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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
