October 23, 2006, 20:01
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 to be released tomorrow... IE7 wallow in the mire
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 will be released tomorrow. Do the Mozilla community a favor and download it tomorrow instead of today.
Free Software projects are often served up through one official server which then seeds the release out to local mirror servers. Obviously, if a big release is about to come out, it will be available before the actual launch so that local mirrors can pick up on the release.
It's no big secret so I'm not sure why big media outlets like Slashdot make it out to be. You'd think they'd know better.
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Internet Explorer 7 was recently released. Robert Scoble, a former Microsoft employee doesn't like it.
In my opinion, the only reason a new version of IE is out is because a new version of Windows is coming. So MS feels it can dedicate the resources into bringing out a new browser. Version 6 was released on August 27, 2001, a few weeks before Windows XP.
When will the next version of Windows come out?
