Buzz Archives for March 2010
Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum
Today, six more essential courses join the WaSP InterACT curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web.
By Aarron Walter | Filed in Curriculum, Education, Education TF
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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An End to Aging IE Installs
By Aaron Gustafson | December 15th, 2011
Do you hear that sound? That’s right Johnny, it’s the sound of millions of web professionals breathing a collective sigh of relief.
Today is a momentous day.
After spending years of griping about IE6’s staying power and lamenting Microsoft’s earlier decision to advocate against upgrading to IE7 (a decision they didn’t stick with, thankfully), Microsoft has turned a new leaf today, announcing that they will be pushing updates to IE to anyone who takes part in their Windows Update service.
What does this mean? Well, it means that grandma will be upgraded to IE8 if she’s still on Windows XP or IE9 if she’s on Vista or Windows 7.
Corporations (and individuals) still have the ability to opt-out of these updates, but this move should put an end to upgrades that haven’t happened purely because users didn’t know how to upgrade to a new version of IE. As Microsoft’s own Peter Laudati so eloquently put it, “Upgrade Your Parents Browser Weekend” is now officially obsolete.
Filed in Browsers, Microsoft | Comments (0)
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| IE9 looks really promising | Aaron Gustafson |