Earlier this week in my Which will come first? entry, I mentioned there were rumors IE7 would be coming out sometime this month.  Today, IEBlog has announced one last Expert Zone Chat this coming Thursday (10/12) prior to the release of IE7.  Now, this is hinting IE7 could be coming out as early as Friday. Again I should stress if there is a release this week it is only going to be for on demand installs. This means users will have to download and install the application themselves, in lieu of it being pushed through as a Windows Critical Update. …

The third and final release candidate for Firefox 2.0 should be coming out around October 15th. The code freeze is set for tonight at 11:59 PM PDT. There are still several bugs which are being worked out for this RC. There will not be any more theme changes as the Firefox 2.0 theme is done now. From The Official Win32 20061010 [Branch] Build Page… Mike Schroepfer wrote: Firefox 2 RC3 There are a handful of security and stability bugs we’d like to see get in before the final FF2 release. Thus we’ll be doing a third release candidate. As with…