Mozilla accepts, will work with Microsoft to see Firefox, Thunderbird work on Vista
Mozilla has accepted Microsoft's offer for the two competitors to work together to ensure Mozilla's Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email suite work more seamlessly on Redmond's upcoming Windows Vista operating system (OS).
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25.8.2006 Java works on Vista
Vista hopefuls who have been told that Java will not work on their machines after they install the new super soaraway operating system have been mis-informed, according to Sun.
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10.10.2006 IE8 Beta 2 Next Month, Final IE8 by the End of 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008.
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29.7.2008 Sun Opens Java Source Code Under GPL
Hoping to increase usage of the programming language, Sun said Monday that it would be using the GNU General Public License (GPL) to open source the Java platform. Beginning today, source code would be available for both the Standard (Java SE) and Micro (Java ME) editions.
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13.11.2006 Hacker at work
Bill Gates: How I work
Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business.
Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft, U.S.A.
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5.4.2006 When colleague is boring in work
ISPs don't work for the RIAA?
The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders.
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15.2.2007 Will My Applications Work on Windows Vista?
One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is? How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?
We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common problem areas we found for applications to help give you an idea of what applications might have problems for you.
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8.1.2006 Microsoft: Lots of CSS Work Still to Do
Internet Explorer program manager Markus Mielke acknowledged that Microsoft has a long road ahead in efforts to achieve CSS standards compliance, saying IE7 was only a "stepping stone." The company has made over 200 "behavior changes" for CSS 2.1, which it outlined Tuesday.
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23.8.2006 Windows Vista: More Work in Progress
Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No."
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5.1.2007 Microsoft Halting Work on "Photoshop Killer"?
According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year, and is currently available for download from Microsoft (see link below).
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13.3.2006 Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.
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14.11.2006 The Ways Vista Makes Office Work Better
Microsoft's co-launch of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the first time since Windows 95 that the company released an operating system and office productivity suite on the same day. And it may be (a bit) more than just coincidence or a marketing push.
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31.1.2007 Ballmer describes Vista as work in progress
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is "a work in progress", and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release.
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18.4.2008 Pinned: Unconfirmed: Sony may work with Microsoft over PS3
Sony expects to ship over 100 million PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles, according to Tetsuhiko Yasuda, Sony Computer Entertainment Asia's corporate executive managing director and senior vice president of Asia. He also said Sony may work with Microsoft in the future.
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18.2.2006 Microsoft "Hack Day" is creative play at work
A group of 75 Microsoft developers set out Thursday to brainstorm at an internal event called "Hack Day."
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8.4.2006 MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems.
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23.8.2007 Windows 7’s XP Mode will only work on select Sony Laptops
Windows 7’s XP Mode will not work on all Sony laptops that have hardware virtualization capability, despite being equipped with fully capable Intel Core 2 Duos.
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11.8.2009 IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback.
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24.11.2008 IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing
This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough that some context and even history (before we go into any particular feature) is important, and so some readers may find this post a bit basic as it’s written for a wide audience.
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26.6.2008 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Microsoft IE8 trial coming soon
Internet Explorer 8 will be released as a beta test version later this year, according to a Microsoft source. Windows XP is apparently included in the plans for the new web browser.
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26.6.2007 Lukewarm reaction to first IE8 beta
Yesterday at the MIX '08 session, Microsoft employees Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch and a host of Microsoft partners touted the new Silverlight and IE8 betas to what could be seen (from my perspective) ..
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6.3.2008 Wanted: IE8 Beta Testers
As previously mentioned in the IE8 Beta Feedback post back in March, we have several ways to submit feedback on the IE8 Beta.
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31.7.2008 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007 The First Look at the IE8 Beta 1 Graphical User Interface
Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1.
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3.3.2008 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 in August
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is
approximately a couple of months away.
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3.6.2008 IE8 Performance vs. Google Chrome and Firefox
With Microsoft making headway towards the gold build of Internet Explorer 8, the Redmond company has to face an ugly truth. Performance-wise, with emphasis on JavaScrip performance, the software giant is getting ready to release a browser inferior to what is already available from rivals Google and Mozilla.
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27.9.2008 Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week
Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate.
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22.1.2009Java Kernel plan proceeds
Sun continues to work on the Java Kernel, the idea of which is to provide a subset of the Java Runtime Environment tuned to particular programs.
Formerly known as Java Browser Edition, the Java Kernel is planned for release as part of Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 update 4,
probably in early-2008, a Sun representative said on Friday. Developers will have early access to the code to provide feedback.
