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.
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Noticias sobre tecnología, como un nuevo software.
OpenOffice está muerta
Los chicos de Oracle poner una declaración en algún momento la semana pasada acerca de su suite ofimática libre y de código abierto, OpenOffice. Adivina qué? Están haciendo un “proyecto comunitario”; es decir. que están dejando morir.
La parte triste es que OpenOffice era muy popular: muchos usuarios de Mac lo usaron (ya que Office para Mac cuesta una tonelada) y un montón de usuarios de Windows lo utilizó como bien (la mayoría de la gente no va a utilizar todas las características de Microsoft Office, que los costos, qué, $100?) Pero no se desanime, que no es tan malo como se podría pensar. Siga leyendo para ver.
Nueva estrategia de lanzamiento de Firefox
Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – es decir, 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.
Firefox 4 is out
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version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)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
Bien, not really kill, just bring down. Pero tiene el título suena bien.
En otras noticias, Microsoft por fin ha hecho algo bien mediante un descenso de Rustock, una red de bots que infectó millones de ordenadores y los llevó a enviar grandes cantidades de correo no deseado. Rustock fue uno de los (si no el) mayores redes de spam en el mundo.
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.
Internet Explorer 9 is out
Bien hecho, Proyecto de ley, por fin has hecho algo bien. Internet Explorer 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Aquí está el truco: 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: