Mozilla Firefox 3 Download Day

Download day organized by Mozilla to enter the Guinness World Records book as most downloaded software has finished yesterday, and it seems to be a successful project but it still needs verification from GWR book officials.

The exact number of downloads is 8,549.973 of copies, or if you like to see it this way: 356000+ copies per hour or almost 6000 copies per minute!
I believe that these figures would be bigger if the servers weren't overloaded in the beginning of the countdown.
More than 3.2 million copies were downloaded from the USA while Germany was second with 820.000 copies.

It is interesting to mention that MS Internet Explorer team again send the cake for Mozilla team, as a gift for their new version release. They have done the same thing when Mozilla released version 2.0.

Openoffice.org

IMHO, Openoffice is the best Microsoft Office alternative, currently at version 2.4.1 and beta release of v.3.0.
OOO (OpenOffice.org) is bundled with software which makes perfect MS Office alternative - word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation software, graphics editor, database tool, most of which you get by buying MS Office. OOO made its own standard which is free to use and is multiplatform compatible because Openoffice has versions for many OS'es, such as Linux/Unix, Solaris etc...

The only minus I would give to OOO compared to MS Office is that MS gives us better look and feel. Or I am, just like most of us, only used to it?

The best thing is kept for the end - Openoffice.org is completely free and and therefore really worth giving it a shot!

You may find latest Openoffice.org updates on thefirstpick.com / openoffice...

Back to work

Hello everybody!

After more than half a year I just wanted to say HELLO to everyone and announce that the end came to silence on thefirstpick blog!

See you around!

Cheers!