Firefox on the beeb

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It's on BBC World, and I think on News 24. There are clips on the BBC World website, although they're in MS format, so you need a well-endowed mplayer to play them, and some messing around with URLs.

Hehe - Mr Noakes & Miss Singleton, I think?!

They need a new code-base. I can see them doing a Mac, with a mach kernel and BSD code for utilities, and something like Wine for running old-style binaries.

Whether it's worth it is an interesting question for MS now - if they'd done this perhaps 5 years ago, they might've been able to hand onto their monopoly, as they could've argued a superior product, but that opportunity has now gone. Perhaps they'll be better taking a new code-base into embedded work, like an Xbox which doesn't crash, or fixing the British Rail boards which so often have BSODs on them, when they used to have train times back when the system was unix.

-- end Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk Goda's Truism: By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.