If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 and PSP devices, has been down since last Wednesday. Their on-demand streaming service, Qriocity, is also down. 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.
類別: 科技新聞
科技新聞, 如新軟件.
OpenOffice是死了
在甲骨文的傢伙 了一份聲明， 上週的某個時候對他們的 免費和開源的辦公套件, OpenOffice的. 你猜怎麼著? 他們正在做一個 “社區項目”; 即. 他們離開它死.
不幸的是， OpenOffice的很受歡迎: 許多Mac用戶使用 (由於Office的Mac成本一噸) 大量的Windows用戶使用它作為 (大多數人都不會使用的Microsoft Office的所有功能，, 哪些費用, 什麼, $100?) 不過不要灰心，, 這不是那麼糟糕，因為你可能會認為. 請仔細閱讀，看.
Firefox的新版本策略
Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – 亦即, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.
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.
火狐 4 是出
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version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)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
- 火狐 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
良好, 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.
微軟 (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.
Internet Explorer的 9 是出
Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer的 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: