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1. Opera for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components

   3.0.50727.358 CTP (Feb 24, 2006)

   Adrian,
   
   WinFX is Microsoft's new API. It will eventually replace win32. But for the XP and Vista timeframe, it will run on and alongside win32.
   
   For Vista, MS wants new programs to target WinFX. Going ahead, most of the enhancements will be to WinFX and not win32.

2. 
   Review - Winamp 5 Full

   5.2 (Feb 21, 2006)

   Quite nice. Very extensible and customizable.
   
   Bloated? Foobar? Time to upgrade your 386, Poindexter.

3. 
   Review - Google Pack

   Beta (Jan 7, 2006)

   I retract my original snarky post.
   
   Despite what I may think about some of the non-Google included software, the updater is quite slick, and I can see how this could be extended. It will make maintenance a lot easier for many users.

4. 
   Review - Paint.NET

   2.5 Release Candidate 1 (Nov 14, 2005)

   Different versions of the .NET framework are designed to be installed and run concurrently. Not working on .NET 2.0 should be a nonissue unless you do something foolish like uninstall .NET 1.1.
   
   ModderXManiac: Let me help you feel at home with open source. The source is available, the programmers have conveniently separated out all the Windows platform specific calls so that it can be ported to Mono. Fix it yourself.

5. 
   Review - ReactOS

   0.2.8 (Oct 31, 2005)

   Anyone know if there's a VMWare player for this?

6. Comment - Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client

   0.2.8 (Mar 11, 2006 - 7:40 PM)

   Both Microsoft and Google refer to their AJAX interfaces, codename "Kahuna" and Gmail, respectively, as clients. Golly, these new-fangled web-apps are so cutting-edge.
   
   I'll opt for the "confusion" of computer engineers to the semi-literate ramblings of Betanews goofballs.

7. Comment - Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client

   0.2.8 (Mar 11, 2006 - 7:03 PM)

   Part of the interface and functionality is processed locally with Javascript. However, this isn't a requirement to be regarded a "client."
   
   In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. The term was first applied to devices that were not capable of running their own stand-alone programs, but could interact with remote computers via a network. These dumb terminals were clients of the time-sharing mainframe computer.
   
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_(computing)

8. Comment - Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client

   0.2.8 (Mar 10, 2006 - 5:42 PM)

   Gmail is a client. That it lacks local storage does nothing to negate this.

9. Comment - Microsoft: No Vista on Intel Macs

   0.2.8 (Mar 10, 2006 - 5:15 PM)

   It'll happen sooner rather than later by VMWare or all those hackers gunning for that $12k prize.

10. Comment - Writely Buy Hints at Google Office

    0.2.8 (Mar 9, 2006 - 8:23 PM)

    Isn't Writely in the "Internet world"? There's no client software to install. It's all in the browser.