That’s right folks, we’ve just got done fixing all of our sites to render properly in IE7 while still maintaining 100% valid (X)HTML and CSS, and they’re dropping the latest IE bomb on us, by the end of 2008, according to Bill Veghte, who heads up Microsoft’s Windows and online services division.

Perhaps you may have never heard of it. Perhaps you have heard of it. The point of this article is to discuss the differences and benefits between open source software, and closed source software. Open source software, for those that are still in the dark, is software that is released with the code behind it that makes it work, or at least that code is available somewhere, usually for free.