It was only yesterday that we said when various people would be getting the final RTM copy of Windows 7. Well today, Microsoft has announced via the Windows Team Blog that Windows 7 has been Released to Manufacturers (RTM) and that the final build is 7600.16385.090713-1255, one build version up from the leaked copy of 7600 we saw last week.

OEMs should be expecting the RTM copy in around 2 days, with all TechNet and MSDN subscribers having to wait until August 6 to try out the final build of Windows 7. Keep tuned at The SDF to hear their thoughts on the final copy of Windows 7 when they can get it.

(Post taken straight from The PC Report)

According to Microsoft: Internet Explorer 8 vs Mozilla Firefox vs Google Chrome

It may seem that Microsoft is scared of losing even more market share to Firefox and Chrome. They have resorted to blatant lies; and dirt trowing at the competition. A good product should be able to stand on it’s own, just like a good politician should talk about his plans, achievements and ideals for making life better instead of spending all his time and effort attacking and criticizing his competitors.

However it’s good to know Microsoft has some new ads that talk about the ‘awesomeness’ of it’s web browsing application, look at them and share your thoughts! I’ll share my favorite MS ad so far first, it’s about Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Browsing or as we like to call it porn mode:

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S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. (Sharing Accelerators):

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F.O.M.S. (Web Slices)

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G.R.I.P.E.S. (Speed improvements)

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Diffuse running on Windows XP

I found a tool for Windows and Linux called Diffuse that allows you to compare multiple text documents in the same window. I took this summary from their site:

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion, and SVK repositories for comparison and merging.

You can download it here by clicking on the “Download” link and chosing the appropriate download. If your using Debian/Ubuntu you can simply open the terminal and write: sudo apt-get install diffuse or sudo aptitude install diffuse. There are also some  alternatives (Linux-only) like Meld for Gnome and Kompare for KDE.

Outlook 2000 vs 2010

A picture says a thousend words. Well, this one says three, What the Fuck?

It looks like Microsoft Outlook 2010 (torrent/mirror) is going to use the old, non-standared following, HTML render engine that Internet Explorer used and now Word uses! (dont we all love it?) Apparently MS is using this old engine to stay consistant and not suffer any performance loss, here a quote from an Outlook Product Manager Dev:

“I am aware of where this decision on our part places Outlook from a standards perspective – at the same time, we ask that you consider the benefits Outlook users get from having Word tools in their e-mail authoring experience. [...] Having multiple HTML engines could reduce performance, as well as create an inconsistency in terms of what type of content the user is able to create vs. consume.” – Source

I’m not sure he has a point, they should just fix their damn engine if they’re so worried about performance lost and inconsistency. I hope the campain against this change works, remember it’s still a beta! If it dosent, I just hope people start using alternatives like Thunderbird, Kontact, Mutt, Evolution or any other mail client whose developers actually care about displaying web pages correctly by following certain standards.