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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
03:07 GMT |
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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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With approximately 80% of the browser market focused on iterations of Internet Explorer, web content is tailored by default on Microsoft's proprietary browser, even in the detriment of rival products such as Firefox or Opera. The intimate connection between browsers and the operating systems they are associated ... |
1 April 2008
05:58 GMT |
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At the beginning of this month, specifically on March 5, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Internet Explorer, launched the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. Hachamovitch emphasized from the get-go that the build was addressed not so much at the general public as at web co... |
31 March 2008
12:43 GMT |
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The next versions of the open source Firefox and the proprietary Internet Explorer browsers are set to bring to the table support for new web standards, with part of the focus being grabbed by HTML 5. Both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0 will be designed to play well with HTML 5, and in this context, security com... |
24 March 2008
13:56 GMT |
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The latest move on the Firefox 3.0 front came from Mozilla following the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, the 12th developer milestone in the building process of the next iteration of the open source browser, was served on March 10, with Mozilla pointing out that the upcoming Beta will be de... |
19 March 2008
13:12 GMT |
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With Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft indicated a strong commitment to delivering support for web standards. In this context, instead making the default rendering mode of the next IE iteration synonymous with that of IE7 as was initially planned, the Redmond company made a move designed to emphasize its focus on interop... |
19 March 2008
11:45 GMT |
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Safari 3.1 managed to beat both Firefox 3.0 and Internet Explorer 8 to the market. The alien Windows browser, thrown on the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows XP after it was migrated out of the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard heaven, was finalized ahead of its rivals and released for download. At the same... |
19 March 2008
08:54 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8, the successor of Internet Explorer 7, and the next iteration of the Microsoft's proprietary line of browsers is right on track to breaking the web. This because of the Redmond company's decision to support web standards by default with IE8. Ray Valdes, Gartner Research Director, and Dav... |
18 March 2008
14:42 GMT |
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Mozilla tested Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 in terms of memory usage and the conclusion favors the last iteration of the open source browser over its predecessor, but also over the proprietary Microsoft product. The Redmond company, following the release of IE7, acknowledged the existence o... |
17 March 2008
13:16 GMT |
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Just in case you were holding your breath for some big changes in the graphical user interface of Internet Explorer 8, it is right about time to exhale. Already behind Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 in terms of the development process, Microsoft plans nothing spectacular for the IE8 GUI. The first taste of Internet Explo... |
14 March 2008
08:21 GMT |
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It is the purpose of every piece of great software to deliver a top user experience and Internet Explorer 8 makes no exception to this rule. But so far, with the freshly released build of IE8 Beta 1, user experience is the last aspect of the browser that Microsoft seems to have focused on. Of course, the evolution fr... |
13 March 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Moving forward from IE7 to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, the evolution of Microsoft's proprietary browser is not focused exclusively under the hood, with some of the changes reverberating to the surface. The new Address Bar in IE8 Beta 1 comes to the table with both overhauled features and capabilities, as well as... |
12 March 2008
09:17 GMT |
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While moving from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8, the Beta 1 release of the browser made available last week, for the general public, features an almost exclusive under-the-hood evolution. With just a small part of the changes reverberating to the surface, end users are last in line to get a dedicated rel... |
11 March 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Starting the past week, Microsoft made available for download the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 (download here). The MIX08 release was preceded by a private Beta of the next iteration of Internet Explorer, and while Microsoft did emphasize that Beta 1 is a build aimed at developers, access is in no way res... |
10 March 2008
13:15 GMT |
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After over a year since the release of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 in October 2006, and then along with Windows Vista in November 2006 and January 2007, Microsoft has delivered the first beta of its next iteration of Internet Explorer. IE8 Beta 1 is a release aimed at web content de... |
10 March 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software. And with the exception of pirated copies of the Window operating system there is no assoc... |
8 March 2008
08:21 GMT |
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In case you live under a rock, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is now available as a public download. Via Internet Explorer 8, designed as the successor of IE7, released all the way back in October 2006 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista, Microsoft is finally offering the first taste of the next iteration of Internet Ex... |
7 March 2008
12:19 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is the first taste of the next iteration of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Delivered to the general public following the MIX08 presentation of Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Internet Explorer, IE8 Beta 1 is available for download for a variety of flavors of Windows. According to th... |
