Anyone who knows me hears my frequent criticisms of Microsoft Outlook. (Or at least the thunder from my fist pounding my desk.) Trust me, I got the proof and experience and can reproduce every single Outlook frustration on demand. That said, I have been on the crusade in the past year or two to properly use Outlook [...]
In the open-source world, one of the champions, OpenOffice, has been updated to 3.0. OpenOffice has been improved to be more user-friendly and now runs natively runs on the Mac, which means it’s faster.
Adobe®, the company that we all love to loathe, had two epic failures in public relations this weekend involving the online community. First, someone detailed their terrible experience with Adobe Reader® 9 and second, Adobe® litigated an open-source community to death for the use of the word, “air,” in their domain name. Is it me, [...]
For the third Firefox release, Mozilla Corporation, will try to get a page in the 2008 World Records for the most software installed software in 24 hours. Right now, the date isn’t disclosed, but avid Firefox users can pledge to participate and get a reminder e-mail to download Firefox.
More information can be found at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
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