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The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Firefox gains more ground on Internet Explorer, and who's that coming up on the outside? But now it seems that workers at one council will shortly face the prospect of life without status updates, comments on baby... [04 Sep 2009]
Google gives Chrome a shine with the launch of 29 themes
News Mozilla, on the other hand, has its own skinning technology in the works for Firefox, a plug-in called Personas that launched on Mozilla Labs in March. Mozilla Labs announced Monday that Firefox now has... [05 Aug 2009]
Microsoft dishes out code for inclusion in Linux
News Microsoft has said that the browser-based versions of Office, which are due out next year as part of Office 2010, will support Firefox, bringing at least a portion of Office to Linux for the first time. [21 Jul 2009]
Silverlight 3 gets Mac friendly
News Twenty per cent of users that wanted to stream Netflix movies couldn't because we weren't on the Macintosh and we weren't on Firefox," McEntee said. As well as announcing the arrival of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft... [19 Mar 2009]
Cloudy outlook sees Microsoft take Exchange, SharePoint online
News Top 10 alternatives to Internet Explorer from Firefox to Chrome. Microsoft has unveiled its latest assault on the cloud computing market with the launch of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). [02 Mar 2009]
Linux open source Silverlight is live
News We are feature-complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression test suites and we shipped support for Microsoft's Media Pack for x86 and x86-64 architectures," de Icaza wrote on Wednesday, adding that Moonlight 1.0 was available as a... [13 Feb 2009]
What if Microsoft-Yahoo! had tied the knot?
News s widespread use of open source software and fondness for the Firefox browser would raise hackles all over Microsoft. A year ago, on 1 February 2008, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told the world his company... [02 Feb 2009]
Microsoft gives Firefox an add-on to search with
News Microsoft has released an add-on that makes Microsoft's search service work better with Firefox. Live Search programme manager Beatrice Oltean and senior product manager Debapriya Ray wrote in a blog post Thursday:... [30 Jan 2009]
Microsoft IE dominance tough to topple in business
News Alternative browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome may be aimed at toppling Microsoft's reign but analysts say Internet Explorer's (IE) "overwhelming dominance" in the workplace will be difficult to defeat. [27 Nov 2008]
From Firefox to Chrome: Why I made the switch
Comment Mozilla suggested I try a fresh installation of Firefox, one that's not burdened by those pesky extensions. I hadn't been running a large quantity but I started with a fresh reinstallation of Firefox 3.1... [25 Nov 2008]
Smartphones prepare to conquer the web
News Other companies such as Firefox, Skyfire and Opera have also been improving mobile browsers to give wireless users a more robust surfing experience. Mobile web usage is on the rise as more fully featured browsers come to... [14 Nov 2008]
Photos: Top 10 alternatives to Internet Explorer
Photo The open source browser, first introduced in 2004, now has around 20 per cent of the browser market and its maker, Mozilla, has recently released both a new desktop and mobile browser - Firefox 3.0 and... [23 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Hasta la Vista, cloud debate, Apple future gazing
Comment Firefox crashes intermittently, as does IE7, Opera and even Safari! The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. This week open source guru... [10 Oct 2008]
Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News The next version of Firefox is likely to add a private surfing mode to Mozilla's popular browser. The Firefox community, notably developer Ehsan Akhgari, has been working on the feature since last year,... [16 Sep 2008]
Microsoft's cloud Office lands one million users
News Microsoft has added 11 new languages - including Japanese and traditional Chinese - to Workspace along with 20 new features such as multi-file upload, activity panels and improved support for Firefox. [04 Sep 2008]
