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Microsoft is keen on keeping apps built on top of Internet Explorer 8 as a platform as high quality as possible. With the vast majority of add-ons now under the Redmond-based company’s control, as they are third-party built extensions, it’s only up to non-Microsoft developers to ensure that IE8 indeed get... |
10 September 2009
08:32 GMT |
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In June 2009 Microsoft calculated that the nutritious equivalent of anInternet Explorer 8 download was no less than eight meals. Now the Redmond company is saying that it considers upgrades from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 no less than twice as nutritious. In response to Feeding America kicking off the... |
28 August 2009
07:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is not yet done with the delivery of Internet Explorer 8 RTW to business users. The company started offering the gold version of IE8 via Windows Server Update Services on August 25th, 2009, as I told you yesterday. However, the will be an additional wave of downloads for WSUS admins to deal with on Septembe... |
26 August 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is pushing forward with the availability process of Internet Explorer 8, with a new wave of downloads scheduled to hit today, August 25th, 2009. The Redmond company announced since the end of June 2009 that it would start serving IE8 RTW to business users by the end of August, and the bits come right on sch... |
25 August 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is already offering extensive documentation for developers to start integrating Web Slices into their websites via MSDN, but the company has gone one step further. Devs interested in tailoring their websites for Internet Explorer 8 can now grab Web Slice tutorials from the Microsoft Download Center. The sof... |
24 August 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 bests Firefox 3, Chrome 2, Opera 10 and Safari 4 when it comes down to the effectiveness of the security features designed to protect end users against socially engineered malware and phishing. With the advent if IE8, Microsoft kicked up a notch the anti-phishing capabilities that were delivered b... |
14 August 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft will not follow in the footsteps of Mozilla, which traditionally kills off support for a certain Firefox browser within six months after the release of the succeeding iteration of the open-source browser. Instead, the Redmond company has indicated a strong commitment to keep Internet Explorer 6 alive despit... |
11 August 2009
07:07 GMT |
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An updated version of the Compatibility View List for Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7 Release is now available via the Microsoft Download Center. The Redmond company is, however, not offering just the refresh for IE8 in Windows 7, but also for its latest version of Internet Explorer running in older versions of the ... |
22 July 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Downloading and installing the latest iteration of the Skype instant messaging client will hurt performance of the gold version of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft has confirmed the issue, indicating that customers that deployed Skype 4.1 have noticed a consistent deterioration in the performance of IE8. Frank Olivier,... |
20 July 2009
09:19 GMT |
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The gold version of Internet Explorer 8, made available to the public earlier this year, is set to suffer an evolution, with the changes scheduled to roll out in August 2009. Microsoft indicated that it would not limit modifications introduced to IE8 to the versions released to web for Windows Vista Service Pack 2, S... |
17 July 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 RTW, the gold build of IE7's successor, has been successfully locked out of a Mozilla Labs project designed to highlight a selection of web development tools available. The Open Web Tools Directory from Mozilla Labs aims to be a central index of tools that have been put together in order to s... |
7 July 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Was the Internet Explorer 8 vomit video advertisement a tad hard for consumers to swallow? Did it manage to leave an unpleasant aftertaste? No matter the reason, fact is that Microsoft has pulled the commercial altogether. Fear not, it is still available in the wild, and I even managed to embed it among the videos at... |
2 July 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft insists on pushing ahead with what has become nothing short of tradition: making available for download customized versions of Internet Explorer. The company did it with Internet Explorer 7, and now it is doing the same with Internet Explorer 8. The latest custom version of IE8 RTW is associated with Live N... |
1 July 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for yet another chapter in the availability of Internet Explorer 8. In this regard, the Redmond company will release a new wave of IE8 RTW upgrades via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in just a couple of months. Affected are business customers that use WSUS in order to manage the updates... |
30 June 2009
11:19 GMT |
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Three months after the RTW of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft continues to make available releases of the browser. At the end of the past week, the company started serving five additional localized versions of IE8 with support for the following languages: Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi (India), Kannada, and Bengali (India... |
29 June 2009
05:40 GMT |
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The latest release of the Compatibility View list update for Internet Explorer 8 went live earlier this week and is now available for download. In an effort to maintain compatibility between IE8 and website developers for IE6 and IE7, Microsoft introduced the Compatibility View feature in the browser.The Redmond-base... |
26 June 2009
09:36 GMT |
