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This article was written on August 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

We have all been wanting to know what Microsoft is going to charge for Vista and Office 2007 but they said they weren’t going to release their pricelist until later this year. Well, a sneaky person over in the Neowin forums found out that they already have the software on Microsoft’s Canadian Pricelist Web site. I guess the cost may not be the same as the United States but it will probably be close.

I have taken the liberty of converting the currency to U.S. dollars:

Vista:

• Vista Home Basic Upgrade – $116
• Vista Home Premium Upgrade – $179
• Vista Business Upgrade – $225
• Vista Home Basic – $234
• Vista Home Premium – $270
• Vista Ultimate Upgrade – $270
• Vista Business – $342
• Vista Ultimate – $450

Office 2007:

• OneNote 2007 – $125
• Outlook 2007 – $143
• Publisher 2007 – $225
• Excel 2007 – $279
• PowerPoint 2007 – $279
• Word 2007 – $279
• Office Small Business 2007 – $567
• Office Pro 2007 – $685
• Project 2007 – $798
• Office Ultimate 2007 – $811

There you have it…a nice estimate of what Microsoft flagship products will run you if you want to play with the latest software. I’m sure some of the prices will be rounded a little nicer but they sound reasonable accurate. I could definitely see this being the most pirated version of Windows and Office yet!

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This article was written on July 21, 2009 by CyberNet.

Mozilla just wrapped up the Firefox 3.5 release a few weeks ago, but they are already going to town on what they can do for future improvements. When they redesigned Firefox 3.0 I thought the new designs were okay, but they weren’t anything that seemed to be revolutionary.

What’s neat about Mozilla, however, is that they’re not afraid to show the world what they’re thinking about doing months or even years ahead of time. They aren’t afraid of the competition coming along and outdoing them, and as a result they can get a lot of quality feedback so that they can fine tune the various aspects of the browser before it gets shipped out to the world.

Keeping in that spirit Mozilla has released some rather polished mockups of the route they’re thinking about going for Firefox 3.7. There’s no word on when Firefox 3.7 is planned to be available, but the last I heard Firefox 3.6 is due out in mid-2010. I’m guessing that puts Firefox 3.7 somewhere in 2011. So don’t get too excited quite yet, because by the time that version is released these design styles may already be outdated.

Below you’ll find some of the various mockups for Firefox 3.7 on Windows, and then I also stumbled upon one Firefox 4.0 mockup that is more of the “hand drawn” style. Before I jump into the screenshots I wanted to pull a quote that I found on the MozillaWiki:

This is sometimes a hard area to explore. Windows applications are not known for their visual design savvy.

They then go on to reference Paint (the Windows 7 version), Zune Player software, and Postbox as being three applications that have nice interfaces. They also mention wanting to remove the Menu Bar, and making the entire interface a bit more streamlined. The screenshots show that they are doing just that:

Firefox 3.7 Mockups (click thumbnail to enlarge)

Firefox 4.0 Mockup (click thumbnail to enlarge)

So what do you think? Is Mozilla on the right track? By the time they actually get these out the door will they already be labeled as outdated?

via Mozilla Wiki [here and here]
Thanks Christian!

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