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The successor of Firefox 3.0 has entered the Beta development stage as of October 14, 2008. In this context, Mozilla has made available for download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. The next iteration of the open source browser, codenamed Shiretoko, is making headway in terms of development, having already passed through a couple... |
15 October 2008
14:41 GMT |
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The first Beta build of Firefox 3.1 is just around the corner. In fact, Mozilla is hammering away at the successor of Firefox 3.0, in order to be able to release it as early as next week.Codename Shiretoko has already passed two Alpha milestones, and has at least two Betas waiting for it before it will evolve into Re... |
10 October 2008
12:48 GMT |
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With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko. The first taste of Firefox 3.1 is now available for download. Mozilla is offering the nightly trunk of Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Pre signalin... |
1 October 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of the leaked Windows 7 Milestone 3 Build 6780 details, Microsoft confirmed that the first public taste of Windows 7 is approximately a month away. Situated between the M3 Build 6780 and the first fully fledged Beta of the next iteration of the Windows client, the pre-Beta development milestone of Wi... |
25 September 2008
05:36 GMT |
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The constant wave of Windows 7 Beta chatter from Redmond, even without an official confirmation from Microsoft, is a clear indication that the company is gearing up to move the next iteration of the Windows client beyond the development milestone (M) stages. With the Windows 7 roadshow approaching at a fast pace, as ... |
11 September 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Mozilla is making headway in the development of the first Beta of Firefox 3.1. Built under the codename Shiretoko, the successor of Firefox 3.0 reached the Alpha 2 milestone at the end of the past week and became available for download. In addition to Shiretoko Beta 1, Mozilla is also cooking the Firefox 2.0.0.17 and... |
9 September 2008
11:51 GMT |
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According to Mozilla's initial plans, the first Beta of Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko was slated for availability by the end of August 2008, but this is no longer the case. Firefox 3.1 will only be released in October this year. The beta code freeze for the successor of Firefox 3.0 was moved from August to earl... |
29 August 2008
12:36 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 is not the fastest browser in the universe. This, according to IE Program Manager, Christian Stockwell, working on the performance of the browser. However, this is not to say that the Redmond company has not poured a consistent amount of efforts into boosting the performance of IE7's successo... |
27 August 2008
12:23 GMT |
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Time has almost run out for Microsoft when it comes down to delivering the second beta build of Internet Explorer 8. The Redmond company is closing in on approximately six months since it started offering IE8 Beta 1, a release which got the green light courtesy of Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, at MIX08 in ea... |
20 August 2008
11:48 GMT |
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Whatever you do, do not touch the latest version of Internet Explorer 7.0 when the download is advertised via unsolicited emails. According to security company Lavasoft, a wave of spammed emails is inciting recipients with the perspective of installing the latest release of IE7. This is, of course, not the case. Firs... |
14 August 2008
12:35 GMT |
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The first Beta build of Internet Explorer 8 was made available for download at the start of March 2008, with bits going live following the MIX08 keynote address by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager. With Beta 2 cooking, as the baking time will run out by the end of this month, the Redmond giant continues t... |
13 August 2008
06:13 GMT |
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Mozilla is making forays into the future of Firefox and the Web, but at the same time is cooking Shiretoko. The list of Firefox 3.1, codename Shiretoko, features is growing ahead of the Alpha 2 and Beta 1 builds that are planned to drop by the end of this month. Nothing is completely set in stone as far as the next v... |
7 August 2008
13:39 GMT |
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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 is available for download since July 28, 2008 under the codename Shiretoko, and now Mozilla is gearing up for the release of the first Beta of Firefox 3.0's successor. According to Mozilla's initial plans, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is scheduled to drop by the end of August; however, nothing is ... |
5 August 2008
03:48 GMT |
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While Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is just around the corner, Microsoft has failed to meet the exact deadline for the delivery of the second development milestone for the successor of IE7. By the end of August 2008, testers will have the pleasure of playing around with IE8 Beta 2, according to the Redmond company which... |
4 August 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is just around the corner, according to Microsoft. The Redmond company made available the initial Beta build of IE8 at the start of March 2008, a release announced by Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, at the end of his MIX08 keynote. While Beta 1 was a developer-centric Build, Beta 2 w... |
31 July 2008
03:28 GMT |
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One aspect of Windows Vista that is indisputable is the operating system's stability. But the consistent level of reliability in Vista failed to rub off on the Internet Explorer 7 default component. Having to deal with faulty add-ons and plug-ins (the most problematic of which is Adobe Flash), IE7, in turn, mana... |
