Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom department highlights Glitch strands Microsoft business customers and Near-final Firefox 3.6 out for testing
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Glitch strands Microsoft business customers
Microsoft’s efforts to revamp a Web site that handles software licensing for businesses have resulted in hours of frustration for some of the company’s most loyal customers.
Problems arose early last month when Microsoft aimed to consolidate three separate Web sites into a single, more secure site. Almost immediately, Microsoft could tell something was wrong as customers were unable to sign into the site.
While unable to log in, business customers and the partners that manage software for businesses can’t do things like download software, obtain necessary license keys, and manage volume licenses.
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Near-final Firefox 3.6 out for testing
Mozilla has released its first release candidate, RC1, for Firefox 3.6.
The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser’s appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and perhaps most significantly given the competitive threat from Google Chrome, shortens start-up time and improves responsiveness and JavaScript performance.
Firefox 3.6 RC1 is available from Mozilla’s download site.
People can notice skins and better performance, but there also are changes deeper under the hood that developers should know about. One is support for the File interface, which can help with tasks like uploading multiple photos and is part of the draft HTML5 standard effort. Another deeper change is running scripts asynchronously, which can help load a Web page faster by putting off some work until the high-priority chores are complete.
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