro is so central to making the [...]
