These are some very cool and innovative tools for emulating (not simulating) a Cisco Lab with real IOS images. The first thing you’ll want to look into is:
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These are some very cool and innovative tools for emulating (not simulating) a Cisco Lab with real IOS images. The first thing you’ll want to look into is:
then…
and then…
then some…
courtesy of…
I found out that Microsoft is planning on releasing Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 later this year and that it’s going to be geared towards end users rather than developers. Yipee. None of the new features of IE 8 are particularly interesting to me and I know that I will find the same functionality on Firefox eventually through Add-ons.
I found an article on the New York Times website describing the new Firefox 3 release and the state of the current browser wars.
“SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing. Next month, after three years of development and six months of public testing, Mozilla, the insurgent browser developer that rose from the ashes of Netscape, will release Firefox 3.0. It will feature a few tricks that could change the way people organize and find the sites they visit most frequently.”
Like Paul Thurrott said, it IS interesting to read what the mainstream press has to say about technology related matters. Most news organizations have no idea what is really going on with technology and they usually butcher tech news stories. At any rate, it was fun to read some of the interviews and see some interplay between Mozilla and Microsoft in the article.
My personal feelings are that Mozilla is much more powerful than people give it credit for. I think despite Microsoft saying they love a challenge, they’d better love it, because Mozilla is not going to stop at Firefox 3. Also, open-source and Linux are moving at an alarming rate of popularity and the potential benefits of these platforms could jeopardize Microsoft’s strangle hold on the web.
I’d love to see a day where Mozilla has 85% market share of the web browser market, I think that will be a day of reckoning for Microsoft. Although, at that point it’d be safe to say the company would be vanquished, at least in the browser division. Paul Thurrott thinks that Mozilla is more evolutionary than innovative and that’s fine. I think he might be right. But that doesn’t stop the force that is Mozilla. And Mozilla will continue to chip away at Internet Explorer until they either screw up badly or IE takes a turn for the worst. I can’t wait to watch the show.
