Barmy Steve Ballmer, sometime monkey dancer and full time Microsoft top dog now that Bill Gates has gone, has surprised us all by informing the world that January 13th will not be Windows 7 day as predicted. The good news is that Windows 7 day will be on the 9th January instead. Yes, Ballmer has... (Read More)

We already know quite a lot about Windows 7: it has a distinct Office 2007 feel to the UI, it is likely to feature some kind of instant on fast booting process, and the OS itself should scale to some 256 processors. The launch of an official 'Engineering Windows 7' blog has helped with this... (Read More)

Microsoft announced that you can not remove Internet Explorer 8 without removing Service Pack 3. I think that is the biggest lie they have said in the last month. I removed IE 8 because it was causing major problems it wouldn't work. I was still on IE 8 Beta 1. First off I went to Control panel>... (Read More)

Look, I know it is fashionable to knock Internet Explorer. It is an easy target, and I will admit to aiming my own fair of kicks over the years. But when Beta software gets slated for having some bugs, well isn't that just taking things a little too far? That was my impression when I first saw... (Read More)

Most of the reports out yesterday about the release of Internet Explorer 8Beta 2 focused on its so-calledInPrivate Browsing, which leaves no trace of the Web sites you visit and protects anonymity. And while that's certainly useful, developers are likely to be more interested in its improvements in... (Read More)

Andy Zeigler is the Program Manager for Reliability and Privacy on the Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 team. Now there's a job and a half, it has to be said. Writing on the official IEBlog he says "For Internet Explorer, reliability means that the browser should always start quickly, perform well,... (Read More)

Microsoft has released the first public Beta version of Windows Server ‘Longhorn’ Beta 3 which can be downloaded from here. This is part of what Microsoft is referring to as the ‘Second Wave of Innovation’ to be delivered during the next 12 months. It started with Vista and Office 2007,... (Read More)

Photoshop CS3 beta is now in the Adobe Labs section of their website free for download. You can now download it! so quick get clickin, hey not so fast! unfortunately you can't see it if you don't have an adobe labs login and a valid version of CS2. Well that isn't strictly true because of... (Read More)

The impossible has been achieved; in as far as Google Earth has just got even better. The Beta 4 release seems pretty stable here, certainly no mishaps since I’ve been using it and using it I have been: a lot. Not only has the map rendering become much speedier than before, but additional little... (Read More)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html "Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community.... (Read More)