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Submission + - Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes

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Dak RIT

on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @11:58AM

Dak RIT writes: "In a blog post this week, Microsoft's IE Platform Architect, Chris Wilson, confirmed that IE8 will use three distinct modes to render web pages. The first two modes will render pages the same as IE7, depending on whether or not a DOCTYPE is provided ("Quirks Mode" and "Standards Mode"). However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test."

Submission + - Zune Sales Continue to Weaken

Submitted by Dak RIT on Monday December 18, 2006 @08:59AM

Dak RIT writes: Market share data for the first month of Microsoft's Zune sales is now available, and appears to confirm that after the initial hype, sales have fallen off dramatically. Microsoft came in fourth for sales during the month of November with only 1.9% of the market. Apple remained unchanged at 62.2%, and SanDisk even managed to increase to 18.4% (looks like the Zune might not even be able to compete with the rest of the market, let alone the iPod). The one surprise though is that the brown Zune is apparently not only being bought, but more popular than the white model.

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