Will Microsoft slapping “7” on the rebranded Windows Mobile (now Windows Phone) OS be enough to counter Google’s Linux for mobile phones? It’s easy to expand the Microsoft vs. Google antithesis to Windows Phone and Android – proprietary vs. open source, paid vs. free, Windows vs. Linux, etc. Most would ... (read more)
Citeste mai multMore and more open source pieces of software are compatible with the Windows operating system, according to statistics from the Geeknet network. Asked by Microsoft to deliver a perspective over Windows’ position in relation to the open source ecosystem, Geeknet revealed that, at the end of 2009, over 82% of open source pieces of software ... (read more)
Citeste mai multA new release of Microsoft’s visual programming language designed for building games is now available for download for customers running Windows. Just as the previous versions of the game development platform, Kodu is still cooking in the Redmond ovens. In this regard, Build 1.0.34.0 is labeled as a Technical Preview release, this even though when it announced the P... (read more)
Citeste mai multAccording to Google, Internet Explorer 8 comes in last place out of the world’s most popular five browsers in the race for JavaScript conformance. Christian Plesner Hansen, Google software engineer, is basing this conclusion on the results that IE8, Firefox 3.6, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4 and Safari 4 got in the company’s Sputnik JavaScript ... (read more)
Citeste mai multMicrosoft has released to web the latest version of ASP.NET MVC. Designed to provide a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for the ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 runtime, ASP.NET MVC 2 RTW is currently available via the Microsoft Download Center. At the same time, Microsoft is also offering developers the source code of ASP.NET MVC 2 RTW, as it did with version 1 of the rel... (read more)
Citeste mai multMicrosoft has warned customers of its free email service of a new wave of hijacks that is targeting Windows Live Hotmail accounts. According to the Redmond company, attackers use hacked Hotmail accounts in order to send spam to all the people in the victims’ contact list. Rob Margel, working in Windows Services and Content team i... (read more)
Citeste mai multThe wait is almost over for new demos of Internet Explorer 9. Come next week and MIX10, Microsoft will showcase the evolution of IE9 since the first demonstration of the browser at PDC 2009 last year. The Redmond company has already published details on a number of IE9-focused sessions scheduled for the coming week. The official MIX10 website was updated ... (read more)
Citeste mai multA new development snapshot of Opera is now available for download, just ten days after the latest major version of the browser was released to the general public. Opera 10.51 Build 3309 was offered yesterday, March 11th, 2010, but only to Windows users. Opera Software introduced version 10.50 of its browser at the start of this month, having prioritized the ... (read more)
Citeste mai multGoogle is moving forward with the development process of its next major iteration of Chrome for the Windows platform. Early adopters can now download and start test-driving Google Chrome 5.0.342.3, which is also available for Mac OS X and Linux, since the Mountain View-based search giant has synchronized the releases for all supported platforms. Karen Grunberg, ... (read more)
Citeste mai multApproximately two months after the general availability deadline of the latest iteration of its open source browser, Mozilla has given the green light to automatic updates designed to migrate users to version 3.6. According to Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, Firefox 3.6 has already accounted for in excess of 100 millio... (read more)
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