Якщо ви дивилися новини останнім часом, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 і пристрої PSP, has been down since last Wednesday. Їх на вимогу потоковий сервіс, Qriocity, Також вниз. There’s been a huge buzz about it for the last week, but it’s hard to cut through the buzz to get the actual information. I’ve done a little digging, so here are some of the basics.
Category: Tech News
Новини по технології, як нове програмне забезпечення.
OpenOffice мертвий
The guys at Oracle put out a statement sometime last week about their free and open-source office suite, OpenOffice. Знаєте, що? Вони роблять це “проект спільноти”; i.e. вони залишивши його помирати.
The sad part is that OpenOffice was very popular: багато користувачів Mac використовував його (з Управління з Mac коштує тонна) and plenty of Windows users used it as well (most people aren’t going to use all the features of Microsoft Office, which costs, what, $100?) But don’t be discouraged, it’s not as bad as you might think. Read on to see.
Нова стратегія реліз Firefox,
Назад в день (і під цим я розумію тиждень тому), нові версії Firefox були звільнені “коли вони були готові” – тобто, коли всі функції, які вони хотіли поставити в були в ньому. That’s called feature-based releases, і більшість розробників використовувати цю стратегію.
But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.
Firefox 4 поза
It’s been about a year in coming (it was in beta for a full year), but Firefox 4 is finally out and can be downloaded at firefox.com. The open-source web browser’s latest version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)
What’s changed
- Firefox 4 is about 3 times faster in page loading and JavaScript performance than 3.6. This means your favorite web apps and websites are – get ready for this – 3 times faster than before.
Microsoft helps kill spammers
Добре, not really kill, just bring down. But it makes the title sound nice.
In other news, Microsoft has finally done something right by bringing down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers and caused them to send massive amounts of spam. Rustock was one of the (if not the) biggest spam networks in the world.
Microsoft (and some feds) raided some hosting facilities in the US and took down the servers that instructed infected computers to send spam.
You can read more at cnet.
Інтернет експлорер 9 поза
Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Інтернет експлорер 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Here’s the catch: it only works on Windows Vista and 7.
Let me repeat that:
It only works in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work in XP.
Thoughts on the new browser
For one thing, it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer 8, although that isn’t saying much. To be honest, it’s actually decent; Internet Explorer can now compete with the other popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome.
Here’s what really matters: