How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008 Making 64-bit Vista SP1 Say It's Vista SP1
Making a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 confirm that it is actually Vista SP1 might require a minimum amount of effort on behalf of the end user, such as right-clicking My Computer and selecting Properties, but things are a tad different when an application is programmed to identify the operating system versions or the service pack releases.
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25.8.20082400+ major sites that IE 8 can't render correctly
As Microsoft moves forward with IE 8 it is hoping to introduce new features that will help stop the bleeding of consumers switching to other browsers.
While many hope that IE 8 will also help to ease webmasters pain of making every site work on every browser, that dream may not come true. Mary-Jo
Foley of ZDnet is reporting that IE 8's incompatibility list is at "2400 major sites and counting". These are sites that do not render
correctly natively in IE 8 and require an IE 7 layer to be running to display to web page correctly.
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20.02.2009AMD claims 'fastest graphics supercomputer ever'
IT vendors seem to believe that if you say the word "cloud" enough, an marginal business idea will yield up revenues and profits. Much the same
thing happened with grid computing - remember that? - before it morphed with utility computing into the even more nebulous cloud moniker. So it is
with the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, which would have simply been another example of a render farm used to create 3D images for computer simulations or
movies if not for the cloud bit. It includes some clever software made by OTOY that allows 3D, high-definition graphics to be rendered on a set of
remote servers and then displayed down the wire to a relatively modest PC or laptop.
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09.01.2009CES Trend #6: The rush to render the iPhone obsolete
No list of trends would be complete without a mention of Apple's iPhone, a device that many handset manufacturers will be looking to beat in 2008 in
order to attract a consumer that is ever more interested in advanced wireless services. Many of those devices will debut at CES next week...
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03.01.2008The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP
This article does have quite a unique twist to it...
Coding Sanity: I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night
I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop.
Look & Feel
Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass; this is mostly offset by the lack of strange
screen artifacts caused by malfunctioning graphics code. You know, almost like static on the screen. This was a once or twice monthly occurrence on my
laptop, and happened on my desktop whenever I logged in, and also whenever I played a 3D game after leaving Vista running for a couple of hours. I
also miss the "orphaned windows" I got on Vista, dialog boxes that would not go away, in a sense they became part of the desktop, since you could
drag a selection from within them, despite the fact that the Glass would render the selection below them. Such crazy graphics bugs appear to be a
thing of the past.
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16.12.2007Kyocera Close To Acquiring Sanyo Cell Biz
Kyocera is apparently close to acquiring Sanyo's mobile phone unit, which would render it the world's seventh largest phone manufacturer...
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14.09.2007Pirated Vista May Be Useless
It looks like Microsoft was
prepared for a leak of their
upcoming OS, and has
officially stated that they
can easily render the pirated
copies useless.
"The copies available for
download are not final code
and users should avoid
unauthorized copies which
could be incomplete or
tampered. This unauthorized
download relies on the use of
pre-RTM
activation keys that will be
blocked using Microsoft's
Software Protection Platform.
Consequently, these downloads
will be of limited value,"
the statement said.
jcxp.net - 20.11.2006
Can Microsoft Out-Google
Google?
For the past decade, Microsoft
has largely ignored the Web as
an emerging platform for
application development with
fears that it could render
Windows obsolete. But that
will all change next week, as
Microsoft unveils a new
strategy for transforming its
Web properties into an open
platform for developers...
betanews.com - 09.09.2005
Even with Vista SP1, Hackers Still Crack WGA
The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed
to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. Various reports point out that Genuine
Advantage Validation and Notifications versions 1.7.69.1 (1.7.0069.1) and 1.7.69.2 released in March 2008, following the March 18 availability of
Windows Vista SP1 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, have been cracked.