30 July 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008. In this regard, Microsoft is a tad late in terms of this year's browser releases, with rivals Opera and Mozilla having already made available n... |
29 July 2008
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There is much more to Internet Explorer than meets the eye. And, apparently, Microsoft is good and ready to deliver a different perspective over itself, associated by default with the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Fact is that neither the software company nor its proprietary browser have been enjoying easy rides, wit... |
18 July 2008
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Gone are the days when end users had to spend hours in order to integrate Internet Explorer into a copy of the Windows operating system. The slipstreaming process when it comes down to Internet Explorer 8 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been simplified to a maximum. Now, putting together a singular image by usin... |
4 July 2008
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Microsoft is stepping up its game when it comes down to Internet Explorer 8, signaling that the release of the next development milestone of the browser is getting closer and closer. IE8 Beta 2 will be made available next month, in August 2008, with the build advertised as a consumer-oriented release. While Beta 1 dr... |
3 July 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 was a released aimed almost exclusively at web content developers and designers. It's purpose is to give a taste of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 but also to get websites designed for the previous versions of IE to be readied for the next iteration of the browser. IE8 Beta 2, pl... |
26 June 2008
11:10 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 is evolving to the next level, even though it is still in Beta stage. However, the evolution does not mark the jump from Beta 1 to Beta 2 stage, but the introduction of new capabilities along with this month's security patches for the browser. In this context, Microsoft made available the fir... |
26 June 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 cross domain capabilities are stuck, at least for the time being, with XDomainRequest. Microsoft is, of course, hard at work hammering on the Beta 2 for IE8, but also on expanding the cross domain scenarios that the browser will allow for AJAX developers. With Beta 1, Internet Explorer 8 delivers ... |
24 June 2008
06:32 GMT |
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In the first half of June 2008, when they gave a taste of the new features cooking for Internet Explorer 8 which are planned for integration starting with Beta 2, Jane Maliouta - IE Program Manager and James Pratt - IE Product Manager pointed out that IE8 would come with slipstream support by default. This is valid a... |
23 June 2008
04:00 GMT |
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After Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was right on track for delivery in August 2007, the IE team started opening up on the next development milestone of the browser. Jane Maliouta - IE Program Manager and James Pratt - IE Product Manager gave an excellent insight on a set of fe... |
12 June 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Even though Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available only as a development milestone, Microsoft went ahead and released a security update for the browser. On June 10, 2008, the MS08-031: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer Security Bulletin became available via Windows Update, patching two vulnerabilities... |
12 June 2008
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Microsoft has thrown Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 deep into tree hugging mode, along with its predecessor, Internet Explorer 7, on the Carbon Grove website. So deep in fact, that the Redmond company is willing to put its money where the carbon reduction promises of its two browsers are. With the second Beta for IE8 in ... |
10 June 2008
05:04 GMT |
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While Firefox 3.0 is so close you can actually taste it, the wait is not yet over. Sure enough, the pre-release versions of the next iteration of the open source browser are up for grabs, and, especially as of Release Candidate 2 will provide a product almost identical to the final version. Still, in order to sweeten... |
9 June 2008
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available for download for Windows and Mac OS X. The Redmond company's cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in positioned as an equivalent of Adobe Flash, evolved to Beta 2 stage along with a range of solutions. In this respect, Microsoft is now offering not only Silve... |
9 June 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is getting closer and closer to the first public Beta finish line, but is not quite there yet. Microsoft failed to reveal the deadline for the delivery of Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, and only pointed to early June for availability. Well, the public beta program for Power Pac... |
5 June 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 was the stage where Chairman Bill Gates announced that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 would be made available for the general public in August. As Beta 1 was a build focused almost exclusively on web content developers and designers, the Redmond giant indicated from early March that Beta 2 would be... |
4 June 2008
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is approximately a couple of months away. IE8 Beta 2 will be made available for download in August 2008, and will take Microsoft's ... |
3 June 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Having multiple versions of Internet Explorer installed in parallel and running concomitantly on the same Windows operating system is not a scenario supported by Microsoft. It's just one flavor of IE at a time, as far as the Redmond giant is concerned, and while this might bide well with end users who are encour... |
2 June 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Just like Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 8 is in danger of becoming a transition product, instead of the browser that will win back the hearts and minds of users to a new face of IE. Microsoft, through the voices of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Bill Gates, Micr... |
