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IE8 Released
Congrats to my old team on shipping IE8 . Although my IE focused days are behind me it's great to see the team has put out such a great version. The security improvements and commitment to web standards stand out as major achievements along with performance, Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:36 AM by DMassy | 1 Comments

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Moving to Embedded Standard
One of the people I share an office with (yes I share an office with a couple of others as we have a space crunch but the office does have plenty of windows) - Luca Amapane, has just had a paper published on www.WindowsForDevices.com on Migrating Windows Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:45 PM by DMassy | 0 Comments

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Moving to Win7
It’s time I started blogging here again on a more regular and frequent basis. I’m working on Windows Embedded, which is the embedded version of desktop Windows. This is not the same as Windows CE which is targeted at smaller devices of different architectures Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:54 AM by DMassy | 1 Comments

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Back from Tech-Ed
Tech-Ed continues this week with " IT Week ". Last week was " Dev Week ". I'm back in redmond now after being at dev week in Orlando. If you are at Tech-Ed this week then drop by the Windows Embedded area, learn more about the products and give the team Read More...

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 11:21 AM by DMassy | 0 Comments

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Windows Embedded at tech-ed
I'm back working at Microsoft. I'm no longer on the IE team but working on Windows Embedded . It's a different area and a lot of fun. I'm at tech-ed this week in Orlando. If you are there then drop by the Windows Embedded booth in the Technical Learning Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:03 AM by DMassy | 1 Comments

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Zones, Testing and Dave
I just made a post on the IE Team blog regarding Zones and Mark of The Web . It's always a good idea to test with default settings and run pages in the internet zone if that is where they will be deployed so that you experience what users will experience. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:57 AM by DMassy | 12 Comments

IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3
We just released beta 3 of the developer toolbar. Key changes are outlined in this post on the team blog . There's still lots more work to do in this area we know, but the style tracer functionality is really sweet! Thanks -Dave Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:55 PM by DMassy | 5 Comments

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What's in a name?
There's a little debate going on in the WebAPI working group at the W3C about the naming of some methods. The proposed names in the Selectors API spec include match() and matchAll(). Feedback was given to the WG that this was a too generic and it would Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:22 PM by DMassy | 2 Comments

Strange things Web Sites do!
I'm going to start making occasional posts when I find a website that is doing something particularly bizarre although I won't name the specific websites in question. Yesterday I decided to send some feedback to a local radio station about the lack of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:58 AM by DMassy | 5 Comments

VPC to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine
Great news at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx There is now a Virtual PC image available for XP SP2 with IE6 for free so you can run IE7 and IE6 on the same machine without any need to buy an additional Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:01 PM by DMassy | 10 Comments

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Meet more of the team
All four of the Channel 9 videos where I take the camera on a tour of the team are now avaialble. Part 1 - I talk for too long about IE7 adn then we walk the hallways adn met random members of the team. Part 2 - We chat to Max Stevens on User Experience. Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:49 PM by DMassy | 4 Comments

IE7 Released. Meet a few of the team!
We've released www.microsoft.com/windows/ie It's a product that all of us are justifiably proud of. A video of me giving a tour meeting a few of the IE team is live on Channel 9 There are a couple more videos that will be available in the coming days. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:51 PM by DMassy | 32 Comments

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IE7 - It's Getting Close!
As you can see from the post on the IE team blog IE7 is headed for final release shortly. It's fun reading some of the comments on the team blog. Clearly some people didn't actually bother to read the post or follow the links to the resources for more Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:36 PM by DMassy | 4 Comments

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Ajaxian IE Podcast
www.Ajaxian.com have just released podcast of an interview that Chris, Laurel and I gave a few months ago. We've continued to do a lot of work on IE7 since then. I'm listening to the webcast at the moment and so far everything I've heard remains valid. Read More...

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 8:46 AM by DMassy | 7 Comments

IE Developer Center Refresh
We've just redesigned and refreshed the Developer Center for IE on MSDN. What do you think? As always all feedback on documentation is appreciated. If you see something that is wrong please let us know so we can fix it. Thanks -Dave Read More...

Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 10:02 AM by DMassy | 4 Comments

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