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Mozilla Firefox breaks non-existent world record - nobody cares

Remember, that whole Firefox download day thing that we got so amped up about? Us too.

Remember when their servers screwed the pooch for most of "Download Day"? Us too.

How about that vulnerability that affected all 8 zillion of us who downloaded version 3? Yep, we remember that too.

Now you can put all those rough memories behind and sleep easy. Today, Mozilla "officially" announced setting the record, with 8,002,530 downloads on the release day of Firefox 3. It's fair to point out that, nothing was broken here... this was a new record, hence "setting" and not "breaking".

Will you remember Mozilla set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours on June 18th, 2008? Neither will we.

But congrats on still being #2 Firefox. Let us know when that changes and we'll jump around and party like it's 2035!

Filed under: OS Updates, Video, Windows, Microsoft, Commercial

Microsoft's boring first Vista ad - VIDEO

Vista adWith the official launch of Windows Vista last Thursday Microsoft has kicked its marketing machine into high gear. Or maybe more like medium gear. The very first advertisement for Vista is making the online rounds, and it's decidedly unthrilling. Okay, I realize I might not exactly in Microsoft's target market--after all, Vista is only available to business customers right now, so the eyeballs this commercial are aimed at are those in the skulls of CEOs and committees who will buy into the hype and demand their underlings deploy it throughout the corporation--but seriously, take a little polish off the swoopy graphics and a little fidelity out of the soundtrack and what you've got, basically, is a glorified PowerPoint presentation.

Anyway, I guess it's a bit to late for me to say "judge for yourselves," but you can check out the full ad after the jump.

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