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Why is backward compatibility so important? Because humans hate change. Me too. I'm swearing left and right at Gmail and Google Calendar.
Engadget has more on the rumored Microsoft portable media player. The reactions in the comment area on Engadget are pretty interesting.
For Google, it's not about how many people you know or how many people seem to like you. It's about, mostly, who points to you and says "there's a person worth visiting." Fortune Interactive's reverse engineering to decode how search algorithms work suggests that one weighty somebody is worth more than a multitude of nobodies.
Versions 3.23 and 4.0 of the popular open source database will soon reach their end-of-life dates this year.
Microsoft has announced a new enterprise resource planning product, one that CEO Steve Ballmer thinks was both anticipated and unavoidable.
Mozilla's next incarnation of Firefox, version 2.0, currently in beta, is tentatively due for release on September 26. With that release, expect some nice upgrades to the browser's RSS and XML reader capabilities, among other functions, that will keep it on par with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.
