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Saturday 17 March 2007

Redmond, Here I Am

So things haven’t been so clear with Microsoft, and my relationship with Microsoft. Many readers are well aware that a few months ago I’d been offered a consultancy with them. Yet, I feel we are all sorts of not on track.

For that reason, I’m now here in Bellevue and on my way to Redmond first thing Monday morning to sort it all out.

Okay, so here’s the thing. I’ve got a contract to consult with Microsoft and do the best I can to represent standards and interoperability.

What would you like to see me do here?

  • Work for IE.next compatibility
  • Train internal Microsoft folks on standards
  • Travel around and evangelize standards and interop
  • Write and edit more materials about standards

Your answer is going to count big-time as I move forward. So shout it out, please. Let Microsoft know who they have and why, okay? I want to do right by interop and standards. I always have and probably always shall. So shout it out with me, okay? What do YOU want? How can I best serve our community whilst here?

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Posted by:   Molly | 23:41 | Comments (385)

Comments (385)

  1. dominisia says Saturday 10 May 2008 at 12:27

    hey, good article, thanks you:)

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  4. Fabienne says Monday 19 May 2008 at 11:11

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    Regards Fabienne

  5. Meissen says Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 05:19

    Thanks moly for your information 😉

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    Very impressive. Supreme concept of a personalized web portal. I look forward to using this as my browsers’ start page. Keep up the good work!

  13. Banka Şube says Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 14:05

    Once you feel that there is a base of standards-competent developers, I would say it’s time to move on to IE.next.

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  15. hanstran says Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 05:02

    Great information, thanks for good work.

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    Many thanks for the useful tool

  17. shopping says Monday 4 August 2008 at 09:24

    I think you need to push for standards in mobile more. Okay, it might seem a little left-wing to everyone else, but the fact is that mobile is growing at an alarming rate and .mobi sites are increasingly becoming a bigger deal. I’m worried that we’re going to find ourselves in a horrible situation quicker than we even think once companies and people realise the power of mobile websites. It really can cause a lot of problems unless we decide and stick on standards right now.

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  21. nico says Saturday 9 August 2008 at 10:28

    You could tell ms that, when they make a crappy browser like ie6 they should ensure, that webdesigner could run that old but often used browser also in vista.

  24. Aufsitzmäher says Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 01:32

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  31. spor yorum says Sunday 4 January 2009 at 12:54

    I think I will search more about this on the Net, Guys. Many thanks

  32. homepage worker says Thursday 15 January 2009 at 14:40

    It might be very interesting to know…
    wheter you are free to represent standards and interoperability?

  34. Moveis Mobiliario says Saturday 28 February 2009 at 16:56

    Thank you for the spent time. Very useful information

  35. webdirectory says Wednesday 4 March 2009 at 08:23

    Really good article with good information for me about Microsoft. Thank you very much.

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