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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is yet another step closer to the next iteration of IE for Microsoft. Made available for download on August 27, only to start being served to Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 machines featuring Beta 1 the subsequent day, IE8 Beta 2 is making its way at fast pace towards a reported final d... |
29 August 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is making available for download one copy of Windows Vista RTM and three copies of Windows XP (one with Service Pack 2 and two with Service Pack 3) for free. In this context, the free downloads continue a tradition started back in 2007 by the Redmond company. Made available on August 28, 2008, the bits that... |
29 August 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 became available for download starting with August 27, 2008. As its precursor, Beta 1, the Beta 2 Build is tailored to a range of operating systems including Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Vista RTM and SP1, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Sever 2008. Microsoft already informed that users ... |
29 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out and about in English, Chinese Simplified, German and Japanese, since August 27, 2008. The second milestone of the successor of IE7 is designed to integrate with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. However, upgrading from IE8 Beta 1 to Beta 2 is not... |
28 August 2008
10:05 GMT |
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The wait is over. At almost six months since the introduction of Internet Explorer Beta 1 in early March at MIX08, Microsoft unveiled the second Beta for the next iteration of its proprietary browser. In this context, the Redmond company lived up to its promise to deliver the second development milestone of IE8 by th... |
28 August 2008
02:55 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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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is just around the corner. There are, at this point in time, just five days until the end of August 2008, and the delivery deadline for the second Beta release of IE8 is approaching at fact pace. But even with Microsoft gearing up to take IE8 Beta 2 out of the Redmond ovens, with baking tim... |
26 August 2008
07:27 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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On August 1, 2008, Microsoft introduced an update to the Deep Zoom Composer solution designed to permit users to take advantage of the Deep Zoom features of Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2. Just a few days later, the Redmond company made available for download a new Deep Zoom Composer update in an effort to deal with a few is... |
6 August 2008
07:18 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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The start of August has brought along with it an update to the Deep Zoom Composer. According to Microsoft, the new version of the Deep Zoom Composer serves to resolve stability issues, to kick quality up a notch by delivering bug fixes and enhanced performance. Additionally, the new iteration of the solution delivers... |
4 August 2008
05:33 GMT |
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With the explosion that was Firefox 3.0, which climbed over the 8 million unique downloads just in the first 24 hours since the launch on June 17, heavy clouds seemed to have gathered on the horizon for Internet Explorer. But the fact of the matter is that IE has managed to survive virtually undamaged, according to s... |
1 August 2008
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Developers enlisted with Apple's iPhone Developer Program are reporting that a second build of the iPhone OS 2.1 is on the loose. Seeded just a week after the first reported firmware 2.1 beta release, the new version includes bug fixes, a previously-existing reference to a new iPod touch model, but no turn-by-tu... |
31 July 2008
04:17 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
11:20 GMT |
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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
09:46 GMT |
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The next development milestones of the upcoming versions of Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.1 Codename Shiretoko are virtually on the horizon. While Microsoft is hard at work on the successor of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has already moved onward following the release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17, 2008. In this rega... |
17 July 2008
12:46 GMT |
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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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It will still be some time before Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in is able "to power" automobiles but not the same can be said about web-based automotive experiences. In fact, the latest version of Silverlight 2.0, namely Beta 2, released during the first week of June 2008, was... |
18 June 2008
10:11 GMT |
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The final version of Firefox 3.0 doesn't play well with the first version of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer. The faulty integration between Mozilla's latest iteration of the Firefox open source browser and Silverlight 1.0 is caused by a bug which has survived all the way into Firefox 3.0. Mozilla is aw... |
17 June 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8, Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are the latest versions of web browsers from Microsoft, Opera and Mozilla, designed for the Windows operating system, finalized, in development, or even cross-platform. As of May 2008, Internet Explorer and Firefox were dividing the vast majority of the audience of the b... |
13 June 2008
06:42 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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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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Firefox 3.0 will not even trip on the approximately two million copies of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 that Microsoft revealed as having been downloaded since the browser was introduced on March 5, 2008. After Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pointed to August for the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Tony Chor, IE G... |
4 June 2008
09:49 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
03:25 GMT |
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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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Microsoft is getting to move Silverlight 2 forward with the next development milestone. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference in Orlando, that the second Beta for the plug-in would be made available to the general public by the end of this week.... |
3 June 2008
