Daily Update: Firefox 4 is Available, Twitter Turns 5, More

Good morning. I'm in (well, near) Toulouse, France this week.

Mozilla has apparently release the final version of Firefox 4 a day "early" (the launch is tomorrow, but this thing's been delayed about a million times.) Here's the link for the Windows version.

There was a time period where Microsoft was settling local antitrust suits left and right. It's been awhile, but they've just settled on in Minnesota. We won't know the details until July, however.

Rob Enderle has written an interesting read about Microsoft’s six biggest blunders. I don't agree with all them, in fact I hadn't heard of one of them (#1). And you can't blame Brian Valentine for Vista; there is plenty of blame to spread there. But he has a nice list of consumer missteps there, something I've been discussing lately.

The Motley Fool has an even more interesting article about why Microsoft's stock price could double. And it's not what you think.

Not getting enough Windows 8 news? How about some post-Windows 8 news

Microsoft's Eee Slate ads hope to lure away iPad 2 buyers. Which is cute because all customers have to do is see an Eee Slate to want an iPad 2.

Twitter turned 5 today.

Discuss this Article 3

deepfry
on Mar 21, 2011
That link for the firefox download is apparently still the RC....I installed it on a machine that had never had firefox installed on it before and it is claiming that it is the RC version...just fyi.
LemonSaucy
on Mar 22, 2011
Why bother? I use IE 9, that's it .. except .. I have web work to do which means when I make up some virtual machines I will install myriad browsers, including Opera and FireFox. Yuck.

I don't see the point of either of them. Most every site works with IE. It is fast and on Windows 7 operates in Protected Mode which isolates the browser from the rest of the system. FF and Opera don't use Protected mode - they aren't sandboxed. That is a very dangerous situation. Should FF get compromised the system is compromised.

Mustang17
on Mar 24, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8404030/Apple-iPad-2-First-p...

iSad

Waiting all night in a street with an iphone and ipad, and he tells a national newspaper, another good move!

iMugged





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