I happen to come across the Mozilla Developer’s Calendar which has the preliminary release schedule for Firefox 2.0: August 23rd, Beta 2 UPDATED September 8th, Release Candidate 1 UPDATED September 15th, Release Candidate 2 UPDATED September 22nd, Release Candidate 3 UPDATED September 26th, FF 2.0 FINAL RELEASE All the releases are about a month later than the Historical Schedule dates. Not too bad considering MS may not have Windows Vista ready by the projected January 2007 date. A Seattle-based software developer (not MS or Mozilla) has challenged Bill Gates to a $10,000 bet: He says Windows Vista will not be…
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On June 30th, Todd Bishop of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviewed Mozilla Firefox Co-Founder Blake Ross over lunch at Gnomedex. This is very good interview and covers a lot ground. There are a few questions/answers that I want to expound upon. Q: The community is at work on Firefox 2.0. Given the success of the first Firefox, is there pressure to make big advances with the second one? Ross: Some of the feedback we have gotten about the 2.0 release (test version) has been, what’s new here? It looks like the 1.0 release because most of the work that has been…