• Internet Explorer may need to die

  Over the past decade, the decline in popularity of Internet Explorer took place in a big way because of the rise of competition. The last big release of Internet Explorer was with Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 6 is dead, at long last, but the ill effects of this extremely…

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• Microsoft Is Rumored To Be Building A New Browser That Is Not Internet Explorer

   Remember when Chrome was fast? Microsoft might, if ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley's recent report that the software company is building a lightweight browser, codenamed "Spartan," bears out. According to Foley, Spartan is "new" and "isn't [Internet Explorer]." Her post notes that it could…

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• Almost every single Xbox executive we profiled in this video last year has left the company

  Boyd Multerer — the genius Microsoft engineer who founded Xbox Live, helped build the Xbox 360, and led the development of the three-operating-systems-in-one Xbox One platform — announced on Twitter today that he's left Microsoft to pursue new opportunities. Multerer has been on leave since…

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• Gmail out in China: How much do you rely on one company?

  This week Gmail is out in China. Most Google services have been disrupted in China since June. Google's own traffic listing for Gmail in China shows the service dropping down to zero near the end of the 25th of December - it's been at around a zero signal since then. Imagine if this happened…

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