[H]ardNews 10th Edition

Browser Wars II

Internet Week has an article up talking about the rest of the community gearing up for a new browser war versus Microsoft's Internet Explorer. This war was fought before, with IE coming out on top, but with recent security flaws and lack of updates from Microsoft, it looks like things may heat up again.

But now, in a flashback, the remnants of Netscape—now the open source Mozilla Foundation—have come back with Firefox, and the buzz is building for alternative browsers now that IE has been beset with security problems.

More with Microsoft and IE

No, I'm not obsessed with this. It's just what everyone is talking about today. C|Net has an article up discussing Microsoft's Internet Explorer plans, or lack thereof. Not to say that Microsoft isn't planning something, but more or less the fact that the next major update isn't due until the release of Longhorn.

Once praised for its standards compliance, IE is now denounced by Web developers as outdated.

That pretty much describes everyone's issues with Internet Explorer, well that and security holes.

Die, Spammer, Die!!!!

More litigation coming from Redmond. This time Amazon is in the mix as well. Microsoft and Amazon have filed suit against three Ontario men for sending massive amounts of spam to their customers.

Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, and Amazon.com, the largest retailer on the Web, allege that Gold Disk Canada Inc., a company run by Barry Head and his sons Eric and Matthew, sent e-mails that looked like they came from the Seattle-area companies, a practice known as "spoofing."e

The worst part about this is that these guys are selling home spammer kits to people. We should move them to Texas, where the Death Penalty is legal.