6 posts and columns on W3C

W3C Wants to Invalidate Apple’s Widget Patents

in News on July 11, 2011 at 4:18 am PT

The World Wide Web Consortium is taking Apple to the mat over its refusal to allow some of its intellectual property to be included in the W3C’s widget standard.
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Microsoft on Flash: What Steve Said

in News on April 30, 2010 at 1:39 pm PT

Evidently, Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn’t alone in his low opinion of Flash. Looks like Microsoft’s not a particularly big fan of the Adobe technology, either. Writing in the company’s IEBlog, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer arm, weighs in on the Flash debate echoing some of the arguments put forth by Jobs in his much discussed “Thoughts of Flash” essay.

Chrome Netbooks Headed to Market by 2010 Holidays

in News on November 19, 2009 at 12:15 pm PT

Google’s Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for Google Chrome OS–joined by founder Sergey Brin–discuss how they plan to bring the OS to the market, then answer some questions from the audience.
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Google’s Chrome OS: “It Just Works”

in News on November 19, 2009 at 9:51 am PT

Speaking at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this past July, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said of Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS, “Who knows what this thing is?” Today, he found out. The operating system, a direct challenge to Microsoft Windows, was on display at a media gathering at the company’s HQ this morning, and in the words of Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, it is intended to make computing a “delightful” experience.
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