Filed under: Internet, Windows, Microsoft
A new Internet Explorer every year
by Jordan Running Mar 22nd 2006
During Monday's keynote
at Microsoft's MIX06 conference, Bill Gates turned a few heads by admitting that they had screwed up in allowing
Internet Explorer to languish for so long without an update. Duh for sure, but it's refreshing to hear it straight from
the horse's mouth. Gates said that beginning with Internet Explorer 7, set to make its debut later this year, the Big
Blue E will be
seeing a new version every 9 to 12 months in order to keep up with the quick pace of web innovation. Gates also
revealed that IE7 will include not only an RSS reader, but an "RSS subscription database," by which I assume
he means a directory of popular feeds. "The amount of RSS going on," he says, "is going to
skyrocket." Whatever that means.
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, ...
