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== '''Market Insights''' ==
=== Desktop / Platform ===
==== Google ====
* Google has announced a [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/develop-for-good-and-have-chance-to-win.html "Develop for Good" Hackathon] for hackers to tackle issues around repressive political regimes.
* Chrome Canary builds now have [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2012/06/chrome-and-new-shiny.html support for Apple's new Retina displays]
* Independent hacker Hexxeh has [http://www.chromestory.com/2012/06/breaking-official-raspberry-pi-support-coming-to-chrome-os-do-you-have-25-to-spare/ ported ChromeOS to the Raspberry Pi]
==== Microsoft ====
* Microsoft worked with the owners of a number of large websites, including HP.com, Shutterfly.com, UPS.com, and CNN.com [http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/06/14/get-30-better-site-performance-in-ie10-with-html5.aspx to render their pages in HTML5 Standards mode rather than IE8 Compatibility mode]. On average the sites loaded 30% faster in IE10 with the new settings than before. The problems included User-Agent sniffing and use of -webkit- CSS prefixes.
* Microsoft's critical updates for Internet Explorer this month include fixes for [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/13/ie-9-0-7-available-via-windows-update.aspx thirteen security vulnerabilities].
* Microsoft also published a detailed overview of the [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/13/advances-in-javascript-performance-in-ie10-and-windows-8.aspx architecture and features of their Chakra Javascript engine]. A new Javascript [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/14/under-the-hood-bubbles.aspx performance demo, "Bubbles"], was also released.
==== Opera ====
* Opera 12 was [http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/hello-opera-12 officially released], with a number of [http://www.shinydemos.com/ "shiny demos"], hardware acceleration and WebGL support, CSS3 Animations and more.
==== Tizen ====
* Tizen launched the [http://www.tizenexperts.com/2012/06/development-unit-program/ Tizen Development Unit Program], which allows developers to get free handsets to develop against.
==== W3C ====
* The W3C published an [http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/06/interview_huawei_maxthon_qihoo.html interesting interview] with the teams behind the main browsers in China - UCWeb, Huawei, Qihoo 360 and Maxthon.
* The W3C has [http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2012/06/19/css3-media-queries-reaches-recommendation/ published Media Queries as a Recommendation]
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction ==
