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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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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
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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Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up to give web developers ... |
5 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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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
12:18 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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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
09:30 GMT |
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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
10:02 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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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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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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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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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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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
07:14 GMT |
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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
04:50 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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Microsoft recently released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 and, since we're talking about one of the most popular browsers on the web, lots of people downloaded, installed and tested it. However, some of them may encounter unexpected problems because IE8 doesn't support several important web services... |
11 April 2008
03:42 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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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
04:17 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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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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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 down to business users. The con... |
31 March 2008
15:14 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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Mozilla is currently making headway with the development of Firefox 3.0, having released the fourth beta development milestone at the beginning of March and pressing on for the delivery of Beta 5 by the end of this month. Version 3.0 of the open source browser is set to be ready for general adoption, and will be made... |
28 March 2008
15:22 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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While Microsoft is completely mute on the automatic delivery of Safari 3.1 via Apple Software Update even to the Windows users that do not have the Mac OS X native browser installed, Mozilla Chief Executive Officer John Lilly said that the practice was "wrong." Lilly came out with an update following the original cri... |
24 March 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Next time you execute Apple Software Update or when the tool launches itself, be sure to pay extra attention to the item offered for download. They might not all be updates. In fact, you might end up with Safari 3.1 on your computer without even knowing how. This because of the subtle and deceptive way that Apple has... |
21 March 2008
10:46 GMT |
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The final version of Firefox 3.0 is planned for general availability in June 2008. The successor of Firefox 2.0, which was dropped all the way back in October 2006, almost concomitantly with Internet Explorer 7, was initially planned for delivery at the end of 2007. Due to quality concerns, the development process of... |
21 March 2008
10:08 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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