The workaround is designed to be integrated
with pirated copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista in order to render useless the WGA Validation mechanism. According to the reports, applying the
WGA crack will permit users of counterfeit versions of Windows to access and download items from Windows Update, Microsoft Download Center and
Microsoft Update. The pirated operating systems with the cracked WGA will pass all validations on Microsoft's websites and offer anything from
updates to applications that are restricted to users of genuine operating systems only.
neowin.net - 02.04.2008
Apple Warns of Dangers of iPhone Unlocking
Late yesterday afternoon, Apple Computer issued a single-paragraph statement reminding its iPhone users that their warranties would not be able to
cover damages to their phones caused by the use of unlocking utilities. The company used a carrot and stick approach, reminding users that an iTunes
Music Store update was on the way, but that attempting to install it on a cracked phone could render it useless...
betanews.com - 25.09.2007
IE 8 Beta 2 Coming! Are your websites ready?
Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in
its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers
drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers. This
commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.
However, browsing with
this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended. This creates a call
to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8. As such, we have provided a meta-tag
usable on a per-page or per-site level to maintain backwards compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Adding this tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to
render content like it did in Internet Explorer 7, without requiring any additional changes.
We are encouraging site administrators to
get their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for
all consumers. To learn more and get started, please follow the step-by-step instructions located at the following link: click here.
jcxp.net - 27.05.2008
Apple to release Safari browser for Windows (Updated)
Update: The beta is now
available for download at the
http://apple.com/safari>Safari
Home page. The direct download
link is available
http://appldnld.apple.com.edge
suite.net/content.info.apple.c
om/Safari3/061-2827.20070611.x
1qX21dQ3kIk70G2vDKN0t/SafariSe
tup.exe>here.
Apple Inc. at its
developer conference on Monday
announced that it plans to
make available a version of
its
http://apple.com/safari>Safari
Web browser for rival
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
operating systems.
Safari 3.0 will run on
Windows XP and Windows Vista
in addition to Mac OS X
Leopard, company chief
executive Steve Jobs announced
during his inaugural keynote
address.
Early
benchmarks show the Apple
browser to render both HTML
and JavaScript at speeds more
than twice as fast as
Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser. Under iBench's HTML
benchmark test, Safari
rendered the page in 2.2
seconds compared to 3.7 for
FireFox and 4.6 for Internet
Explorer. ..
winbeta.org - 12.06.2007
Speed up Windows XP and Vista by turning off unnecessary services
Dennis O'Reilly: The fact is, you don't need all of the services that Windows starts automatically when it boots. Disabling the non-essential
services frees up memory and processor cycles for more important tasks. The trick is knowing which of Windows' automatic services you can do without:
Disabling the wrong service can render your system unusable. If you're careful, you can figure out which automatically enabled services your PC can
do without.
Things would be so much simpler if I could just list which services to disable, but each Windows configuration is
unique, so there's no way to predict which ones are required on your system. That's why I rely on sites such as Charles Sparks' BlackViper.com.
winbeta.org - 09.01.2008
IE8 will render in true standards mode, by default
Thanks to Neowin Chat Moderator Mephistopheles for the heads up in BPN.
In what is probably one of the most fantastic bit of news to
come out of Redmond in a long time, Microsoft has announced today that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way
it can.
Posted on the IEBlog, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for the Internet Explorer team explained that IE8 will still also render
pages in an IE7 compatibility mode but that this mode will not be the default as they had previously announced. The decision to enable
this mode will be left up to the developer of the website being visited, using an http header/meta tag.
“IE8 has been significantly
enhanced, and was designed with great support for current Internet standards. This is evidenced by the fact that even in its first beta, IE8 correctly
renders the popular test known as ‘Acid2,’ which was created by the Web community to promote real-world interoperability,” said Ray
Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect. “Our initial plan had been to use IE7-compatible behavior as the default setting for IE8, to minimize
potential impact on the world’s existing Web sites. We have now decided to make our most current standards-based mode the default in IE8.
While this change may require some work for developers of sites currently designed around Microsoft's previous rendering mode, the changes
required should be minor and going forward will make the development of true standards based websites, that everyone can enjoy, much easier.
neowin.net - 04.03.2008
Chipmaker Hydra's Stunning Work May Render CrossFire, SLI Obsolete
NVIDIA is busily plugging away with its 200 series and marketing various SLI solutions in the form of anything from a pair of 8000 or 9000 cards to its top end -- a pair of 280 GTXs. AMD is similarly pushing its 4850/4870 CrossFire
solutions along with CrossFire for its new dual-GPU 4870 X2 cards. The key thing is
AMD/ATI cards are not compatible with NVIDIA cards -- CrossFire and SLI are two different technologies. Furthermore, most motherboards either
support SLI or support CrossFire -- most don't do both.
