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Firefox Soars on Germany’s Browser Warning
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20 Jan 2010Germans appear to be heeding the advice of their government and seeking out alternatives to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser.
Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, say they’ve seen a significant surge in downloads of the software in Germany in the days since a Germany government agency recommended people switch to browsers that compete with Internet Explorer because of a new security flaw in the Microsoft browser. A chart prepared by Mozilla shows that German downloads of Firefox spiked in the four days following the Friday posting of the recommendation by the German agency, which is called the Federal Office for Information Security (or, using its German initials, BSI).
Mozilla says it received about 300,000 incremental downloads above its typical downloading rate over that time period. Mozilla didn’t yet have download figures for France, where the French government has also advised people to try non-Microsoft browsers because of the security flaw.
The uptick echoes a download surge for another Microsoft rival, Norway’s Opera Software, which said the number of downloads in Germany of its Opera browser doubled to 18,000 a day over the weekend.
Both countries are responding to Microsoft’s confirmation of a security hole that is believed to have been exploited by hackers in a recent cyberattack on Google and other companies in China.
Microsoft, meanwhile, on Tuesday said it plans to release a software update soon that will help protect Internet Explorer users from the security vulnerability. The company said it will provide more details about the update on Wednesday.
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The angels have the Arc Light.
March 19th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Speculations:
Since it's China, I think a two-tier system there will be likely, with those in positions of power using knowledge of English to maintain the status quo over the workers. (Russian too, perhaps, I don't know enough about those interactions to guess.) Japanese uses the Chinese symbols for words, although the pronunciation is different because they are different languages, (advantages of pictograms over phonetics) and the adaptations to go between the two are already in place.
It'll be trendy for western kids to study Chinese at university and Chinese films will (hopefully
be more popular.
Since China already has a huge workforce, the most interesting thing (I think) could be 1) influx of workers from neighbouring countries and 2) outsourcing from China. So we might have Indian workers gaining fluency in Chinese.
The Chinese already have a strong presence in Africa. That's your case study, Samian, go research that.
KitKat
March 21st, 2010 at 5:33 am
no