Tag: RELEASE

Corel has released the new version of Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. New to this release is the organizer, which has Picasa-like search and organizational features; the photo color changer (which is self-explanatory); the time machine, which will set your pictures back and make them look as if they were taken in another era; the depth of field effect, making the background fade to draw more attention to ...

Earlier this week Bill Gates said there was an 80 percent chance Windows Vista would ship in January 2007 as scheduled. At the time I said "I wouldn't make any bets with odds like that," and neither would Mac developer Wil Shipley--he wants to bet Bill $10,000 that Vista won't ship by next January, and he's giving the Microsoft chairman 3 to 1 odds (which, for the math-challenged, is better than ...

Certainty, it seems, isn't Microsoft's strong suit these days. Last we heard about Windows Vista's release date, Jim Allchin was saying it was right on track, but Steve Ballmer wasn't so sure. Now according to Bill Gates there's an "80 percent chance" that Vista will meet its targeted January launch date. That's what he said at a recent technology conference in Cape Town. Eighty percent isn't ...

After months of testing, the newest version of the Opera web browser has finally gotten its final release. Opera 9 is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The biggest new features in Opera 9 are content blocking, built-in BitTorrent support, widgets (yeah, widgets), per-site preferences, and thumbnail preview for tabs. You can see a feature overview here, or a more ...

The latest experimental release of the next version of Mozilla Firefox is now available for download. Firefox 2.0 (a.k.a. Bon Echo) Alpha 3 includes a new SQLite-based storage system for bookmarks and history, an improved search plugin system, enhances security and localization for extensions, and perhaps most notably, new anti-phishing features. The anti-phishing features are based on code from ...

I'm so confused. First I read this Reuters report from yesterday that says Microsoft "is 'confident' that [Windows Vista] will meet its targeted launch date." That's according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platform Products and Services Group. But then today there's a story at NeoWin that quotes CEO Steve Ballmer saying, "We think we are on track for shipping early in the year. We've ...

Mozilla has released a 2nd alpha version of Firefox 2.0. As usual, this release is not recommended for any kind of serious use, but if you're salivating at some of the new version's features, check out what has been incorporated in this 2nd development milestone: Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behavior is slightly ...

Another significant delay for Windows Vista would drop it firmly into the vaporware category right next to Duke Nukem Forever, but that's what analysts are saying is about to happen. Research firm Gartner Inc. says that Vista's release date will slip by at least three more months, making a consumer release fall in Q2 '07, between April and June. Microsoft disagrees, however, saying that it's still ...

Back in October we reported on graphics company Xara's plans to open the source code of their flagship product Xara Xtreme and bring it to Linux and Mac OS X. At the time no actual code had been released and only a "proof-of-concept" build was available. As of last week, however, the full source code is available under the GPL, paving the way for anyone to run the full-featured vector ...

While a maybe-it's-official alpha version of Firefox 2.0 showed up late last week, today we finally have a definitely-official version. Mozilla has put  up a download site for the official release of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1, codename "Bon Echo." On the list of changes are new tabbed browsing features, a new storage system for bookmarks and history, and improvements to the extension and ...

Just when it was starting to look like Windows Vista was actually going to make its late-'06 ship date, along comes news that the new OS won't be available to consumers until January 2007. Microsoft's Jim Allchin says Vista is being pushed back because due to development delays some PC makers were concerned they would not be able to ship this year while others would. However, volume licenses for ...

Monday saw the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.0. I really like Gentoo's version naming scheme. The new version boasts all the upgrades you'd expect, including KDE 3.4.3 and Gnome 2.12.2, and a 2.6.15 kernel. The new version can be installed from a LiveCD and OSDir.com has a nice bunch of screenshots of the install process. It looks pretty slick. ...

Friday saw the final release of version 3.0 of the open source Unix-like OS NetBSD. From the announcement: "NetBSD 3.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in stability, performance, networking, security, also includes support for two new platforms (iyonix and hp700), and many new peripherals." The changelog is extensive so I won't even try to summarize it here, but ...