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Showing posts with label Windows software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows software. Show all posts
Friday, 20 July 2012
Windows 8 launch date revealed

  • 11:26

According to Microsoft's official Windows blog, the company's Steven Sinofsky just announced a firm ship date for Microsoft's upcoming operating system, Windows 8, at its annual sales meeting. Sinofsky announced that the OS will ship as both an upgrade and on new PCs starting 26 October.
This follows a recent announcement that Windows 8 would ship sometime in October. Currently, it's available as a Release Preview version. The firm ship date is a signal that the company has the product very near a final version. There is still, however, no firm ship date announced for its upcoming foray into hardware, the Surface.

Source : Wired
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Google goes private in new Firefox

  • 18:24

The latest update to Firefox brings better security to search and to the URL bar, as the browser gets OS X and HTML5 tweaks, too.
The biggest change to Firefox 14 (download for Windows | Mac | Linux,) is that it runs HTTPS for all Google searches. This means that prying eyes, especially over public networks, won't be able to intercept your queries. Though Firefox currently supports this only for Google, Mozilla said in a blog post announcing the update that it hopes to extend HTTPS to other search engines in the near future.
A small interface design change also affects your security. This tweak makes it easier to see the "verified secure" lock icon to the left of your location bar.
If you're using OS X 10.7 Lion, you'll now get native full-screen support. All versions of Firefox will autocomplete URLs, and they support more hardware APIs. These include Wake Lock, for preventing your screen saver from interrupting a game; Pointer Lock, for allowing better in-browser control over the mouse, which is useful for first-person shooter games; and Pseudo Class Lock, for developers who want to inspect the code powering a site.
Today's release of Firefox 14 will make sure no one can spy on your Google searches. Meanwhile, the location bar just got a tad easier to use.

source:CNET

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