DISQUS

Tim F. · 5 months ago

"The days of Microsoft trying to lock out competitors via sites that only worked for Internet Explorer are long gone."

Try to get a "Suggested Site" that isn't Microsoft affiliated. Try to explain why the default browser search engine page features Google half way down the page buried between Truveo.com and Bidtopia (who? what?). http://www.ieaddons.com/en/searchproviders

Oh yeah: "Microsoft is focusing on saving the Internet user’s time by keeping them away from Google’s life-eating search box." Are they really trying to save me time or is the lack of lock-in court-sanctioned and yet they still try just about anything to keep me away from Google that they can get away with?

RP · 5 months ago

MS is doing what it can to fight Google. Fair enough. Be it using affiliate sites, burrying goole search under whatever. Doesn't matter it's all fair game. However, this time they actually did a good job with ie8 and although rendering is slower than web-kit browsers, they're right, it's more important to have those accelerators than fast rendering.

Tim F. · 5 months ago

I don't have anything wrong with it (besides the fact that they look like asshats who don't get it by burying the few useful accelerators). I use them myself. I just wanted to point out that it's not all altruism and making the web better. What's hilarious is that there is a surprising dirth of accelerators for their own products and services. Even when they get it they don't get it.

Xeon21 · 5 months ago

Because you think that Google, Apple do it for the sake of offering a better world to leave in? How naive you are!!!
Google and the others are not worse nor better - they are all doing business !

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Wait a second... who wrote this? Paul, or did he just paste something that a Microsoft PM wrote? I particularly love this:

The days of Microsoft trying to lock out competitors via sites that only worked for Internet Explorer are long gone.

(The clip below is done in Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, rather than Flash. I had problems getting it to play in my Chrome browser, and it developed a mind of its own while playing in Internet Explorer 8, too. You can accelerate yourself by skipping the first minute to watch the first test, which begins at 0:55.)

No, they're not locking out sites by using browser-proprietary content, not at all... just proprietary video? I mean, the irony? Anyone?

So, seriously, was this an article or a marketing piece? Either way, it reads like a joke.

Ken Bundy · 5 months ago

*WARNING* Do NOT use Internet Explorer 8 - this web browser has unacceptable security vulnerabilities.

Prince Arora · 5 months ago

I wrote my thesis on the subject of improving task performance & saving time while browsing using a browser utility. One major flaw with these utilities are that they open a layer window on your current working window requiring you to take action on it, due to this behavior you cannot reference back to your original window or do any comparison. My approach was to do simultaneous browsing (side by side) instead of sequential (window on window), I wrote a Firefox add-on for that - www.omture.com, it's goal is to save time while browsing, you can multitask and use it for comparison.

It is interesting to note that MS does not compare Accelerator to Add-ons. Just like Firefox add-on user has to add/install Accelerators. They are comparing out of the box functionality. What if Firefox comes with basic preloaded add-ons? The video says they will talk about add-ons in the next video, looking forward to see what MS has to say on that.

Prince Arora
www.omture.com