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The Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 shipped with a big Emulate IE7 button next to the Home button on the Command Bar. And yet end users looking to fix IE8 compatibility issues with certain webpages failed to notice or understand the option available to them. In order to increase discoverability of the Compatibili... |
22 June 2009
08:03 GMT |
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Safari 4.0.1 is the first update shipped for the latest iteration of Apple's Mac OS X browser, which made its way to Windows starting with version 3.0. For both the 4.0.1 and the plain vanilla 4.0 flavors the Cupertino-based hardware company has included security enhancements introduced by Microsoft for Internet... |
19 June 2009
09:13 GMT |
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With the advent of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has expanded the list of ports blocked by the browser, in comparison to previous versions of IE, namely IE6 and IE7. While past releases of Internet Explorer blocked eight ports, with IE8 Microsoft has extended the list to no less than 10. This behavior is by default a... |
18 June 2009
07:32 GMT |
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Microsoft Australia has buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet and is inviting users to download and install Internet Explorer 8 and then follow a series of clues that will potentially lead them to the money. Aiming to emphasize that the webpage where the $10,000 is buried can only be viewed with IE8, the division ... |
17 June 2009
09:20 GMT |
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One aspect of the evolution from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 is the introduction of accelerators. Designed to streamline mundane and repetitive actions performed via the browser, accelerators are an integral part of IE8, kicking functionality up a notch. The successor of IE7 does ship with a range of a... |
17 June 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8, just as rival browsers, including Google Chrome and the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, comes with an evolved address bar. The IE8 Smart Address bar is no longer limited to allowing end users to enter a URL in order to navigate to a certain website. Instead, the space has become an invaluable... |
15 June 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that it will strip Internet Explorer 8 completely from Windows 7 SKUs aimed for European markets. The move comes as a response to antitrust concerns for the bundling of the Internet Explorer web browser and the Windows operating system. In this context, the Redmond company has annou... |
12 June 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Firefox and Chrome might have Internet Explorer 8 beat on web standards support (CSS3 and HTML 5) and in the speed of the JavaScript engines, but fact is that IE8 bests both rival open-source browsers from Mozilla and Google in terms of nutritious value per download. In partnership with Feeding America, Microsoft has... |
11 June 2009
07:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has released the first security update for the latest version of its browser. Internet Explorer 8 downloads became available to the public in mid-March 2009, and in parallel the successor of IE7, running on Windows 7 no less, was hacked by a security researcher participating in the CanSecWest Vancouver 2009... |
10 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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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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Microsoft may have already started gathering feedback for Internet Explorer 9 and debuted planning for the next iteration of IE, but it is still in the process of making Internet Explorer 8 available worldwide. On May 29, 2009, the Redmond company released a new wave of IE8 RTW downloads, the third one since the init... |
2 June 2009
02:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued an update designed to take to the next level the Compatibility View List for the copies of Internet Explorer 8 that ship as default components of Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2. The refresh is designed to integrate seamlessly with IE8 running on top of the Release candidate builds of... |
27 May 2009
12:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is enriching the collection of language packs available for Internet Explorer 8 RTW. At the end of April 2009, the Redmond company promised that it would deliver the IE8 gold language packs aimed specifically at Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in mid-May. With the release of the two Multilingual User Int... |
15 May 2009
13:21 GMT |
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With the advent of Internet Explorer 8 RTW, Microsoft has changed the way that the browser informs users that mixed content is available to be displayed. Essentially, the Redmond company has re-focused the dialog box from nonsecure content to secure content, and is making it abundantly clear that selecting the first ... |
15 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Google Chrome is nothing short of a non-event, Mozilla's Firefox is defective, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer is going nowhere fast, while continuing to lose market share to rivals. These are the conclusions of a whitepaper put together by Janco Associates. The market analysis firm has slammed Chrome as ... |
14 May 2009
03:47 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows 7 Release Candidate, Microsoft also delivered a new version of Internet Explorer. Being bundled into Windows 7 as a default component, Internet Explorer 8 comes in a separate flavor tailored to the next iteration of the Windows client, still in development, although the versions designed fo... |
11 May 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Accelerators are by no means restricted to Internet Explorer 8. In fact, Microsoft has worked to build the necessary infrastructure in Windows 7 in order to deliver the fertile soil necessary to make Accelerators pervasive throughout the operating system. Just as IE8 features a collection of accelerators, so can any ... |
8 May 2009
07:33 GMT |
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With Internet Explorer 8 users are able to run multiple instances of the browser, completely separate, each in its own session. With the latest release of the Internet Explorer, the Redmond company aimed to simplify browser session handling, simplification which allows IER8 to move away from the traditional model of ... |
