IE8, Standards Mode

IE8 (Due out later this year), will render in “Standards Mode” by default. Web developers of pages that work nicely in IE7 and nothing else can request IE8 to use IE7’s mode via the “http header/meta tag approach”. Hopefully this move will enable much better cross browser and developers of troubled sites will invest the …

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Leap Year???

Well, if you were on site installing exchange on leap year day then you have my sympathy. In a series of news items, the reasons for techies everywhere having problems have been reviled, and not just for problems with Exchange. First, the 25-year-old leap year bug infesting Microsoft Excel… Next hit, Exchange, SQL Server 2008, …

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