Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Use your mind and your tech skills to get win a Las Vegas trip and $2500 cash

Each day brings a new fortune for u. Here one for u. Microsoft is running a contest open to the entire world in which you can win a trip to Mix07 in Las Vegas, and $2500 cash. What you have to do is just build an addon for IE7 and submit it between nov 1, 2006 and feb 9, 2007.

Go to ieaddons.upload.com to begin the submission process. If you already have an account with upload.com you can log in with that information.

Microsoft has partnered with CNET and download.com to collect, evaluate and host addons for IEAddOns.com and the contest.

Full details about the contest, including more resources, can be found on the contest home page http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/addoncontest

In order to make it easy for you to develop your own addons, Microsoft has provided plenty of resources at http://msdn.misrosoft.com/ie

In case you r not interested in developing addons then you can check out http://ieaddons.com/ to download addons for IE7 to make browsing more customised and suit u'r needs.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Who will win the browser race???????

It seems that there is some browser race going on these days. First yahoo releases the IE7 version then the next day Microsoft releases its IE7 browser. A day or 2 after that Firefox 2.0 is released.

Microsoft IE7 features a new look providing more space to view the webpages. It has added tabbed browsing which allows to view multiple site within one IE window. It has enhanced the printing features. It allows to subscribe to RSS feeds and now you can make your searche from your favorite search engine directly from the browser. Improved security features help protect you against malicious software, and help to keep your personal data safe from fraudulent websites and online phishing scams.

You can use IE7 with-
Windows XP Service Pack 2
(SP2)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1)


Yahoo IE7 browser is essentially the IE 7 browser with a number of tweaks, such as Yahoo home pages, Yahoo as the default search engine and a Yahoo toolbar.

The following lines at http://www.mozillazine.org/ describe the release and features of Firefox 2.0


Mozilla Firefox 2 Released
The Mozilla Corporation has officially released Mozilla Firefox 2 for Microsoft
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Coming just days after the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7,
Firefox 2 offers a refreshed user interface, anti-phishing protection,
improvements to the built-in search feature, tabbed browsing changes, the
ability to restore an interrupted session, better support for Web feeds, inline
spell-checking, support for microsummaries and a number of other
enhancements.

In terms of release Yahoo stood first but who will get the most number of downloads and which will satisfy most number of customers, lets see.