Microsoft’s changes to its research and development operations are much bigger than you think. Here’s how the company is rebuilding its “cool” factor. Microsoft is clearly in the midst of a renaissance, and nothing more clearly indicates this than its aggressive use of open source. Initially a “cancer,” and then an afterthought, open source has Continue Reading…
By any reasonable measure, WordPress is a phenomenon. Altogether, WordPress-enabled sites power 25% of the Internet, and WordPress has a 59% market share of all Content Management Systems (CMS). WordPress has spawned a truly incredible ecosystem of plugins (more than 40,000), themes (at least 10,000), hundreds of thousands of “Wordpress developers”, and thousands of hosting Continue Reading…
The internet is a wonderful place (mostly). An unprecedented revolution in communication, it continues to empower more people to publish and share their knowledge than any other phenomenon in history. It is a limitless playground of ideas and unbridled creativity. Or is it? It All Looks The Same In 2014, Elliot Jay Stocks declared that Continue Reading…
Some site owners may well have been surprised this morning, when checking their analytics, to discover that customers are still visiting them using Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that yesterday Microsoft ended support for any version of IE older than 11—Microsoft will not be providing updates and security patches for them—IE8, 9 and 10 have Continue Reading…
Now that technology is capable of creating the stuff of wildest dreams, designers have simply stopped dreaming, says Elliot Jay Stocks. You click the website link and the assets begin to load. The page is a gigantic photo, filling the entirety of the viewport. In the photo is a group of people – smiley, happy, Continue Reading…
