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With the advent of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft changed its browser development strategy, embracing modern web standards, as long as they were complete, a move that explains the lack of support for HTML 5 for example. SuperPreview is a tool designed to support website development in accordance with web standards, f... |
16 September 2009
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Microsoft continues to offer free copies of its Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems for download, in a tradition that started approximately a couple of years back. Earlier this week, the Redmond company has updated the range of offerings that provide users with free copies of the two supported Windows clie... |
28 August 2009
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As an integral part of this month's release of security bulletins, Microsoft has made available the IE Cumulative Security Update for June 2009 through its Windows Update or Microsoft Update distribution channels. The cumulative refresh for Internet Explorer contains patches for no less than eight vulnerabilitie... |
10 June 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8, the Release Candidate of IE8 to be exact, produced the highest score in a comparison performed by NSS Labs, which threw it against IE7, Google Chrome 1.0.154, Apple Safari 3, Mozilla Firefox 3.07 and Opera 9.64. The tests were designed to reveal which browser offered the highest level of protecti... |
24 March 2009
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Web developers have constantly had to fight the limitations associated with the intimate integration between Internet Explorer and Windows 7 when it comes to testing scenarios. While competitive browsers allow different versions to be installed and run side by side, the same is not valid for Internet Explorer. In fac... |
18 March 2009
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Come February 10, 2009, Microsoft will issue patches designed to resolve security vulnerabilities affecting a range of its software products, including Internet Explorer, Exchange Server, the data platform, and Visio. A total of four security bulletins will be offered, plugging a yet unknown number of holes. Microsof... |
6 February 2009
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On December 17, 2008, Microsoft released in excess of 300 distinct updates for all supported versions of Internet Explorer, packaged as MS08-078, in its rush to patch a critical vulnerability in the systems, which was under attack at least as early as December 9. Not only was the security flaw actively exploited in t... |
19 December 2008
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Expanding the concept of user protection beyond the traditional meaning associated with browser security, Microsoft warned that surfing adult content websites with Internet Explorer could expose users to attacks involving exploits of a yet unpatched vulnerability in all supported versions of IE, including IE8 Beta 2.... |
16 December 2008
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A series of tests designed to measure the level of password security for browsers produced results indicative of the actual insecurity delivered by Internet Explorer 7, Google Chrome 1.0, Opera 9.62, Firefox 3.0.4 and Safari 3.2. Chapin Information Services has thrown all browsers against a set of 21 tests, and none&... |
15 December 2008
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Having taken Chrome out of Beta the past week, Google is ready to start lending a helping hand when it comes down to browser security. Thus, while Microsoft has made available a variety of tools designed to bulletproof web content and applications against attacks, including UrlScan, Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for... |
15 December 2008
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Internet Explore 8 Beta 2, the latest developmental milestone of the next iteration of Microsoft's proprietary browser, is safe from the Critical vulnerabilities impacting its precursors, which the company patched on December 9. In this context, the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-073 (Critical) does not delive... |
10 December 2008
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One aspect marked by the evolution from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 is the boost in the level of concurrent connections permitted by Microsoft's proprietary browser. The Redmond company simply increased the performance of Internet Explorer when it comes down to handling connections involving HTTP ... |
10 October 2008
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Even with Internet Explorer 8 in the oven, and Beta 2 available for download since the end of August 2008, Microsoft is not losing focus of IE7. As of September 10, the Redmond company started offering a fix for a memory leak affecting Internet Explorer 7 while running on Windows XP, including Service Pack2 and SP3, ... |
12 September 2008
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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
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The first security and stability update for Firefox 3.0 is planned to drop one day short of a month since the general availability of the latest iteration of the open source browser. Mozilla will make available Firefox 3.0.1 tomorrow, July 16, 2008, taking Firefox 3.0 one step further on its evolution. The delivery d... |
15 July 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Whether you believe in ghosts or not is irrelevant from a browser point of view. The matter is that you'd better start believing because Microsoft's browsers allow "ghosts" to take more than a peek over your shoulder, in fact, it permits them to see and register every move associated with the browsing proce... |
2 July 2008
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June 2008 will go down in history as the month of Firefox 3.0, this despite the fact that Opera 9.5 was also dropped the past month. But while the presence of Opera 9.5 was felt only superficially, and with the Internet Explorer giant lying dormant, Firefox 3.0 reaped the browser market to shades leaving rivals in th... |
1 July 2008
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Windows users are at a juncture in terms of operating system choices at this point in time, caught between Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7. Well, choosing Windows 7 is still selecting between Vista or XP, plus opting to wait at least a year and a half until Microsoft offers the next version of the Win... |
24 June 2008
11:13 GMT |
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Being the loyal adept of a business model based on proprietary software, a free operating system is not exactly something that Microsoft customers can expect from the company. But of course that there are always exceptions to confirm the rule. And the free copy of Windows Vista up for grabs via Microsoft Download is ... |
18 June 2008
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer team had nothing but love for Mozilla, especially on the day that Firefox 3.0 was unleashed. As absurd as this statement might sound, it is actually true. And the Redmond company itself offered illustrative proof of this via a memento that the IE team sent Mozilla to celebrate the l... |
18 June 2008
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New patches are available from Microsoft via Windows Update, designed to resolve security vulnerabilities in various versions of the Internet Explorer browser. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, Internet Explorer 6, and Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista are al... |
11 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
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At the intersection between search (but not limited at Live Search) and Windows Live Messenger, SearchTogether is designed to make searching the web no longer an individual task. Developed as a plug-in for Internet Explorer 7, SearchTogether's functionality enables groups of users to perform searches and to shar... |
5 June 2008
