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Other than the APIs for fullscreen support, there's little that can be said without violating NDA. Other Apple applications have gone single-window over the years; Logic merged its windows two major versions ago, and Final Cut Pro X just did the same.

Steve Jobs has always preferred single windows. Before OS X 1.0, the toolbar button was instead a toggle for single window mode.

His posts were completely non-hostile, so aren't you overreacting?

"DoS mitigations are implemented in current internal builds and will ship with Silverlight 5 RTM." - Microsoft

This issue is already addressed. It's a non-issue being drummed up by Microsoft competitors. Even John Carmack agrees with Microsoft about WebGL.

Microsoft's reply is at the top of the comments to the article and reads:

"DoS mitigations are implemented in current internal builds and will ship with Silverlight 5 RTM."

I get that the anti-Microsoft droids are out in full force after the article from that Google employee, but come on, a little reading goes a long way.

Carmack is probably more familiar with hardware drivers and 3D APIs than anyone working on Chrome. Plenty of the points made have been refuted in the discussion here.

It's that this article is from a Google employee, and so you're going to get the Google defenders coming out of the woodwork.

But during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Friday, a Samsung executive revealed those figures don’t represent actual sales to consumers. Instead, they are the number of Galaxy Tab devices that Samsung has shipped to wireless companies and retailers around the world since product’s formal introduction in late September.

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