Enter Lucid, also known as LucidLogix, a fabless semiconductor designer
(meaning it outsources its chips to other company's fabs, such as TSMC). Lucid is far from a known name in the graphics industry, though that
may soon change. With the help of Intel Capital backing and over 50 patents, it has developed a technology that seems poised to rock the
graphics industry...
winbeta.org - 21.08.2008
Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
betanews.com - 28.03.2007
Microsoft IE 8 Beta 2 Coming! Are your websites ready?
Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in
its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers
drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers.
This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.
However, browsing with
this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended. This creates a call
to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8. As such, we have provided a meta-tag
usable on a per-page or per-site level to maintain backwards compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Adding this tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to
render content like it did in Internet Explorer 7, without requiring any additional changes.
We are encouraging site administrators to get
their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for all
consumers. To learn more and get started, please follow the step-by-step instructions located at KB952030
neowin.net - 27.05.2008
Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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neowin.net - 02.09.2008
IETester Helps You Test Your Site
Sarah Perez: IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web
sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista. Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back
buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special feature that allows you to launch new tabs which render the web site in
different versions of IE. With IE8's public beta just around the corner, web site owners need to verify that their sites are going to display
properly in the new browser, which runs in standards-compliant mode by default. You can download IETester for free (donations accepted) from here. (via Ajaxian)
winbeta.org - 31.05.2008
Technology. Evolution or De-evolution?
With technology having grown to be as widely-used and widely-recognized as it is now, its emergence was bound to have profound effects on human
life.
The Internet, for example, has given us access to news from around the world, new mediums of entertainment, social networking, etc.
It has, to some extent, given human beings the power to transcend their current societies and create new societies online. With such a great power, is
there a responsibility attached?
Marshall McLuhan taught us all that the emergence of new mediums would have to, by definition, render some
previous method obsolete. What happens when the method being rendered obsolete is something that is foundational to human beings?
As an
example let's briefly look at communication as a medium for a brief moment. Can you imagine a future where people speak without voices? Imagine a
more efficient method of speech, perhaps if advancements in technology render speech in its current form obsolete, will we tend to see our naturally
created faculty being rendered obsolete by a subsequent human creation? Over a period of time, just as bats have a reduced faculty of eyesight that
has been caused by their environment, will human beings then lose the ability to speak in the ways we utilize speech presently?
Certainly
civilization in its present form would seem strange if showed to someone from a vastly different time. There are electronic wheelchair machines which
assist in the movement of people with a challenged physical faculty, and do so in a manner that would probably be considered more efficient than the
organic method of walking or running. Why then do human beings choose to walk?
An assumption I'm willing to make is that if there were
to exist, for example, a technology that would bathe and dress us in the mornings with increased efficiency, we would gladly utilize such. Furthermore
and progressively I assume that other methods that increase efficiency would be adopted as well, eventually leading to a redefinition of all our
natural organic faculties.
Such a world may be almost impossible to imagine, a world in which human beings have replaced all that nature
has given them with better, created systems. My question to you is whether or not it is as impossible, for example, as the concept of the Internet
would have seemed in the late 1800's.
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neowin.net - 08.11.2008
More about 2400+ websites and IE 8 compatibility list
We already saw that some 2400+ websites have issues with the new IE 8 browser. To be clear, these 2400+ websites don't render properly in IE 8 due
to the fact that IE 8 is now more standards compliant. When we users upgrade to IE 8 when its released, its going to be difficult to browse the web as
many websites are not yet standards compliant. You can put the blame on Microsoft and argue that it was/is Microsoft's fault. With so many
websites failing, Microsoft has to help itself from the 'breakdown of web' when IE 8 is released.
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neowin.net - 21.02.2009
