After much delay, Mozilla finally made the first beta release of Firefox 3. I was extremely unhappy with Firefox 2 when it was first released because of memory leaks and bloat. I felt that the developers put much more effort into the Windows version than the Linux or Mac OS X versions and my thoughts [...]
I guess the EU hates Windows as much as I do.
Studies show that Linux is more rapidly taking developers from Windows. Potentially this could cause a shift in where the “it” applications live and draw more users to the Linux desktop.
It looks like Dell isn’t done with Microsoft yet. They’ve joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance, giving it “industry” validity. I don’t know how much I like this and it’s hard to say were the future of operating systems is going. Microsoft’s got their foot in the door with the Novell alliance but now that a big [...]
Lately Microsoft has been doing a lot to stay (get back in?) the game. Microsoft Live was released to compete with Google, the Zune was released to compete with the iPod, Vista’s 3D desktop to compete with Linux’s Beryl and Mac OS X’s effects, Vista’s new not-so-retarded desktop search to compete with Linux’s Beagle and [...]