IE7: Ready for download

From ABC news:

Internet Explorer 7 is now available for consumer download—or is supposed to be based on word from Microsoft officials at press time. That’s right, Easterners burning the midnight oil, Westerners still in the midst of primetime Wednesday night TV, and everyone in between should be able to point their browsers—whether that be the aged IE6, a beta of IE7, Firefox, Opera, or something else—to Microsoft’s site and download the final code sans beta or RC as part of its moniker.

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IE7: Coming November 1st

From Mircosoft:

Internet Explorer 7 will be delivered through Automatic Updates - customers should complete preparations by November 1

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Firefox RC3

From DailyTech:

Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0 RC3 to the public. This is the last developmental milestone for Firefox 2.0 and work has already commenced on Firefox 3.0. The Mozilla Foundation is confident of the quality of this RC3 according to comments made by the company’s VP for engineering, Mike Schroepfer. “If there are no showstoppers, RC3 will be it,” said Schroepfer.

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Google to buy YouTube

From The Boston Globe:

“Online search leader Google Inc. agreed to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, a deal that signaled the coming of age of Internet video.”

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Google Code Search

From PC World:

“Google has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool.

The company’s new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn’t have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts say. “

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