BBC is covering MIX. And how ?
“We are placing the internet at the centre of our strategy,” was the key message that Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer of Microsoft, got over to the attendees at the company’s Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this week.
Yeah right. You can do that buying Yahoo.
Previously the typical view of the internet was something that a PC would connect to. Now internet aware devices are becoming more commonplace. From 3G enabled smart phones, to digital music players and gaming machines; more consumer electronics are going online.
Here “previously” stands for 1999
This web of devices can be viewed as many small pieces, loosely joined. Developers want to spend more time writing one program that can run on many of these devices, rather than have their creativity suppressed because they must spend time testing compatibility across the range of products.
Who is saying this ? Microsoft ? Don’t you find something funny here ?
In recent years alternate browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox have become increasingly popular, in part due to following internet standards in how pages are displayed - subtle differences between browsers can sometimes make pages look different on IE than in Firefox, for example.
This is no longer the case - the part of IE8 that displays a page has been completely re-written to be standards compliant, much like Safari and Firefox.
Who are you kidding ? Microsoft, are you the new Google ? We mean in just making “hollow announcements” without any substance. (the “beta tag” for a start)
The key will be for Microsoft to continue to operate in the currently turbulent business environment, while giving their product teams the confidence to ignore the distractions, such as proposed mergers with Yahoo, and continue to develop the software.
No comment ! Seriously is this coverage ?
At this rate we should depend on “Live bloggers” like Long Zheng perhaps ? 
