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It’s oficial. Firefox 2 only had 1.6 million downloads on the first day of launch, which only took Firefox 3 five hours.

The Mozilla team had hoped for five million downloads for Firefox 3 in its first 24 hours of release. Approximately 13 hours after its release, Firefox 3 passed the 5million download mark. They are almost confirmed to set a Guinness World Record. Their SpreadFireFox site shows 9,459,616 total downloads as of now. Are you one [...]

I installed Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 (V. 3.0b4) last week. Again, the improvement
focused on security and UI. I couldn’t “feel” improvement on performance though.
I decided to uninstall it yesterday and found some problems after removing it.
I’d like to share my experience with you so you can save some time figuring out
the problems if you happen [...]

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has confirmed that they are developing software that will support Sony’s Blu-ray high definition movie format to the Windows operating system (OS). He avoided questions about Xbox 360’s Blu-ray support. Microsoft Xbox 360 is the major competitor of Sony Playstation 3.
“We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver [...]

According to FT, MS is talking to Sony about this cooperation.

BestBuy sells Xbox 360 HD DVD Player with 6 HD-DVDs for only $49.99. Let’s watch the prices keep going down.

Blu-Ray Wins!

Warner Bros, and then Amazon and Universal… Sigh!