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  1. Firefox 2.0 alpha 1 is available<\/a>. Very little new external functionality as yet; mostly this alpha for developers to poke and prod at.\n
  2. Bill Gates admits (again) that M$ blew it with Internet Explorer<\/a> and its lackadaisical browser support and development since IE6 came out five years ago<\/em>. Though he followed it up<\/a> with all sorts of “IE7 will rock!” rhetoric.<\/p>\n
  3. Windows Vista, the next Windows OS, has been pushed (again) back to 2007<\/a>. Though IE7 may (or may not) be released before that as a stand-alone browser. (I thought I recalled M$ saying that wasn’t possible, at least when it came to unbundling <\/em>IE from the OS.)<\/ol>\n

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    Firefox 2.0 alpha 1 is available. Very little new external functionality as yet; mostly this alpha for developers to poke and prod at. Bill Gates admits (again) that M$ blew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9835,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/firefox_20.html","url_meta":{"origin":8917,"position":0},"title":"Firefox 2.0 …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Oct-06 10:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... is out. 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