An original intent was to make Java like a Flash plug-in and enable a resurgence of Java on the browser. Applications would specify which features
they need, such as Swing and XML parsing, said Sun staff engineer Ethan Nicholas, who is working on the project.
"The basic idea
was that the current Java Runtime Environment is simply too big, and most programs require only a small subset of the functionality," Nicholas wrote
in September 2006 on his
blog.
"The 'browser edition' that I suggested would enable you to install exactly the subset of Java that your particular program required, but you would
be able to download all of the other functionality on demand (and thus be fully compatible with J2SE)." ..
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25.08.2007Java SE 6 Tries Smaller Footprint, JavaScript Support
Having just emerged from a
public beta process that began
in the spring of 2005, and
especially now that Java is an
open-source project,
developers will find little to
be surprised about in Sun's
newest Java SE 6, released
yesterday. But one sign that
even Java is adapting with the
times is its new support for
external scripting engines...
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13.12.2006Apple Fixes Java
Vulnerabilities
Apple has issued a security
update to patch a potential
vulnerability within Java
affecting Mac OS X 10.4.5. A
specially crafted application
could bypass built-in security
and allow access to system
files by an intruder. The
problem is located within Java
Web Start, which loads Java
applications over the
Internet...
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20.04.2006Sun Opens Java Source Code Under GPL
Hoping to increase usage of
the programming language, Sun
said Monday that it would be
using the GNU General Public
License (GPL) to open source
the Java platform. Beginning
today, source code would be
available for both the
Standard (Java SE) and Micro
(Java ME) editions...
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13.11.2006I'll take a Java to go please
Sun Microsystems has been developing a new solution to bring Java programmers and applications to the mobile phone to help compete with developers
like Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe Flash. The introduction to Java on the mobile phone will open up more functionality on a portable device
along with greatest flexibility on how Java developers can create better content and mobile phone applications. So far the line up of compatible
phones are Sony Ericsson, LG, Sprint, Orange, Cynergy Systems, and MobiTV. Even though some phones already come with Java preinstalled onto the
phone, the new mobile Java FX is going to prove to be great for developers for mobile phones to cash in on the application marketplace.
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13.02.2009A better Java for Firefox 3
Sun Microsystems has announced an important update to its ubiquitous Java plugin which allows Java-based web applications to run across all the
supported operating systems and browsers.
The new version, labeled
Java SE Update N includes several performance improvements, like a kernel online installer which quickly installs a core set of
Java interfaces so first time Java users can access the application faster, instead of waiting for the full install.
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28.02.2008Firefox Update Leads to Java, Flash Glitches
If you, a customer, or someone you know uses Firefox, you or they probably had to stop at some point over the past week and install its 2.0.0.8
update. So you may want to know about this, from Percy Cabello at Mozillalinks.org:
Firefox users who updated to the latest Firefox 2.0.0.8
version released last week may find that the Java plugin doesnt work. Apparently one of the dozens of bugs fixes uncovered a Java plugin misbehavior
that prevents it from starting properly and crashing the browser. A bug has already been filed on Suns bug tracking system.
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24.10.2007After criticism, Sun changes Java updates
Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop.
Yesterday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance notification of its Java SE (Standard Edition) security updates and that it will
also scrap its controversial practice of staggering the release of Java patches. Instead, it will release updates for all supported Java SE platforms
simultaneously.
Sun Spokeswoman Jacki Decoster said the changes were designed to make it easier for enterprises to patch all of
their Java systems at once.
But Sun's new system also happens to remedy what some had called a serious security risk.
In July, eEye Digital Security Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret blasted Sun for waiting months between the release of some versions
of its desktop Java. In January, Maiffret's company had discovered a serious bug in the Java Network Launching Protocol, which is used to run Java
programs over the Web. But Sun made its fix for the problem available to developers several weeks before it pushed out the update to the Java
community at large...
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26.09.2007Sun lowers barriers to open-source Java
Sun Microsystems is making it
easier for open-source
programmers to ensure their
Java versions meet the
company's compatibility
requirements, but the deal
extends only to those involved
in Sun's own open-source Java
project.
Sun plans to announce on
Thursday a program that grants
access to its Java Technology
Compatibility Kit to anyone
with an open-source Java
project that is based
substantially on Sun's
open-source Java software and
governed by the General Public
License (GPL). Programmers
need access to the test kit to
prove that a project is in
compliance with the Java
specification.
Projects that pass
Sun's compatibility kit tests
also can use the official Java
logos for free, said Rich
Sands, OpenJDK community
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09.08.2007Java Surpasses C++ on
SourceForge
Last week, Java became
the dominant language on the
SourceForge site for the first
time, surpassing C++ in the
number of projects on the
repository of open-source
projects
site.
