Our application has finally been made to use external localization files for interface captions, and we would like to ask you to translate it into your mother tongue. The file is just about 22 Kbytes long, so it shouldn't take too much time. Any volunteers for eternal glory?

Please, reply here stating the language you are willing to translate siClient into; we will then email you the original .lng file. Please note that we will only accept one request per language, but collaborations and corrections are certainly welcome.

Google paid two $1,337 bounties for work that let Chrome avoid critical security problems by sidestepping vulnerabilities in Windows and the widely used glibc software library, according to a Monday blog post about Chrome 5.0.375.125 by Jason Kersey of Google's Chrome team.

Also through its program to reward those who find Chrome security holes, Google paid those who found three high-risk vulnerabilities and one medium-risk vulnerability. The final issue, a low-risk problem, elicited no payment.

For more on this story, see Google fixes Chrome holes, seeks security reform on CNET News.

PC Zone magazine, the sometimes anarchic and irreverent monthly journal, is set to close after 225 issues on 2 September 2010.

Future Publishing, which owns the title, said the closure comes in the wake of a strategic review of its PC games portfolio

At its last audit, PC Zone was only selling about 11,000 copies a month.

The magazine started life in a rather dank and dusty basement in Central London.

It rose from the ashes of Zero, a monthly multi-format games magazine that, like PC Zone, was full of off-beat humour, adolescent jokes and, on occasion, courted controversy.

Zero closed down on October 1992. However, most of the staff were retained and formed the core staff of the new, single-format magazine, PC Zone.

The concept of PC gaming was a new one in the early 1990s. Games had traditionally been published on dedicated game consoles, such as the the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), along with the legacy generation of micro-computers.

Renegade PR's Tim Ponting, who published the magazine from its first issue untill late 2002, told BBC News that publishing it was perceived as 'madness' by many.

"At the time, the received wisdom was that no one would buy it," he said.

"But, it was a huge success, and the humour followed the legacy left by Zero magazine. It was public schoolboy, very clever, holier-than-though, but it worked," he added.

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By Daniel Emery  BBC Technology reporter

Firefox 4 Beta 1 is available on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, but only the Windows version has undergone a graphical change, where the tabs are placed along the top.

So performance, security and stability upgrades are all self-explanatory, but why the design change?

"Recently modern browsers have been transitioning to placing tabs on top, and that decision isn't arbitrary, it isn't about fashion.  The change to placing tabs on top isn't about one browser versus another browser, it's about the evolution of the Web as a platform," Mozilla User Experience designer Alex Faaborg recently said.

See presentation of new Firefox 4 Beta 1

By Tim Conneally, http://www.betanews.com/article/Mozilla-releases-Beta-1-of-new-visually-overhauled-Firefox-4-browser/1278457560

According to Microsoft, self-help online support (such as Microsoft online Knowledge Base articles, FAQs, troubleshooting tools, and other resources) will be available for at least a year longer. But paid support, support assistance, and security updates will be discontinued on July 13.

If you're using Windows 2000, you'll need to migrate to a more recent version of Windows -- or live with the lack of support from Microsoft. Microsoft has a Windows 2000 End-of-Support Center with advice on migrating to Windows 7 (for desktops) or Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (for servers).

If you're using Windows XP SP2 or earlier, there's a free and easy way to continue to get Microsoft support: Simply upgrade to SP3, which you can do via Internet Explorer's Windows Update utility. Or use the end-of-support date as the incentive to migrate to Windows 7, which many businesses are now doing.

Note that if you're using Windows Vista with no service packs installed, Microsoft support ended on April 13, but you can upgrade for free to SP2 for continued support.

This article, "Microsoft to end support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 on July 13," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com.

In addition, the 2010 updates to Visio and Project are now available to businesses, the software maker said in its announcement on Wednesday.

