Weighing in at hefty 400 pages is Windows Vista For SENIORS, For senior citizens who want to start using computers. Also in the series is Switching to Windows Vista For SENIORS and More Windows Vista for SENIORS. Yep, more! This next edition is slightly smaller at 352 pages. I am not too sure if Windows Vista would be such a good idea for senior citizens who want to start using computers. Windows XP would seem simpler to use and can still be found on the ultra low-cost machines until June 2010. These machine would also be more suitable alternative for…
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once again said they are done with the talks of a merger. He addressed this question at the annual shareholder meeting today in Bellevue, Washington: “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a bunch of times. Somehow some people have gotten confused nonetheless,” he said in response to a question. One person in the hall at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center then applauded. Interesting, just last month The American Technology Research had indicated that it was “increasingly likely” Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo at a “significantly lower” price.” Also at…
Current Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has announced today he is stepping down and returning to his former role as Chief Yahoo! The news ends an embattled tenure for the Yahoo co-founder, who took over as CEO in June 2007, replacing then CEO Terry Semel. Now the big question is what does this mean for the still lingering merger/partnership/take-over with Yahoo and partnership with Microsoft. Yahoo is not doing so well, the stock has already lost nearly 2/3 (closed today @ $10.63 per share) of it value since the take-over was announced. Back on February 1st Yahoo! stock shot up to…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: Pending Release fixed bugs Freeze – Nov. 10th Updates pushed tonight to coincide with collections & bandwagon dates — thanks to Neil, Fred and the rest of the team for their hard work on collections AMO 4.0.4 – Status: In Process open bugs & fixed bugs Freeze – Dec 1 FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Released Released: Novmeber 12th Feedback overall looks good. We’re having a post-mortem on Friday to discuss any issues during the release process. QA 2.0.0.18/3.0.4 Released on Wednesday Nov 12th! Live bits testing. Writing content…
Just Released AMO 4.0.3 – November 13th Firefox 2.0.0.18 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th Schedule this Coming Week Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Firefox 3.1b2 – November 21st Future Release MU Firefox 2.0.0.18 >> Firefox 3.0.4 – No Earlier than November 24th Firefox 2.0.0.19 – December 16th *FINAL UPDATE* Firefox 3.0.5 – December 16th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b1 – TBD
A quick background on the Vista Capable suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that the labeling of computers as “Windows Vista Capable” misled consumers because many of the machines weren’t powerful enough to run all of Vista’s features, such as the Aero user interface. The scope of the class-action portion of the suit is if the “Vista Capable” labels artificially created demand for PCs in late 2006 during the holiday-shopping season. As more emails were unsealed this week as part of the class-action Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft, it was revealed the original ‘Vista Capable’ requirements as drafted in December…
Mozilla has released the 18th security and usability update for the Firefox 2 browser. For more information about this update see the Firefox 2.0.0.18 Release Notes. Current Firefox 2 users may obtain Firefox 2.0.0.18 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 2.0.0.18 directly here. IMPORTANT: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.
Mozilla has released the fourth stability and security update for the current Firefox 3 browser. For more information about What’s New in Firefox 3.0.4, check out the Release Notes (as of this post were titled What’s New in Firefox 3.0.4 Beta). Current Firefox 3 users may obtain Firefox 3.0.4 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 3.0.4 directly via getfirefox.com
On November 9, 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released. It would be almost a year later on Christmas Day 2005 before I started using Firefox (1.5). Earlier this month Firefox past the 700 Million Downloads milestone. Source: Mozilla Links
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: Pending Code Freeze/Release Code freeze: November 10th Expected Release: November 13th FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending Release Beta Released on Wednesday, November 5th. Watching for feedback QA: Finished BFT, L10n, and Updated testing. Release the Beta on Tues Nov 5th. [abillings, juanb, tracy, tchung, jhaher] QA: Verified bug fixes for 1.9.0.4 and 1.8.1.18 releases (including Thunderbird) [abillings] Expected release date of this Wednesday, November 12 Schedule Code freeze: October 28th @ 11:59 PM PDT Builds start: October 31st QA starts: November 3rd Release to beta channel: November 5th…