I saw that Apple has released Safari 4 Beta

I love the way that Apple approaches design and I keep hoping upon hope that they will someday deliver a better, faster  browser instead of one that seems fast for a few things but cannot be your day to day default browser.

I think Firefox is great, fast and ugly.  I know you can skin it, etc.  You cannot turn an ugly troll like Firefox and Explorer into a princess like Safari 4 Beta.  You also cannot teach that princess (Safari 4) to walk and chew gum at the same time. Read the full story

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Apple, “We deliver freedom from choice. In the age of Open Source, we give you closed, proprietary products.”

I have a low opinion of Apple’s technical capabilities and here’s why:

Brief History:

• Apple releases Appletalk Remote Access which was stolen from Microcom’s MNP4 and then had 2 bytes switched so Apple could make it proprietary. Then Apple broke the compression in other ways to make sure industry standard devices could not function.  They licensed that ‘technology’ to third party vendors who wanted compatibility. All this while the internet and TCP/IP was starting to explode!  I know, I was there. I consulted to the ARA team at Apple. Read the full story
  

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I saw last night that the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta RC1 Download is online at Microsoft. It’s dated a 1/26/09 release.

Don’t bother to download it if you are trying the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta since it will not install.

Microsoft may have another version in the coming days or weeks, but at this moment, you will be stuck with the ‘Beta’ version and will not be able to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Beta 8 RC1 Read the full story

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