29 May 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 is nearing its next public development milestone at fast pace. Following the general availability of IE8 Beta 1 starting on March 5, 2008, the first day of MIX 2008, Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, indicated the summer of this year as a potential release date for the next beta build. Now, N... |
26 May 2008
12:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is consistent down to perfection in avoiding to reveal any details related to the evolution of Internet Explorer 8. The successor of IE7, which debuted into its first public testing phase at the start of March at MIX08, is built under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Win... |
22 May 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Simply because of the ubiquity of its predecessors, Internet Explorer 8 will continue to come under fire. With one of the preferred avenues for attacks continuing to serve as a source of malware even in the next iteration of Microsoft's proprietary browser, ActiveX add-ons are a traditional vector of attacks on ... |
21 May 2008
13:39 GMT |
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Both Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 in its current phase of development, namely Beta 1, are vulnerable to a critical zero-day security flaw with proof-of-concept code available in the wild. The Cross-Zone Scripting vulnerability in the browser's "Print Table of Links" feature was discovered by indep... |
21 May 2008
08:49 GMT |
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With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft is taking its proprietary IE browser into the territory of HTML 5.0. Not at the same level as Safari 3 or Firefox 3.0/3.1, but the Redmond company will offer support for HTML 5.0, limited as it may be. One illustrative example of HTML 5.0 integration into Internet Explorer 8 is cro... |
20 May 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Security researcher Aviv Raff has released an example of attack code for Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 in the wild. According to Raff Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is vulnerable to exploits targeting a Cross-Zone Scripting security flaw that affects the "Print Table of Links" feature... |
16 May 2008
07:32 GMT |
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It is just a little over two months since the first public testing milestone for Internet Explorer was made available outside of Redmond, and a critical 0-day security vulnerability impacting the browser has already been released in the wild. Security researcher Aviv Raff has tucked away an exploit somewhere on his b... |
9 May 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Back at the beginning of March, Microsoft released the first public Beta of its next iteration of Internet Explorer, namely IE8 Beta 1. Designed to deliver an evolution in comparison with IE7, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 brings to the table a range of improvements, including security enhancements. In this regard, some... |
8 May 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 gets no love from Microsoft. The first taste of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 certainly still has a long way to go, and the Redmond company offers proof in this context. Now in the most early stages of the cooking process, IE8 Beta 1 is yet to be on par with its predecessor in terms ... |
15 April 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 has been in cooking stage since 2007, but end users and developers have gotten the first taste of the next iteration of the browser as of March 5, 2008, the opening day of Microsoft's Internet-centric MIX08 conference. A developer-centered release, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is focused on web... |
11 April 2008
06:15 GMT |
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By the looks of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, the next version of IE is going to bring to the table a consistent evolution in comparison to IE7. One aspect of the browser that can and does do with a tad of tweaking is the search engine provider in the field nailed in the upper right-hand side corner. The search box was... |
10 April 2008
10:38 GMT |
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Marking an evolution in terms of security in contrast to its predecessor, Internet Explorer 8, even as early as the first beta, is set up with the "enable memory protection to help mitigate online attacks" option on by default. Memory protections refers to Data Execution Prevention (DEP) or No-Execute (NX) and, accor... |
9 April 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 was made available for download, via a release aimed at developers, on March 5, 2008, the opening day of Microsoft's Internet-centric conference MIX08. The Redmond company is making headway to the release of Beta 2 for its next iteration of the IE browser, and has announced the availab... |
8 April 2008
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There is very good reason why Microsoft has not announced the availability date of Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its Internet Explorer proprietary browser. And it is connected with the fact that Microsoft has absolutely no clue when it will wrap up with the successor of Internet Explorer 7. The first Beta ... |
3 April 2008
15:06 GMT |
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This March, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 got its first taste of Mozilla's Firefox 3.0. The Redmond company made available the first development build of Internet Explorer 8, namely Beta 1 on March 5, 2008. IE8 Beta 1 was announced by Dean Hachamovitch, Internet Explorer General Manager, during his keynot... |
1 April 2008
12:06 GMT |
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From the makers of the "Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed" we now have yet another piece of video that delivers a deep insight into what goes on behind the closed doors over at the Redmond campus. This time around, the focus is on the effects caused by the introduction of Silverlight technology. Microsoft delive... |
1 April 2008
07:36 GMT |
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