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| STORIES ABOUT: IE8 |
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| The Architects of Internet Explorer 8 in Images |  | 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, with barrages of criticisms becoming a constant. So much so that all advances that IE brings, and all efforts poured i ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Soon: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 – Firefox 3.1 Codename Shiretoko Alpha 1 |  | 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 regard, the Redmond company is cooking the second beta for IE8, currently planned for availability in August, while Mozilla is ju ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2008, 12:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Takes AJAX Navigation to the Next Level |  | One of the aspects of Internet Explorer that evolved with the introduction of IE 8 Beta 1 is related to AJAX navigation. This is because of Microsoft's commitment to aligning IE with the latest versions of modern web standards. In this context, in its default standards rendering mode, IE8, even as early as Beta 1, a release dating back to March 5, 2008, concomitantly with the opening day of MIX08, delivers support for some p ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Slipstream IE8 Beta 1 into Vista SP1 Video |  | 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 using Vista SP1 and IE8 is a streamlined task which takes only a few minutes. The end result will deliver a Vista SP1 i ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 12:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Forget Opera 9.5 - Opera 9.51 Final Available for Download |  | Forget about Opera 9.5, Opera 9.51 Final is now available for download. At the start of July, Opera dropped Release Candidate 3 for Opera 9.5 and indicated that it was moving to the RC4 development milestone ahead of finalizing the first update for version 9 ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Parades Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Features |  | 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-orie ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| It's Simple, IE8 User Experience Needs to Top Firefox 3.0 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Beta 1 Update for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Available |  | 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 first update for Internet Explorer 8 through Windows Update. Terry McCoy, Program Manager Internet Explorer Security r ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 Cross Domain Capabilities Are Stuck |  | 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 Xd ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Parades IE8 Beta 2 Features |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 12:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Security Update for IE8 Beta 1 on Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Adds Emulate IE7 |  | 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 in IE5, 6, and 7 on various Window operating systems. At the same time, the Redmond company patched the HTML Objec ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 09:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Parades Firefox 3.0 Features |  | 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 the wait, Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s User Experience Lead, put together a screencast of Firefox 3.0, parading some o ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2008, 10:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 2 Million IE8 Beta 1 vs. Firefox 3.0 |  | 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 &l ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Promises Great New Features for IE8 Beta 2, but Disappoints |  | 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 a consumer-oriented release. In this context, Tony Chor, IE Group Program Manager promised that Internet Explorer ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 Drops this August |  | 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 next iteration of the IE browser one step closer to the general release. Gates' announcement is the first clear ind ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 3.0 to Drop on a Bleeding Internet Explorer |  | 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 Explorer users, with the existing IE7 managing to do little to help stop the erosion of Microsoft's share of the browser mark ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 11:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IETester - IE8 Beta 1, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 All into One |  | 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 encouraged to tap the benefits of the latest Internet Explorer iteration, the same cannot be said for developers and desi ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Just Like Vista, IE8 Is in Danger of Being a Transition Product |  | 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, ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Confirms IE8 Beta 2 for the Third Quarter of 2008 |  | 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 p ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 12:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Mute on IE8's Evolution |  | 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 St ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rogue Security Solutions Take a Bite out of IE8 Beta 1 |  | 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 the Windows platform via IE, and Microsoft has worked to bulletproof ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 13:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BitDefender Offers Protection From IE8 Beta 1 Critical Zero-Day |  | 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 Tab ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 HTML 5.0 Mashups |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Beta 1 Attack Code Available in the Wild |  | 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. Under no ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 07:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 Critical Zero-Day Security Vulnerability Released in the Wild |  | 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 blog and is ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ActiveX Security |  | 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 impr ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Official Windows 7 Details Slip Through Microsoft's Fingers |  | There is no doubt that Microsoft has a tight grip on the next iteration of the Windows platform, but at the same time the Redmond giant manages to constantly let details slip through its fingers. While the company has only confirmed a development timetable scoped three years after the general availability (January 31) of Windows Vista, along with offering a quick look at MinWin, and promising to continue delivering both 32-bit an ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Gets No Love from Microsoft |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Beta 2 Will Fix What's Wrong with Beta 1 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Ultimate Search Engine(s) for Internet Explorer 8 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 10:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: We Have Not Committed to a Release Date for IE8 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Beta 1 vs. Firefox Beta 4 |  | 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 keynote address at MIX08 in Las Vegas. A few days later, Mozilla dropped Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and announced that it was ste ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE8 Beta 1 and IE7 Tips and Tricks |  | 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 with is the main reason why content developers have to adapt their materials to both Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explore ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 2.0 Is Ripping IE to Shreds, Preparing the Way for Firefox 3.0 |  | Firefox 2.0 is ripping Internet Explorer to shreds, preparing the way for Firefox 3.0. In the Enterprise Desktop And Web 2.0/SaaS Platform Trends, 2007, Forrester Research analysts indicate that Firefox has experienced a strong growth on the browser market, but especially when it comes dow ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 15:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 FAQ |  | 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 content developers by marking a consistent leap in terms of standards support. But undoubtedly there are a variety of questions ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 12:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Breed of Threats Cooking for IE8 and Firefox 3.0 |  | 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 company Sophos warned that users would become exposed to new risks. This because the new features, introduced by HTML 5 [ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 Drops Next Week |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 13:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Safari 3.1 Beats Firefox 3 and IE8 to the Market |  | 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 he ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 – Breaking the Web |  | 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 David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow revealed in an analysis that although the standards-oriented IE8 is a we ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 14:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Says Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 Leaves IE7 in the Dust, No Word on IE8 |  | 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 IE ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 13:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New IE8 User Experience, Poor Only Until Beta 2 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Evolution of the Address Bar in IE8 Beta 1 |  | 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 lost functionality. And as the browser is in beta phase, the alterations impacting string search, Inline Autocomplete, click ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 09:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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