Microsoft quietly released Internet Explorer 8 last week without the usual fanfare that goes with a new Internet Explorer release. With that in mind reviews have been fairly slim on the ground but that’s not surprising. The fact of the matter is that the latest incarnation of IE just doesn’t bring much new to the table. The major improvements according to Microsoft’s own web site are around catching up with Firefox and the other web browsers in the areas of security and privacy and some minor UI additions to make browsing a bit better. Which I must say are quite nifty but definitely not ground breaking with most features being available through various third party plugins.
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iPhone catching up but still has a long way to go
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009This week Apple released a teaser list of what new features we’ll see in the iPhone/iPod 3.0 firmware. While the list certainly looks impressive and I’m sure many of them will be invaluable for iPhone users the list is mainly functionality that should have been released in the initial firmware. There are still a lot missing many of them downright obvious (like video recording) others impossible without the release of new phone hardware (video calling, higher resolution camera, replaceable batteries).
So what I’ll present in this article is an abbreviated list of the most important updates along with commentary covering why they’re so crucial to the success of the phone and even questioning why they weren’t present in the the earlier revisions of the phone. I’ll then wrap up the article with some of the commentary I’ve heard from various users about what’s still needed to bring the phone up to scratch. Only then can you iPhone users look down on us smart phone users.