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The non-profit Mozilla has just released the first beta of the next generation of Firefox earlier today. Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 features a brand new user interface, support for multiple new future web technologies including enhanced HTML support, WebSockets, and a more aggressive update schedule. This marks Mozilla’s first release of their plan for the future of the world’s second most popular... 

Ever wanted Firefox to have an isolated plugin environment similar to Google Chrome? When plugins like Flash, Silverlight, and Quicktime freeze, do you really want the entire browser to go down? Of course not. Mozilla Lorentz is Mozilla’s much anticipated OOPP (Out-Of-Process-Plugin) feature. Finally, plugins will be run as their own process and if they crash, users can simply reload the page... 

For all of the fans of the popular WordPress blogging system (myself included), the first public beta of the next generation of WordPress has just been released a few days ago. Besides regular bug fixes, WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 introduces numerous new features including a new default theme, custom post types, and the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU. WP Admin Dashboard You may notice the dashboard... 

Last Thursday, Opera released a public beta of the next major release of the Opera browser, and declared it as the fastest browser on earth. Opera 10.50 introduces many new features including a simpler interface getting rid of the menu bar, like other browsers are doing, private browsing mode, Windows 7 integration features such as Jump Lists and Tab Taskbar Thumbnails (with Aero Peek), and of course,... 

Around the same time Microsoft released Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta, they also released a private invite-only beta of Microsoft Office Starter 2010, which is an ad-supported version of Word and Excel. As the name implies, this is a starter edition intended mainly for individuals to try out Office before purchasing the full version. Microsoft plans to release Office Starter 2010 as a free ad-supported... 

Microsoft released Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta to the general public on Wednesday which is packed with dozens of new features and enhancements as well as a redesigned logo and new application icons. The most popular applications in the suite are Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, so what’s new in 2010 (Office 14) compared to 2007 (Office 12)? All applications feature a new splash screen with... 

The beta version of the next version of Microsoft’s popular office suite, Microsoft Office 2010, has just been released to the public today. This new release includes dozens of new features, including Windows 7 Integration, Online Document Syncing, and the Ribbon GUI on more products, such as OneNote, Publisher, and Visio along with some new application icons and a redesigned logo.  Read More →

Google Chrome 4 Beta was released somewhere around a week ago. Here’s a roundup of the beta for those of you who have not heard of it yet. On the outside, Chrome 4 Beta looks the same as Chrome 3, and feels the same. The only noticeable difference is the new “sync bookmarks” option, and a few “unofficial” extensions for Chrome, such as WOT. Below is a screenshot of...