dland's status Working on the next version of LiveWorld's Community Center product!
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dland |
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8/24/05 |
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Director, UI Engineering |
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Sometimes when you're feeling down, it helps to take a nice warm bath. Other times it requires pushing a certain someone into a fountain. Either way, water is the answer. |
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Oct 7, 2009 2:40 PM
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Since at least 2006, Microsoft has given away free Virtual PC disk images of Windows XP (and eventually Vista), with Internet Explorer 6 (and eventually IE7 and IE8) pre-configured on them, so that Web developers can properly test their sites under Microsoft's growing family of browsers. This has been a boon to the Web developer community, and one that has led that community to express its appreciation by bashing Microsoft when their free gift didn't meet developers' always-growing and sometimes irrational demands. In providing (and constantly updating) these disk images, Microsoft has done a remarkable thing: giving away copies their flagship products, albeit in a somewhat limited form....
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