Dell Stores are currently having a netbook that apparently comes loaded with that well-known Microsoft operating system, Ubuntu 8.04.
The product is shown in the Company’s UK website. You can buy an Intel-based Inspiron Mini 10 laptop for £199 from the same website.
Mozilla has announced that the popular browser Firefox, currently in version 3.5, has surpassed 1 billion lifetime downloads, a nice milestone for the open source software.
The original Firefox was released in 2004. and now it has the market share of 20-30 % of all browsers. The leading one is the inetenet explorer which comes bundled with all micorsoft operating systems. But After firefox is launched the market share for IE always been decreasing. And now it has a market share of 60%. The new and emerging browsers like Google Chrome Apple Safari etc holds a market share of 2-5 % of all.
Just last year, Mozilla set the Guinness world record for most new downloads in a 24 hour period when Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8 million times in its first day.
The billion download figure, does, by Mozilla’s account, include all types of downloads of the software, including manual updates. It also includes users who download multiple copies, normally to place on multiple computers within a same household
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You can check the milestone celebration site here: Onebillionplusyou
