Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Browsers
Microsoft pushes ballot screen to EC, waits for the nod
Microsoft has signed off on the Windows 7 code, and they've already begun pushing it out to manufacturers. Now if they could just get that pesky little situation sorted out with the European Commission...
First they offered to perform an Explorerectomy on the new OS, which would have made it a little annoying for the average user to install a browser on their new system. Not so much for geeks like you and me, who probably have at least one browser installer on a flash drive somewhere in the bottom of our sock drawer.
That proposal was met with a hearty Bronx cheer from Opera brass and EC regulators, so it was back to the drawing board for Microsoft. The new take - pretty much the exact ballot screen setup the EC proposed a while back.
A proposal which led Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner to say "My impression is that the Ballot Screen is the EC's preferred solution and that this will work. Microsoft understands that this solution will work and they are desperate to avoid it."
First they offered to perform an Explorerectomy on the new OS, which would have made it a little annoying for the average user to install a browser on their new system. Not so much for geeks like you and me, who probably have at least one browser installer on a flash drive somewhere in the bottom of our sock drawer.
That proposal was met with a hearty Bronx cheer from Opera brass and EC regulators, so it was back to the drawing board for Microsoft. The new take - pretty much the exact ballot screen setup the EC proposed a while back.
A proposal which led Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner to say "My impression is that the Ballot Screen is the EC's preferred solution and that this will work. Microsoft understands that this solution will work and they are desperate to avoid it."
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