The new features of Office 2010 include easier embedding of video and audio in PowerPoint presentations, the embedding of relevancy links in OneNote notes, a new menu structure in Word and new formatting options in Excel. Documents can also be saved directly into SharePoint or online sharing services such as Skydrive.

People will want to upgrade from previous versions of Microsoft's suite because the new version provides "an even better and more productive experience across the PC, browser and mobile phone", said Jeff Teper, the head of Microsoft's Office Business Platform group.

"There's just a whole host of everything from the new presentation features in PowerPoint to the Outlook Social Connector that brings your email and social connections together," Teper told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. "SharePoint brings a whole host of new capabilities for business intelligence, content management and social networking that really light up best with Office 2010."

About 8.5 million people and organisations have downloaded the beta version of Office 2010, according to Microsoft.

Teper noted that a new version of Office applications will be coming out for Windows Phone 7 handsets. "Probably the most exciting new feature, there is a version of SharePoint Workspace that runs on those phones, so you can synchronise your documents to that phone," he said.

Asked about Google's recent suggestion to Office customers that they should upgrade to a hybrid of Google Apps and Office tools, Teper dismissed the pitch.

"Google tried to tell people six months ago that they didn't need Office at all, and they backed away because that failed," Teper said. "What we've heard from customers is that they want a consistent experience on the PC and the web. They value their security and privacy. Google have backpedalled from something that wasn't working to a hodgepodge."

One of the key new features of Office 2010 is its coordination with a new suite of free Office web applications. ZDNet UK asked Teper whether he thought Office web apps might one day supersede their desktop client counterparts, but he said this was unlikely to happen.

"I think [web apps will] be more important, but I don't think they'll supersede," he said. "We've offered Outlook [as a web app] for 10 years. Customers have had their choice and most customers use a combination [of online and offline clients]. People still get excited about the full version of Outlook, mostly because it helps them run their email more effectively."

Teper took another swipe at Google on the issue of connectivity being necessary for the functioning of an application. "They're trying to tell people they don't need offline cached access, which is just not credible," he said. "People like high-performance local access to their email."

By David Meyer, ZDNet UK

Nokia and Microsoft, at one time fierce rivals in the mobile telecommunications business, announced the alliance in August 2009. They expect to offer Nokia phones running Microsoft's Office programs later this year.

On Wednesday the companies unveiled Communicator Mobile software, which enables people to see their colleagues' availability, and click to communicate with them using instant messenger, e-mail, text or phone call.

The names and status of colleagues are embedded directly in the devices' contacts application. Owners of Nokia E52 and E72 models can download it as of today from Nokia's Ovi Store.

Google search result pages will be more colourful as Google formally introduces a redesign it has been testing for several years. The web giant has been actively testing the design with users for several months, and testing for this particular revision dates back even further, said John Wiley, senior user experience designer for Google. The changes will appear on a rolling basis to most users over the course of Wednesday, Wiley said, but could take longer for some users of Google search in languages other than English.

With the new look, Google is emphasising the menu of search options that had previously been hidden on the left-side rail of the search results pages. First unveiled in May 2009, search options required a searcher to click on a 'show options' link at the top of the page. Now they will be permanently affixed to the left rail, and Google will surface different search options based on whether they are relevant to the query, Wiley said.

For more on this story, see Google gives search results pages a makeover on CNET News.

The 3.5-inch floppy was a ubiquitous and necessary component for storing and transferring files between personal computers for nearly three decades. Sony pioneered the 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981, eventually replacing the 5.25-inch floppy disk that had previously been the popular storage format. The company controls nearly 70 percent of the floppy-disk market.

However, as the size of files and programs grew, the floppy disk was pushed aside by inexpensive and larger-format storage medium. Thanks to the creation of storage methods such as CDs, DVDs, Zip and USB drives, Sony saw its Japanese sales of floppies decline from a record 47 million disks in fiscal 2002 to 12 million in fiscal 2009.

For more on this story, see Sony delivers floppy disk's last rites on CNET News.