7 March 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Starting on March 5, 2008, Microsoft made available for download the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8. Two of the new features highlighted by Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Internet Explorer, during his keynote address at MIX08 in Las Vegas, were Activities and WebSlices. Giving that Hachamovitch's p... |
7 March 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Is Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 all that Microsoft claims it is? The first public testing milestone of IE8 went live on March 5, 2008, following the keynote address from Dean Hachamovich, IE General Manager. Hachamovich introduced what is essentially a browser aimed at web content developers and designers, but not so m... |
6 March 2008
10:24 GMT |
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At its web-centric conference in Las Vegas - MIX08, Microsoft unveiled Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Along with the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie, and Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, at this year's MIX, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Di... |
6 March 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 does not install on pre-release versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. According to Microsoft, IE8 plays well only with a handful of Windows operating systems. And just Windows. At this point in time, the Redmond company has showed no indication of plans to make IE8 cross-platform, which... |
6 March 2008
05:52 GMT |
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I had a chance to ask Håkon Wium Lie, Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, a few questions about the recent Microsoft commitment to supporting Web standards with Internet Explorer 8, about the antitrust complaint filed with the EU Commission and what are the next steps the Redmond company needs to take with IE... |
6 March 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, unveiled IE8 Beta 1 during his keynote address at MIX08. This was the first time that Internet Explorer 8 was presented to the public. Hachamovitch presented a total of eight features of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. The first step focused on added CSS 2.1 support. According to Ha... |
5 March 2008
13:30 GMT |
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The first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 is alive and kicking. Get IE8 Beta 1 right here on Softpedia. Well, you have been waiting for it for more than a year. Microsoft has successfully kept the lid closed on the work it was doing with Internet Explorer 8, more so than on the work poured into Windows Vista SP1, ... |
5 March 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Ask not what Internet Explorer 8 will do for you, but what you can, and will have to do for Internet Explorer 8. This because IE8 will not be tailored to the existing Internet. Not even by a long shot. In fact, just the opposite, Microsoft expects the entire world wide web to adapt to Internet Explorer 8. In the maki... |
4 March 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1. And yes, I did integrate the Beta 1 reference as a way to indicate that, at this stage in the development of the browser, anything beyond reasonable expectations won't be met. At least not when it comes do... |
3 March 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Yes, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is out and about. Microsoft has officially confirmed that the testers have already begun joining the limited technical beta program for IE8 Beta 1. The Redmond company started sending out invitations the past week, and the first beta of the next iteration of Internet Explorer is alread... |
29 February 2008
12:55 GMT |
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After spending in excess of a year cooking, Internet Explorer 8 is, finally, almost here. Microsoft has already started shipping the bits for the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8. For the time being, IE8 Beta 1 is available exclusively to a pre-selected pool of testers. The private beta is well under way wit... |
28 February 2008
12:45 GMT |
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As Microsoft has just started serving the first bits of Internet Explorer Beta 1, Mozilla is making headway with the development of the fourth Beta for Firefox 3.0. Having dropped the invitations for the private testing program of IE8 Beta 1 last week, the Redmond company began shipping the browser, and you will be a... |
28 February 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Welcome to Windows Internet Explorer 8. This is the message displayed initially by the installer for the next iteration of Microsoft's proprietary browser, as you can very well see from the screenshot accompanying this article. Just an anodyne proof that Internet Explorer Beta 1 is now live. At the end of the pa... |
27 February 2008
06:09 GMT |
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After more than a year of dogfooding Internet Explorer 8, while at the same time keeping the lid shut tight on any details about the successor of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft started talking the next iteration of its proprietary browser in December 2007. First, there was the hilarious confirmation of an aspect that... |
26 February 2008
12:47 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 will be synonymous with the first build of the browser available outside of Microsoft. The Redmond company has been dogfooding early pre-alpha and alpha builds of IE8 throughout 2007, and it looks like the successor of Internet Explorer 7 has hit the Beta 1 milestone. At the end of the past... |
25 February 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is nothing more than a simple spectator at Mozilla's Firefox spectacle of releases. A new version of the open source browser is now available for download. Mozilla has delivered Firefox 2.0.0.10, a stability update announced as early as last week. Firefox 2.0.0.10 can be grabbed immediately via this li... |
27 November 2007
02:55 GMT |
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While Microsoft has completely gagged every last detail related to the building of Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla - due to the open source development model - is pumping a new build of Firefox 3.0 on a weekly basis. Firefox 3.0 currently codenamed Gran Paradiso has finally moved out of Alpha stage. For the past couple ... |
20 November 2007
02:33 GMT |
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Mozilla came out to set the record straight following claims that Firefox 3.0 would ship with some 80% of bugs still unresolved. A scenario where the successor of Firefox 2.0 would be released with the vast majority of the problems that plague it still not attended to was denied by both engineer Asa Dotzler and Mike ... |
19 November 2007
04:14 GMT |
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