Tag Archives : Software release life cycle

Firefox 4, why is taking so long to be released?

Firefox 4, why is taking so long to be released?

The release of Firefox 4 it must be postponed again. In last Tuesday, Christian‘s Legnitto, manager of Mozilla’s software – the foundation responsible for developing the browser – announced that two more are planned betas before the final version is released. According Legnitto’s in his personal blog, the latest beta, [...]
Chrome will be updated every 6 weeks

Chrome will be updated every 6 weeks

Google announced on Thursday that will accelerate the release of Chrome upgrades, launching a version every six weeks or so. According to Anthony Laforge, program manager for Chrome, the new schedule will deliver a new “stable” version of the browser into the hands of users at a rate almost twice that in the past. The pace will begin to [...]
IE9 is coming

IE9 is coming

Microsoft released for download a test platform of its new browser. The new key features include better use of graphics processor and support for HTML5. Software Internet Explorer Platform Preview includes several demonstrations of how the IE9 CSS3 and will work with various features in HTML5 as the new generation of web standards and optimized use [...]
Pre-alpha version of Fennec (Firefox) for Android is released

Pre-alpha version of Fennec (Firefox) for Android is released

For developers and alpha-testers, Mozilla officially released pre-alpha version of Fennec, Firefox to Android. Vladimir Vukicevic from Mozilla, notes that the release may still contain many bugs, and is actually a little earlier than that could be considered a pre-alpha version, but the software is good enough for the company to make it available to [...]
Moblin 2.1 is ready!

Moblin 2.1 is ready!

The development team of the Moblin project, a Linux distribution optimized for netbooks originally created by Intel and now under the control of the Linux Foundation, announced Wednesday the launch of the first beta version of Moblin 2.1. Despite the small difference in the numbering, this version brings important changes in the question that matters [...]
Ubuntu counterattacks Windows 7

Ubuntu counterattacks Windows 7

It was not just Microsoft that has released new operating system on Thursday (22). Canonical would not settle for less and took the time to also make the Release Candidate version 9.10 of Ubuntu, seen as the most popular and user-friendly Linux distribution too. The next version codenamed Karmic Koala is now promoted from Beta to RC and the timetable [...]
Firefox 3.6 is coming

Firefox 3.6 is coming

Called by the nickname “Namoroka”, Firefox 3.6 is a minor update to Firefox 3.5 launched in late June and will be finalized in November this year. It will serve as an intermediary for Firefox 3.7, scheduled for 2010, according to Mozilla. According to the organization, the first alpha of Firefox 3.6 includes improvements in speed for the [...]