7 May 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 will not be technically done until Microsoft will sign off the code for Windows 7, which comes to the table with its own IE8 components. And yet, even after the Release Candidate of Windows 7 hit the web, Microsoft has started looking ahead to the next iteration of Internet Explorer. It's yet... |
7 May 2009
04:35 GMT |
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After just one day since Windows 7 Release Candidate delivered new functionality for Internet Explorer 8 Build 7100, Microsoft is killing it off. IE8 continues to evolve past the RTW stage for previous versions of Windows, as the browser is an integral component of Windows 7. With the RC Build 7100, the Redmond compa... |
6 May 2009
03:41 GMT |
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The evolution of Internet Explorer 8 did not stop with the release to web in mid-March 2009 for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Fact is that the development process continued as Windows 7 moved from Beta to Release Candidate stage. Now, with the public availability of Windows 7... |
5 May 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Starting in the third week of April, Microsoft has debuted automatic upgrades to Internet Explorer 8. IE6 and IE7 users running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are being offered IE8 as an update via AU. Still, Microsoft has stressed the fact that Internet Explorer 8 delivered th... |
4 May 2009
06:47 GMT |
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No less than 43 localized versions of Internet Explorer 8 are currently available for download from Microsoft. The Redmond company made the first 25 available with the initial release to web of IE8 in March 2009, and added support for an extra 18 languages on April 24. But in addition to offering IE8 in 43 languages,... |
29 April 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Over a month since the initial availability of Internet Explorer 8 RTW, Microsoft has made available for download a fresh wave of releases. The Redmond company gave the green light to IE8 RTW downloads on March 19, 2009, but the delivery of the gold version of Internet Explorer 7's successor was far from over. W... |
27 April 2009
03:14 GMT |
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Windows 7 is an integral part of Microsoft’s End to End Trust vision, the Redmond company underlined at the RSA Conference. Announced just a year ago, the End to End Trust strategy is designed as nothing more than a concept that will drive the evolution of the Internet toward an offering a trustworthy experienc... |
22 April 2009
12:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a series of security updates designed to patch pre-RTW copies of Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000. On April 14, 2009, the Redmond company released the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-014 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (963027) rated ... |
16 April 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to start serving automatic upgrades to Internet Explorer 8. Fact is that the Redmond company has already debuted the Automatic distribution of its latest iteration of IE. In this regard, the software giant confirmed that IE8 RTW (release to web) was already offered via Automatic Update/Windows... |
13 April 2009
02:51 GMT |
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The Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 is an integral part of Microsoft's focus to drive a high level of application compatibility for its next iteration of the Windows client, the Release Candidate build. Still, Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 is by no means limited to Windows 7, as the resource also s... |
6 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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There is no doubt that Internet Explorer 8 is far superior to its precursor IE7. In a variety of aspects, from modern web standards support to security features and to performance, IE8 users will be able to easily feel the difference after they upgrade to the latest iteration of Internet Explorer. Especially when it ... |
3 April 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering for download not only the plain vanilla version of Internet Explorer 8, but also a customized variant tailored to its MSN web properties. In this regard, the Redmond company is advertising a copy of Internet Explorer 8 RTW (released to web) that is optimized for MSN. At the same time, the softwa... |
2 April 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Compatibility View in Internet Explorer 8 RTW (release to web) is a set of features designed as the result of Microsoft's efforts not to break the web. Unlike its precursors, Internet Explorer 8 is aligned with modern web standards, including Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2.1 (CSS2.1) from World Wide Web Consort... |
1 April 2009
09:51 GMT |
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The release of Internet Explorer 8 on March 19, 2009, did nothing to turn IE's downward trajectory around, despite shooting past old-time rivals such as Opera and newer competitors like Google Chrome without any problems. In just a few days short of the first couple of weeks on the market, IE has left Chrome and... |
1 April 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Following the official availability of Internet Explorer 8 RTW (release to web), Yahoo and now eBay have introduced optimized versions of the browser, tailored to their respective services. Earlier this week, you have been able to read about and access the download for the IE8 flavor tailored to Yahoo. But eBay is al... |
27 March 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Microsoft's claims that it has invested heavily in bulletproofing Internet Explorer 8 as much as possible are by no means a simple marketing strategy to pass the browser as offering a high level of security for end users. In fact, a recent study performed by the NSS Labs signaled out IE8 as the safest browser co... |
26 March 2009
10:56 GMT |
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