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Microsoft already delivered IE10 platform preview
Microsoft is on a roll! After making IE9 available for general delivery through Windows Update just in the past week, Microsoft today announced that the first platform preview of IE10 is available for download. It usually takes up to a year from platform preview until final release, but with Microsoft's fast-paced development, perhaps it will be sooner. Whatever the final release date, it looks like IE10 will be the ver...
Apr 12, 2011, 2:22 pm - Todd

ASP.NET AJAX: Replacement CSS add/remove functions
I came across a major performance issue in the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library (JavaScript library) today. Because the nature of the issue is engrained in the client library code, the only way around it was to completely abandon use of the functions that add, remove, and test for the existence of class names assigned to DOM elements, and develop my own. Specifically, the following functions are involved/affected:...
Nov 28, 2008, 2:15 am - Speednet

Another reason to stop using IE7 now
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) like IE6 before it is a dying browser that is losing support all over the Internet. Continuing to use IE7 will result in a much worse Internet experience, that's going to continue getting worse by the day. At this point, there is not a single reason to avoid upgrading to IE8. Anybody using IE7 can easily upgrade to IE8, and there are no more sites left that don't work with IE8. This week Google announced that its a...
Jun 2, 2011, 8:53 am - Todd

Browser makers say decry the use of antivirus -- except Microsoft Defender
Anyone who has visited my blog in the past probably knows that I have been advocating for years that Windows users should completely remove all anti-virus software except for Microsoft's built-in Defender software (which used to be called Microsoft Security Essentials). Now it seems that major technology companies the companies that build the web browser that you are using right now to look at this post are saying the same thing. Using Mc...
Jan 29, 2017, 11:12 am - Todd

IE10 now available for Windows 7
It's a preview version of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), but to my eyes it's a complete web browser that is fine for anyone to install. Unlike previous releases of IE10 for Windows 7, this is a complete interface, and it looks and works just like IE9. My expectation is that Microsoft will only make subtle tweaks to this before releasing the final version soon. By subtle , I mean there will probably only be little performance...
Nov 13, 2012, 12:47 pm - Todd

Trouble With Vista
I don't have many nice things to say about Vista OR Microsoft 2007 Office. The new desktop computer is not being used for project work right now - the operating system had to be reloaded and some of the software and files have yet to be re-transferred. If I weren't using it for Internet access it'd be about as useful as a boat anchor....
Apr 6, 2008, 6:58 am - johnph77

300,000 Messages
I wonder how many other people noticed that we just went over 300,000 messages posted at Lottery Post? That is a tremendous amount of lottery knowledge and data all in one place - a resource unlike anything else in the world. I'm looking forward to the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which has a number of programming facilities that will enable me to build a more robust and fast searching capability. Then the whole Lottery Post forum database will be instan...
Apr 12, 2005, 4:21 pm - Todd

No More Internet for Them
An excellent article appearing in today's LA Times Fed up over problems stemming from viruses and spyware, some computer users are giving up or curbing their use of the Web. By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer Stephen Seemayer had the first Pong video game system on his block. A decade later, the Echo Park artist was the first in his neighborhood to get a personal computer. And in 1996, he was so inspired by the World...
Jan 14, 2005, 12:38 pm - Todd

NoteWorthy Laptops at this time
In no particular order: Acer Chromebook 14, Aluminum, 14-inch Full HD, Intel Celeron Quad-Core N3160, 4GB LPDDR3, 32GB, Chrome, CB3-431-C5FM...
Aug 21, 2017, 8:17 pm - MonEl

Windows XP Operating System and Old Computers.
I am still using Windows XP and it still works just fine. It does because I use Firefox and other browsers based on Firefox that still work with Windows XP. Some software companies and people are just now beginning to make software that doesn't work on Windows XP, but thru the years I have downloaded dozens of freeware programs and the best freeware programs that I could find, so now I have quite a lot of them and for the most part I don't need any more software of any-kin...
Jun 25, 2016, 11:14 pm - MonEl