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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger goes Gold

According to sources, Apple declared build 8A428 of Tiger 'gold master,' the final development stage. Earlier, Apple release a "FC" (final candidate) build to developers and other partners.

XP64 goes Gold

Microsoft announced late Wednesday that it has sent four 64-bit versions of Windows into mass production. Windows XP Professional x64 as well as the server editions 2003 Standard x64, 2003 Enterprise x64 and 2003 Datacenter x64 are expected to be available in late April.

Internet Explorer unsafe

Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. This is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker.

Thunderbird security flaw (highly critical)

This vulnerability caused due to a boundary error in the GIF image processing of Netscape extension 2 blocks and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted image.

This vulnerability is leveled as highly critical!

Mozilla security flaw (highly critical)

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user system. 

These 2 vulnerabilities where leveled as highly critical!

The Next Big Thing in Online Type

Bill Gates wants computer users, well, Microsoft users, to have a more enjoyable on-screen reading experience -- so much so that he made improving reading on the screen one of his top five priorities.

New update for Thunderbird: v1.0.2

Thunderbird is a full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. This is the second update after the 1.0 release, v1.0.2.

Mozilla is changing plans

The Mozilla Foundation stops with developing new features for the seamonkey project. But Mozilla is still planning to give security patches and bugfixes. Mozilla is planning to get it’s focus on FireFox and Thunderbird. The 1.8 version of Mozilla Suite will probably not leave the beta stadium.

Lead program manager of IE talks about standards

This blog is from Chris Wilson, the lead program manager for the web platform in IE. He talks about compatibility and standards, therefore Chris focuses on different modes (quirks mode and strict mode) and talks about the CSS compatibility. It is possible that these types of blogs will be viewed by microsoft to get a better idea of what people wan't, maybe they will use these information for IE7

Bill Gates and “the future”

 An interview with Bill Gates, about the future of Microsoft. In this interview Bill speaks about strategies, ongoing efforts in security and how to get PCs into more hands across the globe. History shows that when it comes to new markets, Microsoft keeps trying until it gets it right--or it gets out. In this case, Gates is willing to bide his time.