According to vnunet.com, Firefox Web browser is gaining popularity, while other web browsers continued to wane.
The figures, published by web developers’ portal W3Schools, shows Firefox with 46.4 per cent, up nearly one percent from January, while various versions of IE, when taken together, dropped by 1.2 per cent to 43.6 per cent. Google’s Chrome browser rose slightly to four per cent.
However, as W3Schools explains, it is primarily a site for people with an interest in web technologies. These users are therefore “more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user” and so not fully representative of the general market.
As I noted Wednesday, Microsoft isn’t making huge changes to Windows 7 as a result of the beta feedback, but it is making a lot of little ones.
In a posting to its Engineering Windows 7 blog on Thursday, Microsoft outlined some of the changes that will be made for the next public version, which will be a near-final "release candidate" build.
Along with the ones mentioned in my previous article, Microsoft is making more than 30 other changes, including expanding its Aero Peek touch interface, adding broader support for older FAT32-formatted hard drives, and making it more apparent when a window in the background wants a user’s attention.
Microsoft’s business customers typically take 12 to 18 months of planning and testing before operating system deployments can begin. That includes testing applications, standardizing hardware, certifying operating system images, selecting deployment tools and methods, and training both end-users and IT for the new operating system. Before you blink, it can turn into a nightmare. But now more than ever it can cause problems, because in less than a year Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 will all be available and supported by Microsoft at the same time. The software giant is trying to tackle this problem by giving customers some suggestions.
The first post to the Windows for your Business Blog is a very lengthy one. The short version is that Microsoft is urging its business customers to ditch Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The long version is narrated to us by Gavriella Schuster, a member of the Windows Product Management team. Here’s a quick summary of Schuster’s points.
