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Get Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Internet explorer 7 - you can get it from here.

I did some changes on my website www.orosandrei.ro. I decided to add a direct link in the main menu to the tour of Romania gallery for a better visibility.

I also changed the Photo section. I added links to my main online galleries.

PS: all the pictures on my website are mine, except the one from Contact, but i will change that soon

After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal

.. even if Microsoft raised the initial offer with an extra $5 bil.

I've been watching for a few days now the buzz created by Microsoft announcing an offer of no less than $44,6 billion for Yahoo. I think that this way Microsoft officially admits Googles supremacy over the online market.

Googles answer, Yahoo and the future of Internet is a very interesting one, making a parallel between the PC market (where Microsoft has monopoly) and the Internet one where Google is leader with 40% (+ Doubleclick soon).

Google sees things very simple: now the Internet is open, encouraging innovation and after the Microsoft+Yahoo deal it would become not so open because of Microsoft who would try to impose itself in a similar manner to the OS market.

Another side of the story would be the human resources one, as pointed by Eduard Koller, a Microsoft employee. Because of the fusion of the two giants an extra 25% personal (Microsoft currently has about 60 000 employees) who grew in Yahoo corporate culture, very different from the Microsoft one, would join the software giant. There will be lots of restructuring and the entire process will take many years.

Not so long ago i was very glad to hear that Apple decided to port Safari to Windows.

I was glad mainly because I could test on my PC the way websites I was working on looked in Safari. My first impression was that the user interface didn't integrate at all with the Windows native interface.. but on the other hand i was thinking that maybe that is not a bad thing (see Apple User Interface Guidelines).

Safari crashed a lot but that and a few security problems were fixed with an update. At the moment the only bug I get is that from time to time pages and websites don't load. I refresh a few times and after that it works. I hope they'll fix that soon.

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