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 [...]
Today the HTML working group published the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google sometimes wears its source code on its sleeve (Summer of Code), and sometimes it doesn’t, as when it was reported today that Google will be contributing significant source code to MySQL. Given how innovative and engineering-oriented Google is, it’s hard to imagine a better vote of confidence in MySQL and a better code partner [...]
Microsoft says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs last week. The software giant claims that they have made no changes that would alter the Windows Vista update settings.
Reacting to reports that first surfaced last Friday, a program manager for Windows Update said today that an investigation had turned [...]
