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Microsoft's search entry could restart browser war
Not sure this is good news or not, but it's sure that Microsoft with Longhorn will have a better desktop search engine, and surely it will give them some predominance. But as usual journalists see all the time devil in this company, and forget that Google can be also strong enough to provide their own browser.
Well it's on the way with the launch recently of their desktop search bar. -
New MSN newsbot
Cool, Google has a competitor now for news:
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Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License For Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas
Good news for enterprise applications:
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Make a Progress Indicator For Slow-Loading Pages
Cool idea by Brad McCabe !
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Floating articles
No I am not talking about sailing, but about Float elements in CSS. 2 great articles:
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Problems With Microsoft's Latest Patches
The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer, which addresses numerous security flaws in Internet Explorer 6, introduces bugs involving the scrollbar. After the patch is applied, the page scrolls up or down twice when the user clicks once in the empty areas of the scrollbar. Clicking on the scrollbar arrows or dragging the scrollbar thumb works correctly.
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XForms
XForms recently reached the W3C's Candidate Recommendation status—and you need to know about it—because XForms isn't a form description language, it's a language for describing applications in a platform-independent way. Best of all, it integrates easily with technologies you already know, such as XHTML, XPath, SVG, and CSS.If you want to know more about XForms, Devx has a great article on this new language.
A question is about XAML: is it a Microsoft interpretation of XForm or something else ?!? -
Yahoo toolbar
After Google, you have now Yahoo with a tool called Companion. A new version is planned for this week with like Google, a popup blocker.
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Tablet PC 2004
Gates confirmed at the Comdex that a new version of Tablet PC will be launched next year.
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Imagine Cup 2004
The Image Cup 2003 is now behind and the 2004 version is on the strating blocks.
From PressPass: