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Mozilla delivers third beta for Firefox 3 browser.

Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting […]

Yahoo will decide on Microsofts offer this week.

According to sources, Yahoo is deciding between just two options. Accept the offer in principal, but get Microsoft to fork over some more coin, or attempt to partner with Google and outsource advertising to the Internet giant.

Microsoft unveils beta-test of SP1 for Windows Vista

After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
Late in the day on January 11, Microsoft posted the new Vista SP1 Release Candidate […]

Open Source’s Non-Problem with Interoperability.

It’s really funny, though a bit pathetic, to see the media pick up a theme and run with it. In this case, it’s the idea that open source has problems with interoperability, and that it’s somehow crimping open-source adoption. This is ironic because proprietary enterprise software has had this problem for decades…and still does. In […]

Internet Explorer 8 to be called Internet Explorer 8!

In homage to The Register (regdeveloper.co.uk), I had to let the title of this blog post illustrate the best of The Register, because its post on the new name for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was surprisingly devoid of the biting sarcasm that epitomizes its work.
This was a “story” begging for sarcasm. What story? Exactly. Bill Gates […]