Games of the 2008 Browser Olympiad - Chrome is the new Bronze
During the course of my day job on the OWA team, I've had the opportunity to play with all the new browsers. I thought I'd share my opinions and see what my fellow web developers think. We already know what Walt Mossberg thinks.
Gold - Firefox 3.0
It's pretty fast, it's pretty stable, has more goodies per square inch than the Halloween candy section at Costco, it runs on every desktop OS that matters and most of the world's web sites support it.
Despite my fondness for Firefox, there's still room for improvements. Firebug 1.2 is so slow it's unusable...
The Internet Super Bowl - Microsoft Giants vs Google Patriots
When, I first heard about Microsoft's $40+ billion (1/2 cash + 1/2 stock) offer to buy Yahoo, my first reaction what similar to Mini Microsoft's. To put that figure into perspective, that's enough to buy over 2,000 Trulias (at $20 million each) or 500 Zillows (at $80 million each). That number is like visiting the Boeing factory in Everett, after seeing it; you just walk away with a sense of awe.
Put another way, it will drain Microsoft of its cash reserves and put the company into debt for the first time in its history. Fortunately, Microsoft earned about nearly...