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== Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team == | == Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team == | ||
=== Desktop / Platform === | |||
==== Google ==== | |||
* Chrome Web app developers are now able to make use of [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/05/building-efficient-apps-and-extensions.html Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome] to enable efficient notifications to Chrome users. Notifications only work when the user is signed into Chrome. | |||
==== Microsoft ===== | |||
* Microsoft, in a [http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/05/09/building-internet-explorer-10-a-browser-that-is-perfect-for-touch.aspx blog post], released a series of third-party market research reports that described how iPad users were unhappy with the browsers on their tablets, and how MSIE10 performed better than competition from Safari or Chrome. | |||
* Microsoft also produced a short-but-interesting video of [http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Windows+Phone/Developing-in-HTML5-and-Javascript-for-Windows-Phone how to develop for Windows Phone using HTML5 and Javascript] | |||
* Microsoft announced that a free update to Windows 8, [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239203/Microsoft_votes_for_free_Windows_8.1_collects_kudos, Windows 8.1], will be release later this year. A rumoured feature will be return of the Start Button. | |||
* In related news, [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239095/Analysts_challenge_Microsoft_s_commitment_to_Windows_RT analysts are asserting that Microsoft may walk away] from the Windows RT platform due to poor industry takeup. | |||
==== W3C ==== | |||
* A [http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-encrypted-media-20130510/ First Public Working Draft] of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions standard, providing for HTML5 APIs to control the playback of DFM-protected content. An [http://www.fsf.org/news/coalition-against-drm-in-html international coalition of internet freedom organizations urged the W3C to abandon the effort]. | |||
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | == Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | ||