Firefox 3.0.11 welcomes 150 million users
Within twenty four hours from being released, the Firefox 3.0.11 browser it was downloaded a massive one hundred and fifty million times.
The significance of this follows the announcement from Apple who reported that after three days from release its new Safari browser was downloaded eleven million times.
These figures have probably been topped up with [...]
Microsoft installs a Firefox extension
The software giant slipped in a security update on millions of computers, this is an add on for the millions of users who have chosen Mozilla’s Firefox as their browser.
A lot of users will not be too pleased about this additional add on, and therefore will no doubt head over to the add on’s interface [...]
Windows 7 RC instructions
There are various dates coming out as to when the full version of Windows 7 will be released, the latest being that Acer will be producing a new line of computers that will be running the operating system by October of this year.
But for those who do not want to wait, then there is always [...]
Windows 7 closer than we think
Microsoft have been trying their hardest to put XP behind them, but no matter what steps they take it seems that users are just too reluctant to give it up.
However, once more Microsoft will be forcing the issue; they need to do this because of the new operating system Windows 7 is virtually good to [...]
Has Microsoft messed up the launch of Internet Explorer 8, some experts think so and according to the figures released through Net Applications but whatever the figures and comments made from experts it is the computer user who dictates the success of product.
In the past Microsoft have been experts in marketing and spin, but recently [...]
Is a rebrand for Live coming?
There has been a lot of talk or rather whispers about the Microsoft search engine Live; this has come about through the use of Twitter the micro blogging site that has recently been getting a surge in traffic and publicity.
It turns out that a Microsoft executive has been testing the new search facility and according [...]
Microsoft sued over downgrade charge
Somehow we knew that something like this could happen, Microsoft are being sued by a woman after they charged her around £45 to downgrade her Windows Vista operating system to Windows XP.
This could be the start of a long winded nightmare for Microsoft as the woman, Emma Alvarado from LA, is inviting other Windows users [...]
Windows 7 tested by anti trust people
After the rulings in the past, it looks as if the anti trust, regulators will be taking an even closer look at Windows 7 than they have done with any other Microsoft product before. They will be checking through the operating system to ensure that it complies with the 2002 anti trust settlement.
This means that [...]
IE has a new bug
A bug, which is yet to be patched in IE7, is also found in IE6, IE5 and even the beta IE8, this bug is being exploited by hackers on computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
Microsoft have issued some stop gap solutions is to disable some of the [...]
Other ways to get Windows updates
Most computer users have Windows installed on their computers, but one thing that a lot of users do not like is the fact that Microsoft handles the automatic downloads. Effectively this is giving the company access to your computer, which is something that users do not like at all.
However, as we have seen in the [...]