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This article was written on June 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mozilla finally plans on unleashing the Firefox 2 upgrade onto all Firefox 1.5.0.12 users. Starting later today, and continuing for the first few weeks, the upgrade will only be available for those people using 1.5.0.12 that are also on the "beta" channel. When the update pops up it will look something like this:

As you can see when I was testing it I had extensions installed that were not compatible with Firefox 2. I did that on purpose because I wanted to see if it would notify the user before proceeding with the upgrade. Here is what happens during the rest of the upgrade process:

• If a user selects “Later”, they will be prompted again in approximately 24 hours.
• If a user selects “Never”, they are opting to skip this offer to upgrade and will not be prompted again for this particular release (2.0.0.4). If Mozilla decides to offer a 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.5 major upgrade, the user will be prompted again with that new offer.
• If a user selects “Get the new version”, they will be asked to accept the revised End User License Agreement (EULA) for Firefox 2 in order to proceed with the upgrade. The major update will then be downloaded and the browser restarted with Firefox 2.0.0.4 as the current version.

I’m really excited to see that this is finally happening after Mozilla stated that nearly 40% of their users had not upgraded to Firefox 2. That number astounded me because I expected it to be in the 10% to 15% range, but I was obviously pretty far off. Of course I also think that Mozilla should have been pushing users to upgrade several months ago, instead of 7-months after-the-fact.

Source: Mozilla Developer News

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That’s no typo, folks, Microsoft’s own-brand pseudo-smartphones are back at Verizon, this time sporting an “m” appendage to their names and what looks like better pricing across the board. The Kin ONEm will set you back a cent under $20 with a two-year contract, whereas the TWOm costs just under $50 but is also subject to a Buy One Get One Free offer (the free phone being an LG Ally). We’ve spotted Zune Pass is still present on the pair, though it’s on a “WiFi and sideload only” basis, seemingly forbidding 3G streaming. Plans start at $39.99 for voice and $9.99 for 25MB of data (while the $9.99 option is advertised, the cheapest data plan we’re presently able to add is the $15 a month 150MB option), plus there’s a $35 activation fee. Compared to the original pricing, which had the One asking for $50 in upfront costs and $70 as the minimum levy for voice plus data, we’d say this is a definite move in the right direction. A few months late, but better late than never, eh?

[Thanks, Wyatt]

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There are many reasons to be excited about Windows Phone 7, but a bleak spot has been Microsoft’s message — or lack thereof — on user-expandable storage, and the situation finally came to a head last week when AT&T told Samsung Focus owners to hold off on buying microSD cards altogether until Microsoft had a chance to certify some for use with the platform. How did it get to this point? Why wasn’t it communicated to users that this was such a problem before the phones ever went on sale? And if it really is such a problem, why did Samsung dare to make the microSD slot user-accessible in the Focus the first place? All good questions — and in talking with a number of sources the past few days, we’ve pieced together some of the answers. Read on.

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So, there’s already an open source driver for the Kinect — who needs to learn how to reverse engineer USB all over again? Well, ladyada of Adafruit Industries, the folks responsible for the Kinect hack bounty and the USB logs used by the bounty winner to get a jump on his hack, has published a detailed guide on exactly how she sniffed the Kinect’s USB chatter. The guide isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s not completely unintelligible to someone with a bit of time and determination. If anything it serves as an excellent bit of how-the-Kinect-was-won history. We’re not expecting Microsoft to reconsider its “Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products” stance on this issue, or its petty threat of law enforcement “to keep Kinect tamper-resistant,” but we do hope they’ve learned one thing by now: they’re fighting a losing battle.

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Microsoft’s Windows division has been on something of a roll recently, but a deeper look into the company’s financials seems to indicate that the reported numbers might look better than reality. Information Week has done some deep digging into Microsoft’s recent SEC filings and found that several bookkeeping changes resulted in significantly increased reportings of revenues in the company’s Windows division. Revenues that had been assigned in previous quarters to other divisions within the company — mostly the Entertainment and Devices unit which includes highly successful businesses such as Xbox — were, in this past quarter, re-assigned to the Windows operating system division.

So just how much money was moved? Well, according to Information Week and the relevant SEC filings statements, about $259 million, or a boost of 6.5% in revenue to the division overall for a total of $4.24 billion rather than the $3.98 billion originally stated for Q1 2010. This also resulted in a 25% reduction in revenue for EDD, while the total — $12.92 billion — stayed exactly the same. Of course, all these bookkeeping maneuvers mean that Redmond’s Windows division looked like it was making a decent amount more cash than it actually was, and when taking into account another complex move — that of deferring $1.5 billion in upgrade revenues from Windows Vista machines sold in Q4 2009 to Windows 7 in Q1 2010 — the resulting picture is a bit different than it would appear on the surface. Ultimately, it looks like Microsoft raked in an 11% increase in Windows revenue rather than the 66% reported, when removing both the bookkeeping changes from other units and the upgrade deferrals. Of course, this is all apparently technically on the up-and-up, in terms of financial reporting is concerned, but it does give some insight into the stunning profits recorded in the Windows division as of late.

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