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  1. Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

    3.2.0 (Feb 9, 2010)

    Fantastic startup. Now comparable to Office 2010 Beta! I'd say 1.5 seconds to load any OO app now, uncached, and .25 seconds cached.

    I really don't like what Microsoft has done with Outlook 2010. The tabs at the top needlessly putfunctions I frequently need on different "pages" so it's actually slowed me down quite a bit.
    There's little reason for me, personally and professionally, to stay with Expen$ive Microsoft Offi$e.

  2. Review - UltraMon

    3.0.8 Beta (Dec 23, 2009)

    Still beta. Man up and release this thing. Grow a pair.

  3. Review - Mozilla Firefox (v3.6) for Windows

    3.6 Beta 5 (Dec 18, 2009)

    Yeah this version is working great.

    FF-->Chrome-->FF. I go back and forth. Two great browsers.

  4. Review - K-Lite Codec Pack Full

    5.5.1 (Dec 14, 2009)

    -1 crashing in MPCHC when fast- user switching in Windows Vista/7. I use this feature quite a bit.
    also -makeunattended isn't working on Windows 7

  5. Review - 7-Zip (64-bit)

    9.09 Beta (Dec 14, 2009)

    Great Program.

  6. Comment - Hey, Microsoft, Betanews readers have some 2010 advice for you

    9.09 Beta (Dec 23, 2009 - 1:34 PM)

    I'd be really happy if they put serious time and effort into making IE standards compliant and dedicated teams to making it so, as well as had a dedicated release schedule. Say make .0 releases cutting edge, .1 releases bugfixes, and .5 releases to bring up to date after a year. Repeat every two years. But don't half-ass IE9 like IE7 and IE8 were.

    It's shameful that Microsoft holds back the web so much.

  7. Comment - Google's 'Open' definition: Simply brilliant business, but is it evil?

    9.09 Beta (Dec 23, 2009 - 11:40 AM)

    "Targeted ads, for one"
    1. So block them.
    2. Don't use their services. They are free. Don't accept cookies from any Google network.

    "without mining my data, habits, searches, how would one go about that
    that and Google seems to be embedded into most pages on the internet
    Google Analytics, Google Syndication, Google Ad Services
    frankly its disturbing"
    All blockable. Google even lets you block them and continue to use their services.

    "not to mention Chromes privacy concerns"
    Which are?

    "oh and Googles SafeBrowsing, which Firefox and the like use to cross check for harmful websites, fraud, etc honestly who knows what they do with this data, we take their word for it and that isn't smart."
    Safebrowsing is a push service, and doesn't collect personal data.

    "anyhow, those are just a few examples, there are many more"
    I should hope so. None of these is overly concerning. By the way, every other major advertising network does many of the things you list as "evil."

  8. Comment - Google's 'Open' definition: Simply brilliant business, but is it evil?

    9.09 Beta (Dec 23, 2009 - 11:19 AM)

    OS/2 was a fantastic system and died because IBM didn't market it on the same playing field Microsoft did.

    "An acquiantance of mine worked at IBM and told me OS/2 booted for half and hour"
    This is bulls***. I have an OS/2 voicemail system at work that boots in under a minute on decade old hardware. The uptime is 4.5 years, currently.

  9. Comment - Microsoft loses i4i appeal, faces Word injunction in three weeks

    9.09 Beta (Dec 23, 2009 - 11:13 AM)

    Microsoft is a patent troll. Microsoft puts their Patents in a "pool" with other patent holders, so that if and when Microsoft is sued, they can use patents from the entire field to countersue. (all the companies can do this.) On one hand this sounds evil, on the other it's a form of "Mutually Assured Destruction," where no company gains the upper hand because they will be countersued into oblivion.

    This suit is simply the result of i4i having no actual tech that can be countersued with.... yet. You can bet your a** Microsoft is looking for a way.

  10. Comment - Microsoft loses i4i appeal, faces Word injunction in three weeks

    9.09 Beta (Dec 23, 2009 - 11:09 AM)

    2010 will be out the door when they rearrange enough items to keep it fresh, and not a damn minute sooner! Their customers demand it!