Microsoft has announced it will kill off Internet Explorer 11 desktop app on June 15, 2022, on most versions of Windows 10.
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What Bill Gates said about the internet in a Microsoft internal memo 25 years ago today: It’s a ‘tidal wave’
Exactly 25 years ago today, on May 26, 1995, Gates wrote an internal memo to Microsoft’s executive staff and his direct reports to extol the benefits of expanding the company’s internet presence
WebAssembly is now ready for browsers to use
WebAssembly, a portable code format that could make for a faster web, has moved to minimum viable product (MVP) status, with browser vendors now able to switch WebAssembly on by default. A recent bulletin from Mozilla Senior Staff Engineer Luke Wagner said representatives of the four major browsers agreed that the design and binary format were complete to the extent that no further design work was doable without implementation experience and significant usage. Browsers represented included Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and WebKit, which is Apple’s browser engine for…
Store and Ads to Deliver $189 Billion to Publishers in 2020
Apps are increasingly becoming the go-to resource for communication, entertainment, shopping, productivity and more. As a result, the time consumers spend in apps has exploded. Coupled with the growth of the global installed base of smartphones and tablets, this will set the stage for significant revenue growth. This expanding revenue opportunity will not be exclusive to the top apps and categories, but will be more widely spread across the app economy. In order to fully capitalize on the app economy’s exceptional growth, publishers need to anticipate future market opportunities when…