In the early 2000’s about a million people would download a release of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was our product offering before Firefox and Thunderbird. We were extremely proud of this number. For 2000 or 2001 it was a very surprising number, quite large for an open-source consumer product. It was a tiny number compared to IE of course, and that product never cracked the barrier into general consumer awareness or adoption. But everyone who heard that number was astonished. In fact, that million-a-release download number helped us obtain some early support when we formed the Mozilla Foundation a couple of years later.
With Firefox, we had a million downloads well before the product reached a 1.0 phase — something like 3 million people were using Firefox as we came up to the 1.0 release in the fall of 2004. That’s partly how we sensed we had something big on our hands during the long summer of 2004 trying to finish the 1.0 version.
Today we crossed the billion download mark for Firefox. That’s an astonishing number. It reflects both the popularity of Firefox and the enormous growth of the web. The latter — the growth of the Internet — is not so surprising. The Internet is a fundamental tool for human interaction, it will grow for a while yet. The Firefox number is something else. Born of the impossible, coming into existence because it had to be, from a small band of seemingly outdated browser-centric dreamers to hundreds of millions of people.
This is a small release to fix an issue with the back button on some popular web sites (reverting r15950).
If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.
Jonathan Conradt
Engineering Program Manager
Download: Google Chrome 2.0.172.40
Microsoft today unveiled pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade (WUA) and the Windows 7 Family Pack.
Windows Anytime Uprade
WAU allows users who purchase machines with Home Premium or Starter to move up to a higher edition of Windows 7. After Windows 7 is released to market on October 22nd, you will be able to buy a retail package that contains an upgrade key from retail outlets. The pricing structure will be (US, EU, GBP):
- Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium: $79.99 · €74.99 · £69.99
- Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Professional: $114.99 · €184.99 · £119.99
- Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Ultimate: $164.99 · €204.99 · £139.99
- Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional: $89.99 · €179.99 · £119.99
- Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate: $139.99 · €189.99 · £124.99
- Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate: $129.99 · €134.99 · £84.99
Microsoft will also be offering WUA online upgrades in 13 countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK or the US.
Updated: The upgrade pricing for UK customers appears to be a rip off where Brits and Europeans will be charged almost double in some cases for Windows 7 Anytime Upgrades. Microsoft has not yet returned emails on why the pricing is almost double. It’s not immediately clear how Microsoft can charge double for what is only a code to upgrade.
Windows 7 Family Pack
Microsoft also announced that the Windows 7 Family Pack will be available on October 22 and priced at $149.99 in the US and $199.99 in Canada for three Windows 7 Home Premium licenses. Consumers will save $200 in the US by purchasing the Family Pack over individual copies. Microsoft did not supply pricing for markets other than the US and Canada.
TeamViewer is a simple and fast solution for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer that works behind any firewall and NAT proxy. To connect to another computer just run TeamViewer on both machines without the need of an installation procedure. With the first start automatic partner IDs are generated on both computers. Enter your partner’s ID into TeamViewer and the connection is established immediately. With many thousand users worldwide TeamViewer is a standard tool to give support and assistance to people in remote locations.
Changelog:
- Improved internet connection recognition
- Fix: some minor improvements in various language versions
News source: Official website
Download: TeamViewer 4.1.6467