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The result is the same when comparing nightly builds. Actually IE updates each month now. Previously only critical updates were included on “patch Tuesdays”, but now features are a…

The VMs are not going anywhere. This is an additional service for those that can’t or don’t want to use virtual machines, or find this more convenient.

> IE11 just got prefetch and pre rendering, something the other browsers have had for years Actually, Safari still doesn’t support either, and Firefox doesn’t support prerender. Se…

You’ll be pleased to know that we just updated it yesterday. A good chunk of ES6 is now under development. See the IE blog for further info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014…

Windows Phone 8.1 Update is final yet. It is in developer preview. You can get the preview right now by registering as a developer and downloading the Windows Phone for Developers …

You can get free VMs at https://modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools . And also a free 3 month BrowserStack trail from the same site.

I believe the data from the Chakra (IE’s JS engine) team hasn’t been updated yet.

It’s under consideration.

Microsoft are contributing to Object RTC, so I see this as unlikely.

There are only 13 features listed there not currently supported in IE and supported by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Of those, 4 are currently in development.

Object RTC is under consideration instead.

Object RTC is developed by a community group at the W3C. It includes people from Google, Microsoft and a number of telecom companies, amongst others http://www.w3.org/community/ort…

You can write native “metro” apps in Windows 8 with web technology and the Win.JS framework.

Even if IE11 has only “almost caught up”, that means, as you point out, that inertia to change will mean existing users will be less likely to switch away from IE, as alternative b…

MS has also focused a lot on security in its WebGL support. For example, it security audits the drivers.

Many people use conditional comments, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying most use them. There are tons of browser sniffing scripts out there on the web. I used to have to deal with…

IE has had auto-update since IE9. IE9 is in the process of being auto-updated to IE10, unless auto-update has been disabled.

I don‘t see why not. Two of the editors of the HTML5.1 spec are Microsoft representatives: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/

EME, MSE, and Web Crypto are very new specifications. They’re just starting to be rolled out in browsers. They’re not going to be rolled out everywhere overnight. H.264 video codec…

The key specs for all this to work are: * Web Cryptography API[1], edited by Mozilla and Google * Media Source Extensions[2], edited by Google , Microsoft and Netflix * Encrypted M…

Netflix already support ChromeOS on Samsung Chrome books using this method. Only that Chrome doesn’t support an end to end solution, as it doesn’t support the Crypto API, so Netfli…

Yes. IE11 will be on Windows 7: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/26/microsoft-internet-explor...

I’m not sure there are many former employees that are speaking out in public. The ones I’ve seen are my own (obviously), Chaals, and Wilhelm’s comment here. All of us left of our o…