Just in case you didn’t know but the BBC iPlayer has Internet Explorer 9 support in the form of jump lists and media controls when the iPlayer is pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7. Here you can see that I am watching Episodes (the third episode) and when I hover over the iPlayer icon [...]

On Friday Microsoft sent out invites to bloggers, tech sites and news agencies asking them to attend an event on February 10th in which the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC) will be made public. This event is taking place in San Francisco and will be attended not only by IE team members but also [...]

With rumours and speculation heating up about a release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 to be released tomorrow it reminded me of an idea I was shown several months back for an alternative tab design for IE9. I’m sorry, but I can’t remember who first showed me the idea, I know it was someone on [...]

As many of you know I live the “Microsoft Life” (the name of the site is a bit of a giveaway if you didn’t know) and I have no Apple products and use no Google services. Some people may frown on me for doing such but I can now, finally, show people the advantages to [...]

Microsoft have just announced, at a press conference before the main keynote, that the next version of Windows will run on the ARM “System on a Chip” (SoC) architecture found in smaller, more mobile and energy efficient devices. This will allow Windows to run on a larger range of devices and should allow Windows machines [...]

First of all let me just wish all my readers a very happy new year, I hope you have all had relaxing and enjoyable holidays. I’d also like to apologise for the lack of posts on here, I was far busier this festive season than I thought I would be. Anyway, the show must go [...]

I’ve been rather the busy the past few weeks with various coursework deadlines, an Assessment Day at Microsoft UK for their graduate scheme and a few festive events, so apologies for the lack of articles. The absence of articles hasn’t meant I haven’t had things to write about though so here’s some of the things [...]

After using IE9 solidly since the beta’s debut on September 15th I have one major feature request for the browser. I have used many features of the browser and really like how fast it displays pages and elements and obviously like it increased standards support. I think everything works well but because they are some [...]

Early today Gorillaz, in partnership with Microsoft UK, have announced that they want fans of either Gorillaz or of Internet Explorer 9 to design a new character for the animated band. The new character is called “The Evangelist” and is the rumoured avenger of “The Boogieman” who apparently causes Murdoch, the leader of Gorillaz no [...]

Yesterday saw the start of the Professional Developers Conference, for those that were unaware. It started at 9, Seattle time, with Steve Ballmer taking the stage for the keynote. First Ballmer spoke about the number of attendees at the event, despite only have 1000 attendees in Building 33 it was actually the biggest PDC Microsoft [...]