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1. Comment - Can IE9 bring back Microsoft's glory days?

   (Sep 16, 2010 - 4:29 PM)

   IE9 beta does look like a solid browser. I have it installed and the speedup is definitely noticeable. And certainly the attention to standards such as HTML5 is unexpected but very welcome. Unfortunately, based on our testing they are skipping some of the details of HTML5 testing. In other words, standards compliance is somewhat window-dressing. Since MathML support in HTML is pretty good via the MathPlayer plugin and MathML is part of HTML5, one might expect that the nirvana of having MathML support in all major browsers without contortions on webservers is finally here. Instead, there are bugs: "MathML in HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 is Broken" (http://www.dessci.com/en.../tech/MathMLinHTML5.htm).

2. Comment - Google Chrome OS: Too little, too early

   (Jul 9, 2009 - 5:45 PM)

   I think they could neatly solve the Developer problem if they could make it so apps developed for the Google OS also run on other browsers. If the programming language is JavaScript, or its next more robust iteration, and browsers have Gears and other more powerful client-side hooks, they would have an easy to program, powerful platform with virtually universal reach.

3. Comment - A wish list for Office 2010

   (Jun 25, 2009 - 4:55 PM)

   Whatever they do in Office 2010, they must bring back Visual Basic for Applications as they've promised. MathType users want their equation numbering back, among other things. And Excel users really miss it.

4. Comment - Next Microsoft Office will continue to support VBA

   (Jan 23, 2008 - 8:29 PM)

   The removal of VBA from Mac Office is creating great pains for the users of our product, MathType. It contains VBA macros for equation numbering and other commands we now can no longer support in Office 2008. Microsoft justifies this by saying that it is hard to port the VBA engine to Intel Macs. This is hard to believe since Windows VBA is obviously running on Intel. It just has to be a marketing move to keep the Mac down, IMHO.
   
   Paul Topping,
   Design Science