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As an engineer that worked on IE, I can totally sympathize. Your story is one repeated throughout almost every enterprise of sufficient size. That said, there's a middle-ground we …

Remember that this is, in large part, a restructuring of existing orgs and investments. I wouldn't interpret this as the starting gun for AI/deep-learning investments at Microsoft.…

Microsoft engineer here. I would assert we want people upgraded more than anybody else on the planet. Our extended support contracts were designed to be cost prohibitive to encoura…

Browser engineer here (Microsoft Edge). We read HN too. ;-)

The version of IE with Touch Events (Windows Phone 8.1 Update) is no longer in preview. You can buy retail devices with it on it today, actually. For the desktop version, see my re…

yep, we imagined this would be surfaced as a new event.pointerType value, allowing code to specifically target the device if desired.

I can see value in finding a way to expose individual touch points from their new touchpad to JavaScript. We looked at doing something similar in IE, actually, but didn't get aroun…

In Seattle, overnight parking does not cost. They actually have stickers on the parking meters reminding drivers of this in the case that they're planning to drink.

It was most often not the case that (a) vendor prefixed APIs matched a particular "version" of a spec nor (b) were interoperable across browsers at any point (e.g. -moz-foo didn't …

Actually, our approach is effectively yielding the results you're looking for. Removal of old IE legacy cruft is slimming Spartan's disk and memory footprint when compared with IE.…

We're implementing ORTC (which actually gets its origins from outside Microsoft: http://ortc.org/history/ ). ORTC is essentially WebRTC "1.1" and there's active standardization wor…

Yep! We're committed to interoperability and compatibility for sure, and that includes implementing Touch Events. But, we don't see that as a blocker for moving the web forward wit…

Pointer Events is a Candidate Recommendation at the W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/ It has 2 implementations (Firefox has implemented in a special branch and is working to …

On the contrary! I work on the IE team and we're playing along nicely. Google just joined us on the ORTC spec, which Chrome considers to be essentially Web RTC 1.1. http://www.cnet…

I just tested it in 3.6.8 on Win 7). No crash for me. Though Firefox has a hard time rendering it (~30FPS, or about 1/2 the frame rate of Chrome, IE9 Platform Preview 4, Safari, or…

Nice! It's a bit fast, but fun. Coincidentally, I just finished my version about a week or two ago. I used SVG, HTML5, CSS3-Fonts, etc. Check it out: http://www.jacobrossi.com/tech…