Mozilla’s support policy is an older version (in this case 1.5) of an application will (normally) be support for six months after the release of the new version. However there are exceptions, take for instance Firefox 1.5. Given this rule, support should have ended back on April 24th. However the final build (1.5.0.12) was not ready as anticipated so support will officially end when 1.5.0.12 is released on or around May 22nd. On April 18th, Thunderbird 2 was released which means support for Thunderbird 1.5 will end on October 18th. Keep in mind TBird 1.5.0.12 will be released the same…
May 1, 2007
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Over the past few weeks I been following the news that Dell is now offering on some new systems with Ubuntu (Linux) and OpenOffice.org instead of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Today I came across the article Microsoft you had a good run over at One Post At a Time: It seems Microsoft & Windows had a good run for last possible 20 years but as always change happens and seems its Microsoft time to say we give up Microsoft Windows Vista have been latest problem for Microsoft as so many people have said bad things about it – software…
Mozilla’s support policy is an older version (in this case 1.5) of an application will (normally) be support for six months after the release of the new version. However there are exceptions, take for instance Firefox 1.5. Given this rule, support should have ended back on April 24th. However the final build (1.5.0.12) was not ready as anticipated so support will officially end when 1.5.0.12 is released on or around May 22nd. On April 18th, Thunderbird 2 was released which means support for Thunderbird 1.5 will end on October 18th. Keep in mind TBird 1.5.0.12 will be released the same…
Okay, so this is a day late. I had the rare event of having a three-day weekend this past weekend so I kept thinking today was Monday. Anyway here is the latest from this week’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 – Code freeze was last Friday (04/27). RC1 should be out Tuesday (05/01) morning. Estimated Release: May 22nd. REMINDER: Fx 1.5.0.X users 1.5.0.12 is the last update and end of support for this version Thunderbird 2 – Released April 18th. ~1 Million Downloads within first six days! Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 – Alpha 4 released on April 27th. Alpha 5 should…