A Mozilla spokesperson said the final release of the company’s latest web browser, version 3.5, will be available for download on Tuesday morning Pacific Time (Wednesday morning NZ time).

The upgrade just snakes in under Mozilla’s deadline wire of 30 June, although it’s six months after when it originally planned to release the browser.

Firefox 3.1 morphed into 3.5 earlier this year, partly as acknowledgement of the delays, and partly because enough new features were added on top of the current 3.0 version to warrant it.

The European Commission says Microsoft’s plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 on the continent actually makes the situation worse for retail buyers, but should be good for those picking up a new PCs.

 The EU anti-trust body has just issued a statement in reaction to Microsoft’s plan to ship an Internet Explorer-less version of Windows 7 in Europe.

"The commission had suggested to Microsoft that consumers be provided with a choice of web browsers," the statement reads.

Mozilla Corp. has delayed the release candidate of Firefox 3.5 from this week ‘til next, but NBR's tests reveal it'll be worth the wait - this fox is blazingly fast.

Typically the browser itself will ship two weeks after the release candidate, allowing for final bugs to be fixed, which means the company will be pushing it to reach its end-of-month deadline for Firefox 3.5's final code.

Shocking long-time observers, Microsoft has confirmed rumours that its Internet Explorer web browser will be removable from Windows 7.

Earlier this week, a screen shot (below) leaked to developer blog sites, appearing to show a setup screen in Windows 7 that let a user uninstall IE 8. Previous beta versions of Windows 7 had not featured such a “kill switch”.

Where did that monopoly go? Microsoft’s IE is losing ground to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and a surprisingly fast-rising Apple Safari, say new global and New Zealand stats.

Web metrics firm Net Applications, which monitors thousands of sites worldwide, found Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) sunk to a record low of 67.55% during January (figures include all versions).

Microsoft has finally unveilled plans to attack Google's popular online Apps head on.

Google's online applications, such as Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, and a raft of free or low-cost imitators including Zoho Business, ThinkFree and HyperOffice offer a lot of the functionality of Microsoft Office. The key difference is that they follow the software-as-a-service model, with all their programs, and the data created by them, stored and shared over the internet.