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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
