Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right

Mozilla's return volley isn't as strong as Microsoft's serve, but does it need to be?

There's no denying that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 release is a heftier upgrade than Mozilla's new Firefox 2.0 release. Where Microsoft has significantly added to the feature set, Mozilla has tweaked its feature set. (It was already ahead in the features war.) The question is: Are those tweaks e... [More]

IE browser bug looks kind of familiar

Secunia spots a problem in 7 that lurked for years in 6

A security problem originally found in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 6 browser has returned to haunt IE7, the new version of the browser launched two weeks ago, a security consultant said Monday.

Danish security consultancy Secunia AsP posted an advisory regarding an issue where an attacker could potentially snare logi... [More]

Windows CE 6 to be Completely Shared

Last May, when a new version of the embedded operating system Windows CE was announced by Microsoft at an embedded systems conference in Las Vegas, the company indicated that a larger percentage of its source code would be available for licensed sharing than for Windows CE 5.0, for which 56% of its source code could be licensed.

The questions on developers' minds were, does this mean Micr... [More]

Vista licensing also limits benchmarking

Don't test, don't tell? The latter, at least, for the new OS

License transfers aren't the only thing the End User License Agreement (EULA) for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system limits. The license also puts restrictions on how benchmarks of certain components of the operating system can be published, another issue that is raising eyebrows as Microsoft still has not clarifie... [More]

iTunes for Windows 7.0.2

iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library, allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes, the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7,500 songs in your pocket, automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire. iTunes gives you the ability to generate dynamic Smart Playlists that refle... [More]