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Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux

When the rapid release schedule was first announced for Firefox last year, I was not a... Read more

22 May, 2012

Mozilla defends swift Firefox releases

Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker has acknowledged that Firefox's new rapid-release schedule may cause problems for some businesses, but has insisted the approach... Read more

26 August, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

...well-respected core distribution, but it has a relatively slow and irregular release schedule. Shuttleworth wanted to produce a stable release of an easy-to... Read more

10 February, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
BlackBerry Curve 9380 and Bold 9790 arrive

BlackBerry Curve 9380 and Bold 9790 arrive

...the company is yet to show off the new platform and no release schedule has been made public. It has said that by using the... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Ben Woods
Report: Windows 8 set for October launch

Report: Windows 8 set for October launch

...expecting. Bloomberg notes that Microsoft will lay out the details of the release schedule at an industry event in early April. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined... Read more

20 March, 2012 by Jay Greene

Anonymous hacker fails to act on Norton code threat

...NAV. Sophos security technology consultant Graham Cluley said that the hacker's release schedule appeared to have been delayed. "It seems hackers' release schedules are... Read more

8 February, 2012

Firefox 8 release adds native Twitter search

...have become frustrated, saying they are unable keep up with the rapid release schedule. Mozilla also intends to mirror is the silent update process feature... Read more

7 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft: Browser standards drive innovation

...not currently trying to compete with the Firefox or Chrome's rapid-release schedule. "We don't share Google's model at the moment of... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Ben Woods

Windows 8 Server preview arrives for developers

...for businesses of all sizes". While Microsoft has not laid out a release schedule, the general manager of Windows 8 Server, Mike Neil, discussed the... Read more

14 September, 2011 by Simon Bisson

Firefox 6 limbers up for full release

...of the Firefox 7 beta as Mozilla continues on its accelerated rolling release schedule. Some enterprise users of Firefox have complained that the fast-paced... Read more

15 August, 2011

Mozilla changes tune on Firefox enterprise support

...In June, Asa Dotzler responded to complaints about the newly-accelerate Firefox release schedule by saying the enterprise, where IT managers need more time to... Read more

20 July, 2011

Linux Mint Debian Introduces "Update Packs"

...that they are continuously updated rather than being on a periodic "major release" schedule. Both have been through rough patches of one kind or another... Read more

6 July, 2011

Firefox 5 and the relentless march of progress

...heels of the competing Google Chrome browser. This makes Ubuntu Linux's release schedule look positively lazy. ZDNet UK's very own Ben Woods highlighted... Read more

28 June, 2011

Mozilla: Enterprise has never been a focus of ours

...response to criticism from IT managers who said the newly accelerated Firefox release schedule was causing problems for businesses trying to keep up with the... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Open Source ... and ... Closed Minds?

...t increment their major release numbers often enough. So they revised their release schedule, including incrementing the major number a lot more often (in places... Read more

24 June, 2011

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