heise online news 16/10/2008

heise online news 16/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Flash Player 10 released Flash Player 10 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is now available to download › Read article     Bounteous October patch day at Microsoft In a sweeping move, Microsoft is fixing critical, moderate and important vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, MS Office, Excel, some server services and various Windows system components › Read article     Firefox 3.1 beta has new Javascript engine The new beta version of Firefox 3.1 includes faster Javascript and support for Geo-location › Read article     Beta version of the LSB 4.0 Linux standard released The Linux Foundation offers a preview of the next version of the Linux Standard Base, which is slated to appear by the end of the year with a beta release. LSB-compatible software should run on all distributions that support the standard › Read article     Third alpha of Thunderbird 3 previews new features The third alpha of Thunderbird 3, codenamed "Shredder", offers new features like an integrated calendar, more convenient emailing and improved contact management › Read article     Silverlight 2 is ready Microsoft has issued the second version of Silverlight, its browser plug-in. A challenger to Flash, it communicates with web services and includes components for user interfaces within the browser › Read article     heise online background Windows 7 - O RLY? The version of Windows that follows Vista (which internally calls itself Windows 6.0) is to be called Windows 7 - but that version number doesn't quite tally up with the history of the product. › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.