Ahh the smell of spring is in the air! What does that mean? Beta software of course! First out of the blocks is for our linux friends.. and it’s the Fedora 9 OS. Here is the official first look at this beta.

I’ll be honest.. I was never one to believe in backup. I never believed in a RAID setup. Online backups were too expensive and time consuming. I’ve had crashes before but never much more than that.
Then I tried to install OSX86 on my Windows drive — uh oh. I lost everything on that [...]

Apple announced in a statement yesterday that OSX 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until at least October.
“While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.”

We previously reported that the OS was originally planned to be released during Apple’s WWDC in June. [...]

Warner Home Video has just announced 2 new Matrix HD-DVD collections coming on May 22. The Ultimate Matrix Collection (HD-DVD) and The Complete Matrix Trilogy (HD-DVD) will take you inside The Matrix universe as never before.
Both sets are under $100 and we have no idea what is in each set, although the Ultimate [...]

Thinksecret, a Apple insider site is reporting that Apple is currently planning to release Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in June, mostly likely at or around its Worldwide Developers Conference.
“Leopard is shaping up to be a more significant release than anyone expected, with much more to come than any of the developer builds have led [...]

Bill Gates has always believed the computer should be the centerpiece of your entertainment living room. Now with the strong sales of the Xbox 360 , the push is continuing towards that goal. In addition to the high definition movie download service Microsoft launched earlier this year, you can expect an IPTV service to launch [...]

HiDefDVD.com, a leading high definition DVD movie retailer, is already seeing a strong upswing in DVD sales this holiday season thanks to emerging high def formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
“We’re pretty surprised, actually,” stated VP Shaun Guidolin of hidefdvd.com. “Movies have always seemed to be a product that drives customers to the re-buy factor. First it [...]

A Day a long time in the making, Vista’s team has just announced that Vista is finished and has been given to manufacturing for duplication.
And just what is this so-called RTM? It’s the major milestone where we can confidently say that Microsoft is done with Windows Vista and will be handing it off [...]

Unlike the fanfare of the IE 7 Release last week, Firefox 2 has quietly snuck onto the web.
The release isn’t directly accessable from their website, and in fact their homepage sends users to the Firefox RC3 page still.
According to our source Mozilla will make 2.0 will be made official tomorrow.
[via Neowin]

1 day 1 bug, sounds like a routine day around Redmond. “less critical” vulnerability aside today is a big day for Microsoft as IE7 has been given it’s full release.
We expect millions of customers will upgrade to IE7 because it’s safer and easier. Some e-commerce and financial services companies like Paypal and VeriSign are [...]