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Annoying software: a rogues' gallery Camera icon

Annoying software: a rogues' gallery

Photo Which software is guilty of annoying us the most? Here's an identity parade of the chief suspects. [20 May 2008]

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Firefox 3 is released for download

News Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser is now officially available for download, as the organisation seeks the world record for the number of software downloads in a day [17 Jun 2008]

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Firefox 3 reaches six percent market share

News The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million downloads in 24 hours, achieving a final tally of 8,290,545 and reaching a market share that peaked at over six percent [19 Jun 2008]

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Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem

Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem

Comment Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed [30 May 2008]

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OOXML ratification faces delay after objection

News South Africa's national standards body becomes the first to formally protest the ISO ratification of Microsoft's OOXML document format — a move that should delay the process [27 May 2008]

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Disable Firefox 3's 'awesome bar' Video icon

Disable Firefox 3's 'awesome bar'

Video If you're one of those users clamouring for an option to silence so-called 'awesome bar' in Firefox 3, released on Tuesday, look no further [18 Jun 2008]

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Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw

News The Zero Day Initiative has reported that a vulnerability it deems critical was found five hours after the release of the new browser [19 Jun 2008]

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Becta takes Microsoft complaint to EC

News The Commission has folded complaints over Microsoft interoperability from the IT education body into a wider investigation [13 May 2008]

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UK Unix users seek funding to pursue OOXML fight

News The UK Unix and Open Systems User Group has lost its legal challenge against the BSI regarding the OOXML format, but will appeal the decision [19 Jun 2008]

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Firefox 3

Firefox 3

Review If only for its speed, lightness of being and security, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for the best internet browser. [18 Jun 2008]

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Office for Mac sales soar on Apple gains

News While Apple's market share gains are cause for consternation for many in Redmond, one Microsoft unit is clearly benefiting [13 May 2008]

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Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving

News The UK's National Archives welcomes the backing of PDF/A as a core standard for archiving documents, but warns it is only 'a tool in the armoury of a well-thought-out records-management policy' [24 Apr 2008]

OpenOffice 3 enters beta stage

News Sun has released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, adding features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard [08 May 2008]

Microsoft opens up Live Mesh

News The service, which lets people share data among multiple Windows computers as well as over the web, is now open to anyone who has a Windows Live ID [17 Jul 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 to support ODF, PDF

News The company has announced plans to build support for the rival formats into Office 2007 as part of Service Pack 2 for the software [22 May 2008]

Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification

News Joining South Africa and Brazil, the two countries have lodged formal complaints about Microsoft's Office Open XML being ratified as a standard by ISO/IEC [02 Jun 2008]

Zimbra Desktop gives Yahoo Mail offline access

News Yahoo, an early leader in web-based email, is trying to leapfrog Google with its Zimbra Desktop software, which offers online documents and offline access [25 Jul 2008]

Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

News The Portable Document Format became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning [04 Jul 2008]

Inside Firefox 3 Camera icon

Inside Firefox 3

Photo Take a tour of the basic features in Mozilla's new Firefox 3 web browser. [18 Jun 2008]


Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record

News Mozilla's browser has entered the book of Guinness World Records for the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period [03 Jul 2008]

Google Docs gets limited PDF support

News People using the search giant's online office suite can now upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardised Portable Document Format [18 Jun 2008]

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Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?

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Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a...

Over at ZDNet.com, Ed Bott reports a first sighting of Microsoft's eagerly awaited $300 million ad campaign. Already the cause of much speculation, the consensus is that this will be... More

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A $40 CONSUMER-class router has create...

Believe it or not I don't work in IT, haven't for 7 years. Yes I work with Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded and as a result I have to know a lot about the OS, the kernal, Win API calls... More

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Sick Puppy Redo

I generally follow a dispassionate investigative process when trying to discern what happened when a project goes bad. Although its a low priority item, it gets done simply because... More

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