Archive for October, 2007

Internet Explorer 7 now WGA-free (finally…)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Microsoft has issued an updated Internet Explorer (IE) 7 release that no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation in order to download. The company has refreshed versions of IE 7 for Windows XP Service Pack (SP)2, Windows 64 client/server, and Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2. It also posted an update to IE 7 for Windows XP that resolves a phishing-filter problem with the browser.

(Snippet from ZDNet)

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Too many Adobe announcements…

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

…the last few days, with more yet to come as MAX starts winding down in Chicago today.  Most of you interested in such things already know plenty of other places to go for up-to-the-second news anyway…

Flex Builder Alpha for Linux

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

An alpha build of Flex Builder for Linux has been released by Adobe. Note that some features are still missing, it being an early alpha and all…

Get it here.

Microsoft announces new Zunes

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Microsoft announced their new, updated Zune Zune graphic (from Microsoft)portable media players today, with plans to ship sometime in November. They appear to be a little more iPod-y now than they were in their first iteration, but still look like Zunes. They showed a $149, 4 gig version and a $199, 8 gig model, both of which use flash memory, and an $249, 80 gig version that uses a hard drive. All will be available in a few different colors (the 80GB initially only in black).

There have been some fairly positive changes with the hardware and controls (the new flick-control pad looks pretty cool), as well as with the underlying firmware and desktop software. There are also still a few things missing… Microsoft is also supporting DRM-free music now, to an extent.

More info about the new Zunes should be or here or here or here or here or, well, everywhere.

(Image from Microsoft)

Adobe announces Thermo

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Thermo image (from Adobe) It appears quite similar, at a glance, to what Microsoft is already doing with XAML/Expression/Silverlight/etc, allowing you to develop widgets graphically and turn them into components you can wire up and code against.

Note: it’s merely been announced at this point, not released in demo/trial form (so far)…

More info here.

(Image from Adobe)

Adobe AIR beta 2 is out

Monday, October 1st, 2007

More about it here.