Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

August 2008

• IE8: Web slices, visual seach and accelerators

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 28 Aug 2008

web slice allow web users to keep track of things that interest them, using the Favourites menu ba

• Top productivity features in IE8 beta 2

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 Aug 2008

Faster browsing, a quick URL competion tool and visual serach are among the tools Microsoft has inckuded in IE8 beta2 to make web browsing more intuitive.

• MS boosts Linux interoperability - really?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 22 Aug 2008

$100m MS is spending $100m on Linux interoperability. That's like Steve Balmer's loose change. MS probably spends more on its campus canteens per year than this.

• The quality of software should be rated

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Aug 2008

"good enough software" is a bit like a one-star hotel. It's all about managing our expectations.

• DVLA: a customer oriented architecture

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Aug 2008

The really clever thing about the online car tax renewal system is that it somehow links together data from car insurers and MOT testing stations to the DVLA. I suspect it is based on some sort of ...