Mozilla loses its head

Mozilla is getting an internal hit again. This time is the resignation of their CTO, Andreas Gal.

 
Andreas Gal is the man responsible for Mozilla's big projects - Firefox browser and Firefox OS. He is an expert in JavaScript programming language which plays a major role in Web Programming. He joined Mozilla in 2008, made his way through the organization and became CTO back in April 2014.

Gal is moving out of Mozilla to start his own company. He is in plan for a IOT (Internet Of Things) startup along with two of his Mozilla colleagues. 

Previously Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla as well as creator of JavaScript programming language moved out of Mozilla last year(2014). He moved due to political issues caused because of his donation to an anti-gay marriage cause back in 2008. Chris Beard was appointed as CEO after Eich. It was Eich who appointed Gal as CTO.

This is a big hit for Mozilla as they have lost two of their big fishes in two consecutive years. With competitors coming up everyday, tough time ahead for Mozilla.

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Pilotless Flight

Yes.. That is what Google want to do. One more crazy idea from Google X.

Self-driving cars are not the only thing that Google has been working on automation in transport. Project Wing of Google Inc. experiments the same thing with air vehicles. This project has been around for more than two years now. Last year, a testing on single-wing drone has been done in Australia. Though it passed the test of delivering packages to farmers, the design was scrapped. But that didn't stop the experimental cargo-drone team from working furthur.

Recently Dave Vos, head of Google's Project Wing, stated that they want to go beyond drones. Their vision is to automate planes (even commercial passenger planes). 

So if the self-driven cars hit the road and become success, experts say we can expect self-driven flights in next 6 to 8 years.

Though experts believe that self-driven flights will be available within the above mentioned time window, I guess it will take some more time than that.

The self-driven cars of Google are not into market completely. Currently only four states in U.S allow driver-less cars to enter their streets for testing. Google haven't released the fully functioning car yet. So it will take some time for self-driven cars to root well among us. If things go well with cars, then flight idea will be easy for them. If not, then they will have a hard time convincing people about autonomous products.

Moreover the risk is greater in space than in roads. Road is just two dimensional. It's been almost 7 years now (self-driving car project started in 2008) and Google couldn't come up with the product yet. This explains the complexity in work. Now comes space, which is three dimensional. So it will take more time to deal with the increased complexity. 


According to me self-driven flights will be my kids' transport medium. The next generation will use this tech, if things go good :)

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Microsoft meets Linux - Positively

Recently Microsoft CEO created a buzz in computer world by stating that 'Microsoft loves Linux'. It's been quite some time but still people can't believe what they have heard !

Now comes another shock. Microsoft is going to enter the Linux desktop world, with it's new Linux flavor which will be called 'Miux'.

Looks like the two great rivals are going to join paths very soon. We still remember what the former CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer said about Linux - 'Linux is a cancer'. But with new head, new thoughts have arrived in Microsoft. Now they are working with a technology which they have been attacking for years!

This Miux is expected to have advantages of Linux kernel and Microsoft's interface. So there will be reduced security vulnerabilities, faster performance and no requirement for restart on every update on seeing from Windows part. From Linux part, the advantage will be better UI and bigger reach in desktop market. Other than that I couldn't find any real advantage for Linux in this partnership. It will be more advantage for Windows rather than Linux.

Will it be free? Of course it will not be. I don't expect Microsoft to give away their work for free without any advantage for them. According to sources, it might be as much as half of what they charge for Windows.

With Windows 10 ready to hit the market real soon, this announcement from Microsoft made tech world to focus eyes on Microsoft more curiously. 




PS: Article based on information from itsfoss.com, zdnet.com and Microsoft's blog.

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