Scott Yang's Playground

Microsoft might support OpenDocument if there is enough customer demand. OpenDocument is an OASIS standard, submitted to ISO, and is the standard file format for the up-coming OpenOffice.org 2. Way to go, Microsoft, and please show us how you will embrace the standard! However, if native PDF support in Office 12 can be regarded as [...]

I always enjoyed using Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension when working with web pages on Firefox, and I have always hoped for something similar on Internet Explorer, as in this inperfect world, web developers do need to bow down to some of those inferior but more popular browsers out there. However, my dream has turned [...]

Here is one disgusting picture: Scott McNealy (SUN) and Steve Ballmer (MSFT) Shake hands Here is the press on how Sun and Microsoft has been working together over the last year. Both of them look very happy and were smiling towards each other. I must be very out-of-date with the industry, as I have thought [...]

Via WebMasterWorld. MSN is testing out its beta RSS aggregation service Start.com. Currently only works in Internet Exploder. Dynamic HTML using XMLHttpRequest everywhere – adding/removing feeds, reading news items, etc – none of them require page refresh. Sounds like a stiff competition with Bloglines.

Via Slashdot, that Microsoft has launched the beta version of its own blog hosting service – MSN Spaces. I quickly went and sign up a site (Microsoft Passport login required), and here it is: Scott’s Space on MSN After about 5 minutes of playing around, here’s some unsorted quick comments in point form. Doesn’t really [...]

Some actual questions asked in job interviews with Microsoft. If they are really the case, my chance of working with the empire as a mindless stormtropper seems to be pretty slim, as I can’t answer most of the questions…