Showing posts with label Internet Explorer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Explorer. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Internet Explorer Ad Attempts to Overcome Negative Product Bias


While companies such as Apple and Google frequently enjoy positive product biases for their products, Microsoft has been fighting negative consumer bias with its products for many years, and in no fight has it had to try harder than with its Windows-native browser, Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer was once the bug-ridden, standards ignoring, virus inviting, toolbar-loving mess of a browser that left many computer users in search of something better. With the advent of Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome, Microsoft has a fierce uphill climb against negative publicity the browser has received over the last decade--and continues to receive as long as it retains its current name, despite its recent metamorphosis.

How can technological bias' effect our abilities as educators to provide the best products and tools for students' learning?

Via: The Verge
See Also: Beauty of the Web

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Do Not Track: Controversial, But Should it Be?



Mozilla's Firefox and Google Chrome include a feature called "Do Not Track"--a feature left on by default in Microsoft's most recent update to Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 10 (The browser included by default on Windows 8 which today launched a preview for users of Windows 7.)

Do Not Track is a feature which "opts out" of cross-site tracking. Advertisers are angry at Microsoft for having the feature enabled by default, and consumers are surprised that Microsoft, once the largest of the tech giants, is being so pro-consumer in its behaviour.

More Reading: ZDNet, The Verge, Wikipedia