uTest, the virtualized QA department that I’d written about previously, recently performed a Bug Battle with over 1,300 testers.  The results were interesting: Internet Explorer 8 came out with the fewest bugs, 168 were discovered by their testers.  FireFox came in second with 207 bugs, and Google’s Chrome was in last place with 297 [...]

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As was widely reported today, Google announced that they are taking chrome out of Beta after just 100 days.  Chief amongst their stats about the Beta program: in the 100 day duration, they saw over 10 million (yes, that means 10,000,000) active users.  Whether that means they’re only counting the number of times Chrome [...]

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Microsoft jumped into the OpenSource blogging platform world today… Well, kind of.  They announced the release of Oxite, an ASP.NET-based OpenSource platform for blogging.
The site for Oxite admits that this isn’t meant to be much more than a very large example of what can be done with ASP.NET.  And it’s actually a probably a [...]

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The next release of Microsoft Office, codenamed “Office 14”, is to include a completely web-based version of the popular tools in the Office suite, including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
A technical preview of these web-based tools was expected to be out and accessible to the general public by now, but apparently those plans have [...]

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I tried Windows Vista for a while, and ultimately found nothing really wrong with it.  The only problems I really had with it was that it hadn’t been on the market long enough for anyone to write any real tweaking tools for it yet, and the hardware I was running it on didn’t have [...]

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