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Guiness World Record Certificate in your name - Firefox 3
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| The record is 15,067,570 downloads (15 Million). Country wise, USA tops the
| list with a whooping 4 million + downloads. Surprisingly, sans the US,
| relatively small countries like Iran and France clocked more downloads than
| its larger counterparts like India and China.
|
| If you are one of the people who downloaded Firefox on June 17th, then
| congratulations !!; You are a part of the Guiness Book of World Records. And
| the people at Firefox are ever too grateful to forget your valuable
| contribution.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2008/06/guiness-world-record-certificate-in.html
Firefox Wins the Battle, But the Browser War Still Wages
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| The “record-setting” debut of Firefox 3 on Tuesday is generating serious buzz
| on the Web.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/20/firefox-wins-the-battle-but-the-browser-war-still-wages/
Photos: New features in Firefox 3
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| Firefox 3 offers faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources
| and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. Most
| notable is the fact that Firefox 3 includes many built-in security-related
| features, such as the best-of-breed antiphishing protection, making Firefox
| the most secure browser on the market today. If you haven't already tried
| Firefox, what are you waiting for? Firefox 3 remains our Editors' Choice over
| Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Opera.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Photos-New-features-in-Firefox-3/0,139023769,339290001,00.htm
The world's best Web browser is open source, with Free software derivatives
also.
The world's best search engine runs Linux and most of the Web runs Apache.
Recent:
[Parody:] Microsoft Abandons Internet Explorer 8 Development for Firefox 3
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| As the Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 3 and tries to set a record for
| most downloads in a day, they will be receiving help from an unlikely source:
| Microsoft.
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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/microsoft-abandons-internet-explorer-8.html
Ten years of Mozilla
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| Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of
| its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source
| product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web
| browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment
| according to Netscape’s own accounts. But Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was
| grabbing share at a furious pace thanks to it being free (at a time Netscape
| was about$30) and specially the fact that it came bundled with Windows 95 and
| upcoming Windows 98 (released on June 1998).
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/ten-years-of-mozilla/
Related:
Gates deposition videos
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| Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were
| bundling non-Microsoft browsers?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure.
|
| Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: What's the question? You're trying to get me to recall
| what other browsers I was thinking about when I wrote that sentence?
|
| Boies: No, because you've told me that you don't know what you
| were thinking about when you wrote that sentence.
|
| Gates: Right.
|
| Boies: What I'm trying to do is get you to tell me what
| non-Microsoft browsers you were concerned about in January of
| 1996. If it had been only one, I probably would have used the
| name of it. Instead I seem to be using the term non-Microsoft
| browsers. My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I'm sure -- what's the question? Is it -- are you asking
| me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about?
|
| Boies: I'm asking you about January of 1996.
|
| Gates: That month?
|
| Boies: Yes, sir.
|
| Gates: And what about it?
|
| Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in
| January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I don't know what you mean "concerned."
|
| Boies: What is it about the word "concerned" that you don't
| understand?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure what you mean by it.
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http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/02/gates_depositio.php
Gates Deposition Audio and Video
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| Here is our local copy of the depositions of Bill Gates in the
| Microsoft anti-trust suit. We did our best to convert the
| original Windows Media files into an Open format, ogg. Your
| webmaster is responsible for the video transcoding, the
| audio-only files are contributed by a Groklaw member that
| requested to stay anonymous.
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http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
Microsoft's Marketing Scheme: Software Credits for Enterprise Commitment
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| Hmmm. Wasn't there a similar program designed to get companies to
| use Internet Explorer when Netscape was gaining market share? Next
| thing you'll know, we'll hear assertions that Microsoft Live Search
| is built into Windows and despite the efforts of thousands of
| Microsoft programmers, can't be removed.
|
| Our take: We have to agree with Batelle's assertion that this could
| work in organizations that are already all Microsoft; it's straight
| out of the same playbook Microsoft uses with hardware OEMs. All we
| can say is that if Microsoft spent nearly as much attention and money
| on marketing programs to develop customer value as it did on killing
| competing companies, it would be making a lot more money.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070319/29863_id.html?.v=1
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| "3. INTERNET EXPLORER: Unless specifically requested to the contrary
| by the end user of the Customer System and provided proper
| translation is available, COMPANY will ship MS Internet Explorer
| 2.0, and the most current subsequent higher version Product
| Releases and Version Releases thereof, preinstalled on all
| new Customer Systems..."
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02346.pdf
The Netscape Story: From Mosaic to Mozilla
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| The steady rise of Firefox's market share – first, a few percent, then 10%,
| and now touching 40% in some parts of the world – had a major knock-on
| effect. Through an agreement with Google that makes the latter's search
| engine the default home page when the program is installed, and the first
| option for the search engine box in Firefox, the parent organisation, Mozilla
| Foundation, is receiving tens of millions of dollars each year in fees. As a
| result, Mozilla has turned from a struggling project into an incredibly
| powerful force within open source.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=310&blogid=14
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