Comments: Go Team!

If the figure mentioned (2% of M$'s cash) is correct, it doesn't sound to0 bad... you could easily get 49 more such cases :)

Posted by Henk van Voorthuijsen at May 30, 2003 1:23 PM

Dave,

I was just wondering if you knew of any sites that had good how to's on setting up a blog. I have a server that could host one, but I dunno of any tools that I could use to make a page aside from GoLive.

Posted by Vincent Mortellaro at May 31, 2003 12:01 AM

Listening to the coverage on Marketplace on Thursday, the deal actually makes sense if you view it from the perspective of Time-Warner rathar than AOL.

Posted by Don Hosek at May 31, 2003 2:28 AM

Dave

Tell your wife to use a blogging tool that allows comments. I was cracking up when I read hers. I loved the blog about the mariachi band!

Posted by sj at May 31, 2003 7:21 AM

Vincent,

Check out MovableType . Great, free blogging tool. Easy to setup too.

alex

Posted by alex at May 31, 2003 1:07 PM

Forgot the web address. It's http://www.movabletype.org.

Cheers,
alex

Posted by alex at May 31, 2003 1:07 PM

Rather than looking at it as 2% of MS's cash here's another way to view it.

It's less than 1/2 of the money they cleared in the last fiscal quarter on sales of Windows alone. Office made them almost the exact same amount as Windows in the same period.

Each of those divisions profits to the tune of two billion per quarter.

Microsoft has lost more money selling Xboxes then they spent on this settlement.

Don't forget to thank the DOJ for a smash up job /sarcasm

Posted by Mike S. at May 31, 2003 1:14 PM

There is a serious side, though, if AOL continues using the Internet Explorer engine for seven more years. AOL will never provide that influx of Gecko users which many Mozilla contributors were counting on. And then Safari, with the “Gecko” in its User-Agent: string, will lose out from the safety in numbers which AOL could have provided.

Posted by mpt at June 2, 2003 6:47 PM

True, It is a sad development to see IE go back to being AOL's browser of choice. :(
This is a big strike against the others, sadly.
Oh, and Dave...
In the latest version of Safari (publicly released)...your Surfin' Safari page shows up blank for the index, have to click on one of the recent things on the side for anything to show up. Something shows up for a split second, then goes all white in the upper left of the content area...if I hover over it, it appears to be where you can log into something. Seams like we found another Safari engine bug.

On a completely different note, since I brought up Safari and images...please make Safari show the alt tags, or the image name, while/before it's loading the image. This makes large sites useable while they're downloading on slow connections. :) The whole windows thing of rolling over an area and getting the alt information by the cursor wouldn't be bad either. :)

Posted by Dave SPOOF Hemenway at June 4, 2003 4:46 PM

No, Mr Hemenway, showing ALT text as a tooltip isn’t a “Windows thing”. It’s a bug in Internet Explorer.

Posted by mpt at June 6, 2003 10:01 PM

Well it's one of the best bugs I've ever encountered. Being able to access alt tags can be really quite helpful especially for those with poor eyesite.

Posted by Mickey at August 27, 2003 5:33 AM