Industry says ho-hum to Netscape lawsuit. High-tech industry lobbyists issue a collective yawn after Netscape files suit against Microsoft. Even Sun--a company full of rabid Microsoft bashers--is mum. [CNET News.com]

Another day, another lawsuit. It's hard for me to sympathize with netscape when I made my decision in broswers based on the features. I remember a guy from netscape speaking at my college. In my memory he spoke slowly full of remorse.  He went into detail with all the things that had gone wrong. Falling behind on features, not building netscape to be embeded in other apps, the inability to keep up in the distribution arms race.

I guess there is some good news in the browser market. For the first time in a while some of my friends are considering mozila again, they like the tabs (like from excel).  The normal ie browser isn't getting much attention internally anymore, but the internet is integrating more and more. I'm starting to wonder how long the web itself will last as we know it, when html pages stops being the dominant metaphor.

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SXSW award finalists. Nicely designed sites.  [Scripting News]

There is hours worth of stuff to explore off of this page.

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There is now a KB Article on some of the stuff I tested for windows XP.

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Adam Barr wrote a story on osOpinion Microsoft's New Security Focus: Less and More Than Meets the Eye. From what I understood of the UPNP issue, prefix probably wouldn't have found it (I don't know if it did or not).  For all the preperation in the world, your code will still have at least one bug, with a certain precentage chance of being a security bug, the best you can do is first raise the bar and second not make the same mistakes twice.  I'm a bit more intrigued about his comments on privacy. While there have been bugs in IE with privacy implications they are considered the same as security bugs. So is Adam talking about the way windows manages person information? That gives us the passport integration, activiation, and error reporting (I'm probably missing what Adam is thinking about). Passport is generated with just a valid email address. Activation uses no personal information at all. Error Reporting could potentially give a chunk of personal data from whatever crashed, but it tells the user of that risk, defaults to "Don't Send" and provides a link to more information on what exactly would be sent and the privacy policy that data is under. Internet Explorer in the version that shipped with XP introduced privacy policies for cookies. 
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