09:20 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
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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
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Microsoft's next generation Windows for Supercomputers is moving forward, making an important step since the end of 2007. With in excess of 1,000 bugs fixed, Windows HPC Server 2008 has now reached Beta 2. The previous beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 was released in November 2007, and for the latest beta, Micros... |
19 May 2008
06:20 GMT |
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While Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 are not even on the horizon, Opera has moved ahead with Beta 2. Opera 9.5 Beta 2 comes with the following builds: 9945 for Windows, 4789 for Mac and 1933 for UNIX (Linux). The build was announced as early as the past week by Adam Minchinton, Opera M... |
25 April 2008
06:08 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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Announced at the beginning of this month, Windows Installer 4.5 Beta 2 went live on Microsoft Connect as of March 21. According to the Redmond company, Windows Installer 4.5 Beta 2 is designed to bring to the table down-level packages tailored on Windows XP SP2 and SP3, as well as Windows Vista RTM and SP1, and Windo... |
27 March 2008
07:08 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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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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2008 will see a new leaf turned in the face-off between Firefox and Internet Explorer. While Microsoft did manage to kill Netscape and to keep Opera under 1% of the market, Firefox dislodged a consistent audience from the Redmond company's proprietary browser. According to data from Net Applications, in 2007 alo... |
10 January 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Do you have an immutable affinity for Mozilla's open source browser? Are you generally among the first to jump on everything that moves in Firefox land? Are you looking for a way to access early development milestones of Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.x ahead of anybody else? Then, Mozilla has the right answer to... |
21 December 2007
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While Microsoft is playing around, drawing happy yellow faces with the help of an internal build of Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla made available on December 18th, the second Beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.0 browser. Formerly codenamed Gran Paradiso, Beta 2 is a clear indication of the close proximity of Firefox 3.0�... |
20 December 2007
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The second beta of Firefox 3.0 is now available for download. In this manner, Mozilla lived up to its promise made earlier in December that it would move Firefox 3.0 out of Beta 1 stage, by December 21st. Having dropped the first Release Candidate for Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 as early as December 11th, it was clear that Mo... |
19 December 2007
07:00 GMT |
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Mozilla is taking Firefox 3.0, and Firefox 2.0 for that matter, where Microsoft will never dare venture with Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 7 is not even worth mentioning, as the Redmond company is offering end users a virtually inflexible browser. Not the same can be said of Firefox. The extensive customiza... |
17 December 2007
12:27 GMT |
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The first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 is live. While Microsoft has barely managed to confirm the fact that the next version of Internet Explorer is... (are you ready?) Internet Explorer 8 (I'll bet you didn't see that coming!!!), Mozilla is making headway with the development of Firefox 3.0. Aft... |
11 December 2007
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The second beta of the next version of Firefox 3.0 (Gran Paradiso) is coming right up. At this point in time, Mozilla has been reluctant to specify the exact release date for Firefox 3.0 Beta 2, but it has pointed out to the end of December. Tomorrow, 4th of December, the trunk will be closed for Firefox 3.0 Beta 2.... |
3 December 2007
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Mozilla continues to cook the first beta for Firefox 3.0 (Gran Paradiso). At the end of the past week, the first release candidate of Gran Paradiso Beta 1 was misinterpreted as the actual Beta of the open source browser. The flood of downloads that ensued forced Mozilla to shut down its FTP servers and to come out re... |
15 November 2007
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SharedView is essentially the evolution of Tahiti. Microsoft used the Tahiti codename in association with a collaborative technology designed to seamlessly integrate with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Service Pack 2 while leveraging the Fluent: R... |
29 October 2007
07:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated Windows Live Messenger 8.5, the version tailor fitted to integrate seamlessly with the graphic design and the user interface visuals of Windows Vista. The Redmond company's instant messaging client still comes with the 8.5 label, but it has evolved from Beta 1 to Beta 2 stage. The fresh bet... |
6 September 2007
03:17 GMT |
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Opera, considered to be the best mobile browser available, has just upgraded to its second beta version. The software will bring some additional improvements and also better support for BlackBerry users. It's not only about having better support on BlackBerry smartphones, but also on the large number of other up... |
31 August 2007
07:03 GMT |
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled Windows Home Server in early January 2007, presenting a concept that the company envisions at the core of every home network. Delivering storage, back-up, added security and remote access, Windows Home Server is a project which managed to get past the media in its early stages. ... |
25 May 2007
09:13 GMT |
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As the slow death of the pre-Wow Windows Vista variants draws near, Microsoft will begin sending out funeral invitations tomorrow. Towards the end of April 2007, Microsoft informed that, beginning with May 18, Windows Vista beta testers still running the beta 2, release candidate 1 and release candidate 2 versions of... |
17 May 2007
09:01 GMT |
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Microsoft informed of the availability of the second beta for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager since March 27, 2007. The Redmond Company has then stated that the next milestone of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 will be made available within 45 days from the initial announcement. And yesterday... |
25 April 2007
04:36 GMT |
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