As
of last Thursday, Java
surpassed C++ with 16,738
projects versus 16,731 for
C++.
Officials at
Sun Microsystems Inc., the
creator and steward of the
Java platform, called the
achievement "a clear sign of
vibrant growth" and
participation in the Java
developer
community.
In an
interview with eWEEK, James
Gosling, a Sun fellow, vice
president, chief technology
officer of the company's
developer products group, and
"father" of the Java
language, said it is surely
significant "when C and C++
drop below Java usage in
SourceForge, which is actually
like the Galactic Home Central
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05.12.2005Red Hat to Build Optimized Java for Enterprise Linux
Nearly a year after Sun Microsystems first announced it would be releasing a build of Java to the open source community, Red Hat has apparently signed
on. In an announcement this morning, the company said it has licensed Sun's Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), with the objective to produce
an optimized Java for its Enterprise Linux that will drive JBoss applications...
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06.11.2007Sun Betas New Vista-Compatible
Java
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday
issued a beta release of Java
Platform Standard Edition 6,
the company's next-generation
development language targeted
at so-called Web 2.0
programmers. Perhaps most
enticing for those new to
Java, the update adds a
framework for supporting
popular scripting languages
such as PHP...
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15.02.2006Azul bullies Java with 768 core machine
http://www.azulsystems.com/>Az
ul Systems is rolling out a
new generation of
Java-crunching appliances
armed with the ability to
spread its workload across a
total of 768 processing cores
in a single box.
The
new 7240 and 7280 models eat
up 14U of rack space, and like
their predecessors, are aimed
at large businesses looking to
offload demanding Java
software workloads onto a
separate box. The devices
support Java and J2EE
applications, freeing up data
centers to work on other
tasks.
A fully-loaded
7240 contains 384 processor
cores, 385GB of memory and
will need 1,835 Watts to
operate. The 7280 has the
capacity for 768 processor
cores, 768GB memory and has a
healthy 3,235 Watt appetite...
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16.06.2007Microsoft to help Eclipse developers make Java apps look Vista-native
In a growing effort to show the world it is embracing the open source community, Microsoft announced it will work with the Eclipse Foundation to allow
Java developers to make software applications that look native to the Windows Vista operating system...
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21.03.2008On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards
Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or the ones they use ? It's been a tough call, and late
yesterday, the company reversed that call. Unlike IE7, IE8 will by default use "Standards mode."..
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04.03.2008IE8 JavaScript Benchmarks -- It's faster
One of the things immediately noticeable in the latest beta (beta 2) of Internet Explorer 8 was how much faster it is. I thought I'd see for myself
how much faster it
really is by running a JavaScript benchmark, since that is one thing that really has slowed down IE in comparison to its
competitors. Google has put
a benchmark it used while creating their
Chrome browser live on the web, but it also lets us see how IE8 stacks up against its
predecessor. So I ran it.
I ran the test on a 2.8GHz P4 running Windows Vista.
* IE7 benched in at 24, 23
and 29 for an average of 28.6
* IE8 received 37, 40 and 40 for an average of 39
As you can see, IE8 is about 36% faster than IE7 in JavaScript! While it's a good improvement, we can still see that work needs
to be done, and will surely increase with every beta release we see of IE8...
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04.09.2008Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse
Sun has opened up a test version of its
Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where
developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop.
Similar to Apple's successful App Store,
the site is designed to give consumers an easy way to download Java programs. A beta version of the store launched Tuesday with just a couple of
applications -- a Java version of the RuneScape online role-playing game and a Java-based Twitter client called Twitter FX -- but developers will have
until the Java Store's public launch at the end of this year to add programs to it.
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02.06.2009IE8, and why fixing that pesky 'tab issue' sealed the deal
In my most recent piece, "IE8, and why it's almost my default browser", I outline a couple of factors that inhibited IE8 from holding the
default browser position on my PC. Since writing that article, due in part to some helpful Neowin members and some quality time with IE8, I have since
awarded IE8 that coveted position on my PC and have promptly thrown Google Chrome to the curb. Perhaps the most taxing of my issues was what has been
colloquially referred to as the 'tab issue'. Many users have complained of severe delays when opening new tabs in Internet Explorer.
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03.04.2009ASP.NET AJAX makes its way to Linux via Java
A newly released update to Mainsoft's Java EE software product promises to let programmers use Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Web application framework on
Java-supported platforms outside of Microsoft Windows, including Linux and Mac OS X...
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10.04.2008Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
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