Microsoft confirms the plans for third XP service pack and Service Pack3 will be available only after the shipment of Windows Vista as the team now focuses mainly on getting the Vista release
TheHotFix already has the un-official preview of SP3 and the list of things that will be included in SP3.Today, Firefox 1.0.7 is released with the security and stability updates that were floating around the web. Here is the fixes from the release announcement:
The Mozilla Foundation previously issued a patch for Firefox 1.0.6 that protected users against the IDN link buffer overflow flaw at the expense of removing support for IDNs. Firefox 1.0.7 has a more permanent solution that does not involve disabling IDN functionality and any users who installed the patch will find that IDN support is restored when they upgrade
Download link: Firefox 1.0.7
Preston Gralla, a freelance journalist wrote in one of his recent post in O’Reilly Weblogs that the IE7 has more chances to kill Firefox.
With the new beta release of Developer Toolbar and tight security from Vista; there are more chances for Firefox users to switch back to IE in the coming days who use Firefox as an alternative for IE due to the lack of security, tabbed browsing, extensions (IE extensions) and themes that Firefox allows. As IE 7 does support all of these, so there is no question about IE getting much more popular than any other browser in the coming days as IE is integrated with Windows OS.
The author claims, the IE7 beta revealed at the Professional Developers Conference have enough new features that it may stop people from flocking to Firefox. A new Quick Tabs feature, for example, will let you better manage tabs, and gives you a thumbnail view of all of your tabs — something that Firefox doesn’t do. Page Zoom will let you zoom in on text and graphics on Web pages.
Fore more information, check the complete article from onlamp.com.
Yesterday Start.com unveiled the http://www.start.com/pdc. Good one to try it out and we can even add RSS feeds. To add msvistablog.net I just browsed to ‘add content‘ and did a search on ‘Microsoft Vista Blog‘ and my blog entry popped at the beginning and asked to subscribe…thats all…I didnt gave the direct RSS feed … good it picked automatically … (and the search is real fast…within no time we can see the listings ..great work) … even though it lists only top 5 entries and href is not displayed correctly as in the screen shot..I have to see whether it is a bug from my blog or from start.com displaying the RSS feeds. The start.com also has 3 different themes at present (ice, ocean and granite) and you can place the columns wherever you want.
Anyway, you can play with http://www.start.com/pdc as well as http://www.start.com/developer and send the feedback to the start.com for any improvements or suggestions.
Few things that I observed could improve it:
MSN Developer Center is live now. The center aims to provide information on APIs and/or SDKs that can be used to develop internet services and applications which internally enhances information and communication services that reach millions of people.
As a launch, it provides the access to the following APIs and tools/SDKs:
In a side note, check Ian Moulster’s post on What’s hot from day 1 at the PDC? for the day1 breifing at PDC.
Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to “kill” internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive “like wolves,” according to documents filed in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
For the complete article, check msnnine
Intel has taken a $16 million stake in Girisoft, makers of the free AVG anti-virus software program. AVG anti-virus is my favorite and one among the best anti-virus solution that we have now. As per Grisoft press release, it will use the money to grow its customer base as well as “optimize” its software; and this means we can see a better AVG in coming days.
I also found this CNet article on Best antivirus software for home PC
recommending AVG
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