Filed under: Microsoft, Mozilla
Codename watch: Windows "Fiji" and Firefox "Minefield"
The releases of Windows Vista ("Longhorn") and Firefox 2.0 ("Bon Echo") are slowly creeping
up on us, but Microsoft and Mozilla always have their eyes on the next move. Both software makers have chosen codenames
for the next-next versions of their flagship products. Microsoft's next version of Windows has been given the codename
"Fiji," and Firefox 3.0 will be called
"Minefield" (with a cute little logo to match). Why Fiji and Minefield? Who knows. Fiji is short, snappy,
and tropical. Minefield, on the other hand, is exciting and aggressive but also kind of worrisome If anything's
certain, though, it's that these nicknames will only stick around until the products' final releases, at which point it
won't really matter.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
