Jason H. Davis

Jerry Seinfield is teaming up with Bill Gates to help improve Microsoft’s vista image problem. They’ve recently launched their second ad (4:30s long). It’s clear that Seinfield had a lot to do with it, but there doesn’t seem to be much about what makes Vista better.

This may be good at lightening up PCs image, but Bill Gates is really old. And Jerry Seinfield was on a popular sitcom in the 90s. Hardly seems relevant to my computing experience.

Mostly using a Mac, I don’t have access to Internet Explorer. I looked at the redesign of my website today on IE 7 and it looks terrible. There’s nothing there (hardly). It’s terrible that the most”;advanced” browser from one of the largest software companies in the world does not render code correctly. I shutter to think that the site looks on Internet Explorer 6.

What’s sad is only around 20% of web users use Firefox which scores a 71/100 on the Acid 3 test for Web Standards compliance. Internet Explorer gets a 12; it doesn’t even render the text correctly.

Firefox 3 will be released on the 16th and hopes to set the world record for most software downloads in one day. They’re calling the release Download Day (D-Day).

I’ve been using Firefox 3 for the past 4 months or so and absolutely love it. With each new Beta version that comes out I’ve seen better and more useful features being added. I’ll be downloading it on D-day along with over a million other people. It really is the best browser out there, even the Wall Street Journal thinks so.

Anyway, that’s enough software soap-boxing for today. I’m off to use hacks to make my website complaint with Internet Explorer.

-Jason