Six months after its release, Mac OS X Leopard has gained ground and maturity and grown into a solid computing platform with enough new features to tempt Mac users to upgrade. Reports of the death of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal could be greatly exaggerated as there is still a possibility that both sides will return to the bargaining table.Despite a multitude of scripting languages, Sun officials defend the need for the company’s new JavaFX Script platform. Mozilla warns that a language pack for Firefox 2 has been infected with an adware code, affecting everybody who has downloaded the pack since Feb. 18. Yahoo will beta test in India the new Glue Pages search concept that combines text, images, and video results on a single results page.AMD kills earlier plans to release 8-core chips and will instead jump straight to a 12-core processor, code-named Magny-Cours. Software Development