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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Notícias sobre tecnologia, como novo software.
OpenOffice é morto
Os caras da Oracle divulgou um comunicado na semana passada sobre a sua suíte de escritório livre e de código aberto, OpenOffice. Adivinha o quê? Eles estão tornando-se um “comunidade do projeto”; I.e.. eles estão deixando de morrer.
A parte triste é que OpenOffice foi muito popular: muitos usuários de Mac usado (desde o Office para Mac custa uma tonelada) e muitos usuários do Windows usado como bem (a maioria das pessoas não vai usar todos os recursos do Microsoft Office, que os custos, o que, $100?) Mas não desanime, it’s not as bad as you might think. Read on to see.
Firefox’s new release strategy
Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – que é, 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 está fora
Foi cerca de um ano em que vem (ele estava em beta por um ano inteiro), mas o Firefox 4 está definitivamente fora e pode ser baixado em firefox.com. Versão mais recente do navegador de código aberto é um passo gigantesco para a frente do 3.6 versão (a antiga versão estável de um ano atrás, que é lamentavelmente ultrapassada por agora.)
O que mudou
- Firefox 4 é de cerca de 3 vezes mais rápido no carregamento da página e desempenho JavaScript que 3.6. Isto significa que seus aplicativos web favoritos e sites são – prepare-se para este – 3 vezes mais rapidamente do que antes.
Microsoft helps kill spammers
Bem, 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.
Internet Explorer 9 está fora
Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer 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: