Ace on Tech: Stardust Ed.

Microsoft has revealed its packaging for Windows Vista and Office 2007. Furthermore, there are some screenshots available of Vista’s new organic, sleek icons (courtesy of Paul Thurrott). Box style is similar to Mac Office’s and are designed to be compliant to the aforementioned icons.

Article and images courtesy: Paul Thurrott
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_office2007_packaging.asp

Mozilla finally released its next-generation web browser Firefox 2. I’ve been playing around with the RCs the last few weeks, but never got to in-depth testing, neither did I use it full-time due to incompatibility issues with my add-ons. Now the final release’s here, and I’ll definitely install it and put it to the test. [...]

There has been quite a heated discussion spread around about Microsoft’s latest publication on the licensing scheme it’ll be conducting for Vista. The corporation states that the “new” license is nothing but a clarification of certain points. It was made to allow ‘normal’ people to actually read the EULA for a change. The most notable [...]

Microsoft recently released Vista RC2 (Build 5744) to testers and will soon release to the public, too. RC2 is the last interim build before Vista’s released for RTM at the end of this month. On schedule, Windows Vista will become available on January 30th, 2007.

Reuters:
A firm is hoping a mobile phones security system it has developed which sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and wipes all data if stolen, will halt the spiralling rise in phone theft.
The Remote XT technology, designed to make phones unusable, and therefore worthless if they are stolen, works by installing [...]