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{ Daily Archives } Tuesday, July 2007

the bad old days …

A school friend of mine, Tom Welsh, recently drew my attention to the great ActiveX standards kerfuffle (and provided most of the factual material below). In December 1995 Bill Gates was becoming alarmed that the new-fangled web browsers from Netscape were cutting Microsoft off from its loyal desktop users. To help defend against the threat, […]

More nonsense from Adam Farquhar …

The UK National Archives (NA) has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MS. For those still who are old (like me) I should mention that NA used to be known as the Public Records Office, or colloquially, Kew, where it is based. It has the responsibility of preserving vast numbers of public documents. These […]