I work in a Tech Support Call center for a "major corporation", let's say. In the past, I have despised IE. It's non-standard rendering engine, piss-poor javascript performance, crashy behavior, and worst of all the ActiveX (or as I used to call it, OLE-95) security debacle, made it impossible to recommend or even tolerate one a customer computer. Now, I'm not so sure. IE10 got rid of ActiveX, fully conforms to HTML5, and has fairly decent performance across the board in regards to speed and stability. I've actually recommended that customers calling in use it too. Too bad it is, for the time being, only available for an operating system that is completely retarded and impossible to recommend by itself.

Truthfully, it's a pronunciation thing. "I could care less" comes out a lot easier in most American accents than "I couldn't care less", and the syllable is dropped according to the principles of syncope. ... or should I have explained that with more synergy for continued excellence in our field as we go forward?

Microsoft going open source? This is almost too crazy to believe. Is it that their backs have finally been broken by the onslaught of open source technologies consistently surpassing the level of their own proprietary technologies? Honestly I'd like to see more of this. They don't even really need to allow community contributions, just allow developers to see exactly the source code that they're going to be having to use to develop using the APIs and Interfaces. It's not only helpful to see what you can do, but the precise semantics of exactly what is doing. Technical writers can describe a program very well, but no matter how verbose they are, they will never be able to precisely describe the behavior of a system. The description will always be of what the system is SUPPOSED to do, what it INTENDS to do, and what it's been DESIGNED to do. No amount of English writing will ever describe those qualities well enough, especially stacked up against the ability to view the actual source code used to attempt to fulfill those design specs.