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The June 2008 Community Technology Preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2009 has been made available for download via Microsoft Connect. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is the successor of Windows XP Embedded and, in this context, it was designed to play well with both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. At the sam... |
4 June 2008
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As Internet Explorer 8 is by all means not even on the horizon, Firefox 3.0 will drop in just a few weeks and has the potential to bring even more pain to an already hurt and bleeding browser. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, the open source browser is irremediably converting Internet Explo... |
2 June 2008
11:48 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
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On its official website, Apple claims that Safari 3.0 outperforms Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9 in terms of both HTML and JavaScript performance. Of course, as a disclaimer, the Cupertino-based hardware company does state that the actual performance of the browsers depends on different factors includin... |
26 May 2008
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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
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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
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Although Microsoft claims that both Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 play well with Windows XP Service pack 3 RTM, the fact of the matter is that there are a few subtleties that cause the browsers to become permanent components of the operating system, rather than offering the uninstall option. The ... |
13 May 2008
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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
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Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack. Concomitantly with the general availability of the last service pack for XP, Microsoft dropped the first critical security update designed to patch Internet Explorer 7 running on XP SP3 RTM Build 5512... |
8 May 2008
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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
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The fact that it hasn't included Internet Explorer 7 as a default component of Windows XP SP3 has not stopped Microsoft from making available a new version of the browser as a standalone download accompanying the service pack's release. XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, ... |
8 May 2008
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Although the bundle between Microsoft's proprietary operating system and browser products seems nothing short of a match made in Redmond heaven, the fact of the matter is that the ubiquitous Windows-IE couple now experiences problems with the arrival of Service Pack 3 for XP. At this point in time, Microsoft is ... |
6 May 2008
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One error message that plagued Internet Explorer 7, but that won't make it into the final version of Internet Explorer 8 refers to "operation aborted" messages. In IE7, operation aborted errors, marked by the associated dialog box featured in the screenshot on the left, prevented users from surfing certain websi... |
24 April 2008
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With Carbon Grove, Microsoft is introducing the first Internet Explorer Beta 1 and IE7 "tree-hugging" exclusive website. The Redmond company, and specifically the Internet Explorer team, have sponsored the project built by the Jackson Fish Market, a web design company that was also involved in building Tafiti, bundli... |
23 April 2008
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Judging strictly by the sheer volume of vulnerabilities Mozilla Firefox was the most insecure browser in 2007, according to Symantec. Firefox had a total of 122 security holes, more than any other rival browser. Symantec credited the efforts poured into securing Internet Explorer 7 for IE managing to be situated unde... |
10 April 2008
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Even though the first Beta of Internet Explorer 8 was made available on March 5, 2008, the final version of the next iteration of IE is by no means anywhere on the horizon. In this context, Microsoft's focus is still set on Internet Explorer 7, as the company has revealed that it has failed to commit to a releas... |
9 April 2008
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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
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Even though the browser market is a multifaceted arena, the fact of the matter is that there are but two dominant players. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox have pretty much split the vast majority of browser users between them, with IE grabbing the lion's share and Firefox a distant ... |
11 March 2008
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Internet Explorer 6 has long been the most popular choice in terms of web browsers worldwide. IE6 was still holding the lion's share of the browser market as of August 2006 with a share of over 80%, according to data made available by Net Applications. Later that year, Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 began e... |
4 March 2008
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One of the features that Microsoft is cooking for the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is the ability of the browser to masquerade as its predecesor, Internet Explorer 7. The move is designed to permit IE8 beta 1 testers to use the browser with websites that fail to offer support for the successor of IE7. But at the same t... |
25 February 2008
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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
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The first taste of Internet Explorer 8 is now just around the corner. This year's MIX08 kickoff keynote address on March 5, 2008, will feature Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch and the first presentation of Internet Explorer 8. Designed to replace Internet Explorer 7, IE8 is planned for availab... |
20 February 2008
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Forget about Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 for a moment, because the brand-new Internet Explorer 7 is here. Essentially, the infrastructure of Internet Explorer 7, as well as its predecessor, because IE6 is also affected, will remain virtually unchanged with the exception of a small aspect. In April 2006... |
14 February 2008
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When it comes down to the face-off between Microsoft and Mozilla on the browser market it's not all about the install base, market share percentages and audience converting, but also about security. And one aspect of the security race, of course not relevant onto itself for the entire protection level delivered ... |
13 February 2008
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With Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0 in sight, Microsoft is preparing to initiate the final push for Internet Explorer 7. IE7 RTM'd at the end of 2006, just a few weeks ahead of Firefox 2.0. In October 2006, Microsoft dropped the final version of IE7 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Internet Explo... |
12 February 2008
10:14 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8, the next iteration of its proprietary browser, as well as the successor of IE7, is alive and kicking and even standards compliant. But if you are like me, then you'll need some sort of palpable proof, and a hands-on experience in order to qualify as a consistent sign ... |
5 February 2008
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Out with the old, in with the new. Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 are virtually slaughtering Internet Explorer 6. There was a time, unfortunately not too long ago, when Internet Explorer 7 ruled the world wide web. Back in October 2006, IE6 still accounted for approximately 80% of the global browser market. Octo... |
5 February 2008
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