In one of the latest posts I wrote about
Firefox 3 aiming to set a world record during download day. As a launch date for the new internet browser is today, ZDNET has already reported rought start in
Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom. It is not a surprise as shortly after 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla's official launch time) they reached 14,000 downloads per minute! A few hours later situation got stable as I managed to download my own version of Firefox 3.
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is starting on 9th June 2008 and will last for four days. The eyes of the whole tech world will be focused on what will be happening there. The most obvious prediction is a long anticipated 3G iPhone. But instead of looking in the future, it is worth to recall some of the photos and videos from previous WWD Conferences.
WWDC 2007
This conference last year was an amazing event where we could see an OS X Leopard in action and learn more about
developing apps for an iPhone. There are some
amazing photos on Engadet and in the meantime you can watch a hilarious introduction by a PC guy -
WWDC 2007 Opening - PC Guy is Steve Jobs and a
Demo of Core Animation in OS X.
WWDC 2006
Engadget has another fantastic photo cover from the conference that took place in 2008. Similar to 2007, there was
a funny message from a PC guy in the first minutes. The event gathered 4200 people.
WWDC 2005
It was a defining moment in Apple's history when Steve Jobs announced a
switch from IBM PowerPC processors to Intel CPUs. Because of this strategic decision, today we can run Windows on Macs using Bootcamp and MacBook Pro is claimed to be one of the fastest notebooks running Windows Vista.
As I mentioned in the beginning - no rumours and predictions here. It is like opening presents before Christmas. Similar happened before the last keynote in Jan 2008 when we already knew about MacBook Air. What a shame!
Enjoy WWDC08!
David Alison who was a hardcore Windows user for 17 years, spent a lot of time to share details of his switch to Mac.
I spent 17 years using Windows, a couple more if you count the experiments with the dreadful Windows/286 & Windows/386. Man real mode sucked. I was a heavy DOS user before that. On Windows I went through 3.0, 3.1, Workgroups, NT 4.0, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista. I had spent countless hours honing my skills with the platform, both as a power user and professional software developer. How would it be possible for someone with my background to switch to a completely new platform and walk away from all of that history?
David was very surprised when his daughter, who was accepted to go to Virigina Tech was required to buy a Macintosh. It came out as a great occasion for him to play around with the new technology.
"I was just tired of Windows. There was nothing about it that really excited me. I waited 5 years for Vista to come around and when it did I was unimpressed. There was nothing that really stood out."
Enjoy reading David's exciting story on his blog:
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A hardcore Windows guy gets a Mac
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Mac: After two months of Mac, here's why I switched
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Why switching to Mac was the right move for me
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