Mozilla Firefox withdraws 4

The latest version of the Mozilla browser, Firefox 4, has a serious bug that it now withdraws all downloaded copies.

The browser Firefox 4 which was released almost two weeks ago has already been downloaded over 10 million times. On Thursday discovered a security researcher at North Pennsylvania Institute a serious bug in the browser’s core module, which may be operating system to crash immediately when certain pages are visited. The bug is triggered if the HTML code on a website containing two levels of table elements, then a table in another table.

Researchers also warn that hackers can take advantage of the bug. By injecting the tables via the database on a site, a so-called SQL injection, a hacker can cause the crash site visitor’s computer.

The bug is in all Windows versions of Firefox 4, and Linux variants. The Mac version will however not be affected.
Since the bug is too deep in the Firefox core module can not fix with a regular update. Mozilla will therefore withdraw any downloaded installation files manually via a form on their website. Later on Friday afternoon you should be able to upload their own copy of Firefox 4th

If you do not have internet access will be possible to transfer the installation files on a storage card and send by post to:Mozilla Corporation, 650 Castro Street, Suite 300, Mountain View, CA, 94041-2021, USA. Mark the envelope “Firefox 4-team”.

Both Google and Microsoft are now investigating whether their browser can be affected by the same bug.

Dotnet Moving to Android

Now you can run Dotnet Applications on Android. This is done with Novell’s Mono, an open version of Microsoft Dotnet Platform.

Novell Launches Mono for Android. It is a variant of Microsoft Dotnet Platform that works on Google’s mobile operations. Mono is already available in official versions for including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions of SuSE and Red Hat.

Dotnet Applications for Android can be written in C # language, and also with other Dotnet Languages, for version 4 of Dotnet. You can use either Microsoft’s development tool Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Novell free tools monodevelop.

Novell has previously Mono Touch range. There is a solution to run Dotnet Application on Apple’s operating system IOS.

The statement indicates that Novell is focused on the use of C # to create Dotnet Applications for Android, although in principle, it ought to work with other Dotnet languages, like Visual Basic.

It is possible to make use of Android’s API, in addition to APIs for Dotnet. The use of Android’s APIs should mean that the possibilities of developing for multiple operating systems reduces.

In the process of creating Mono for Android, the product has been called Monodroid.

Wow! Google is too weak on the business side – Microsoft

Clouds The fight between Microsoft and Google continue. “Several clients to provide Google Apps and return to us,” said Tim O’Brien of Microsoft.

Microsoft and Google are bitter enemies in the cloud. Now Microsoft sharpens tone and tells of several customers that have left Google Apps to go back to Microsoft.

Google is far too weak on the business side, “said Tim O’Brien, director of platform strategy at Microsoft.
We will win back customers from Google. And it is clear. Everything is allowed in love and war and this is a war on many potential cloud customers. Meanwhile, Google has indicated that their App Engine for companies that can offer business software in the cloud comes in the second quarter.

Tim O’Brien says that Office 365, with Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange and Office are going well. But one problem that Microsoft is still struggling with is to convince their partners of the cloud . Microsoft knows that they will lose partners, with pricing models that cloud brings.

We expect to lose any partners in this, but also have some new, “he says. Microsoft goes through the 37 criteria when choosing a location for their data centers.

Tim O’Brien talked about having an open platform. To cloud platform Azure will get as many people as possible can be developed in more languages ​​than, say, C # and dotNet environment. He mentions, for example Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.

No one should have to learn a new language just for the development of a cloud platform. Java and other dynamic languages ​​to be able to use Azure, he says.

Growing fast of Windows 7 Phone

The latest figures show that there are now over 11 500 apps on Windows Phone Market.

According to Microsoft, the company’s new mobile operating system Windows 7 Phone achieved great success among developers. In one year the development tool for the platform downloaded 1.5 million times and over 36 000 developers are now members of the Microsoft development team for Windows Phone, Microsoft said.

The number of apps for Windows 7 Phone has now grown to 11 500 since Windows Phone Market opened in November last year. The marketplace consists of 7500 beta patches.

Users love our apps, love them. Users of Windows Phone charging an average of the bottom twelve apps a month. Given that the operating system only existed for just over four months, it is very healthy numbers, writes Microsoft’s director of Windows Phone, Brandon Watson.

Although analysts have expressed that Microsoft has managed quite well to launch development around Windows Phone.
I am very impressed with the growth in both number and quality of apps for Windows Phone. I would say that Microsoft succeeded faster than Google did with Android when it was launched, “said Al Hilwa.

Despite progress in the development of apps for Windows Phone, Microsoft has not disclosed how many phones sold since the operating system was released in October last year.