Archive for May, 2007

Snippets of IE8 info revealed during MIX’07

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

The first IE8 hints were made on the MIX’07 session called “IE Past, Present, and Future” by developer Chris Wilson.

IE8
IE8 is likely to include a better user interface than IE7, which has been heavily criticised.

Internet Explorer 8 will be the primary user interface for Silverlight application, which compete against Adobe’s Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash). IE8 will have improved RSS, CSS and AJAX support, it will also have support for microformats, small tags embedded in the HTML code that can be used in different ways by software applications such as calendars or contact managers.

By the way, Mozilla’s Firefox 3 will also feature microformat support.

The release of IE8 still remain unknown, but will be under development for at least another year.

Hotmail & Web 2.0

Monday, May 7th, 2007


Microsoft annouced to the world of the availability of Windows Liveā„¢ HotmailĀ®, which replacing the MSN Hotmail. As the most signaficant upgrade for Hotmail since 1996, currently is launching globally in 36 languages.

This revamped Hotmail now features Ajax navigation, drag and drop message filing and tighter integration with Microsoft Outlook. Later of the month, user will be able to access their Windows Live Hotmail email and contacts by using Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007.

Wanna try that out? You can logon to hotmail. If you already have Hotmail account, you can update to Windows Live Hotmail by logging into your account and click on the green “Join Windows Live Hotmail” button.