The Times has been working with Microsoft on bringing a "portable" version of the newspaper to laptops and/or tablets running Windows Vista.
The software allows users to view the digital content on any screen size or change the font size. The layout will readjust itself to neatly flow around photos and other graphic images.
Announced today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Seattle. Lets hope there is a Mac version...
It's so lame.
There's this thing called "The Web," maybe you've heard of it? It has a structural markup language called HTML, and a styling layout language called CSS. If you use this, your stuff can work nearly anywhere, Mac, PC, Linux, mobile phone, TV display, etc. The Microsoft/Times approach is _so_ 1996, and probably has more to do with DRM than anything else. Very disappointing, and indicative that the Times is not thinking clearly about digital disintermediation.
Posted by: Michael J. | April 30, 2006 at 12:59 PM