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Re:Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer on Friday November 07, 2008 @02:27PM (#356982)
Simply: no, microsoft is not considering adopting WebKit for IE.

This appleinsider article, and others like it, took an out-of-context statement by Ballmer and stretched it into a farce.

I happen to live in Seattle and have friends who work on the IE team. IE8 sports a completely new rendering engine built in-house. It ain't webkit. My friends claim that when it is finished the new engine will render things, y'know, in a standards-compliant manner. Personally, I'm not holding my breath :-)

Re:Obama names tech execs to transition team on Thursday November 06, 2008 @11:36AM (#355842)
change.gov is up, if not exactly pretty :-)

(and i'm curious to see what the Obama administration will do with whitehouse.gov.)

Re:Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public on Friday October 31, 2008 @01:33AM (#349682)
First thought that came to my head after reading the name: "Snipd: It's circumcision 2.0."