SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark - XP SP2 vs. Vista SP1
Is browser performance affected by OS, CPU and the amount of RAM available? A comment made by dfolk in response to my Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 benchmarking post got me back to the lab to do some more benchmarking.? Here's the comment that set it off: ...
Tue Mar 11 16:01:23 PDT 2008
News to know: Excel patches; Firefox benchmarks; Spitzer and IT; YouTube; HDTV
Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring. Michael Krigsman: Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws David Morgenstern: Microsoft updates Mac Office 2008, 2004 George...
Wed Mar 12 04:00:34 PDT 2008
New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languages
At Mix '07, Microsoft promised it would add dynamic-language support to Silverlight. As of this year's Mix '08 conference, it has done so. The way Microsoft is delivering support for Ruby, Python and other dynamic languages with its Adobe-Flash competitor is via a Silverlight add-on called Dynamic ...
Tue Mar 11 07:01:36 PDT 2008
Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 - Benchmarked
And it's out! Mozilla release Beta 4 of Firefox 3.0. This latest beta refresh includes includes over 900 additional improvements related to the previous Beta 3 release. At this stage most of the improvements concentrate on areas such as security, plugging memory leaks, improving performance and tidying ...
Tue Mar 11 08:01:36 PDT 2008