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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
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Microsoft scrapped the Beta label and released the gold version of Windows Live Movie Maker to web on August 19, 2009. Tailored to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the application is the first component of Windows Live Essentials that has been optimized for Windows 7 RTM, the Redmond company emphasized. One example in wh... |
20 August 2009
03:32 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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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
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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
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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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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
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Microsoft confirmed that it planned to release a new development milestone of .NET RIA Services come next month. According to Dinesh Kulkarni, a program manager in the Application Frameworks Product Unit in the Developer Division, the first version of .NET RIA Services will be available as a Community Technology Prev... |
12 June 2009
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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
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The wait for the next iteration of Silverlight is almost over, Microsoft has officially confirmed. The Redmond company has indicated that Silverlight 3 will be released on July 10, 2009, a tad over a month from now. In this context, the software giant has managed to take its alternative to Adobe Flash from version 2 ... |
29 May 2009
09:04 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's time for the next stage in the evolution of the Office 2007 System. Microsoft will release Office 2007 Service Pack 2 today, April 28, 2009. The Redmond company has already announced the availability of the service pack; however, at the time of this article the download links for the service pack were not y... |
28 April 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 was initially released to web at Microsoft's web-centric conference MIX09, but the Redmond company took the new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for the ASP.NET 3.5 runtime a step further. In a move designed to indicate increasing support for the open-source model, the software giant is not ... |
2 April 2009
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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
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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
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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
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Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 to web on March 19, 2009, delivering a range of new features and capabilities as well as extending support for modern web standards. The evolution from IE7 to IE8 impacts both end users and developers alike, the latter having to take into consideration yet another browser in the... |
26 March 2009
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On the heels of the gold version of Internet Explorer 8, Yahoo is offering an optimized variant of the latest iteration of Internet Explorer. Of course that the IE8 flavor offered by Yahoo is tailored to the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant's online properties. Back at the end of 2006, Yahoo made a similar move wi... |
25 March 2009
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It's on more than one occasion that rival browsers “swimming” in JavaScript have made Internet Explorer look like a fish out of water. Just the past week, Google released Chrome Experiments, a collection of content tailored to the Chrome browser and its V8 JavaScript engine, some of which are perfect... |
25 March 2009
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Bugs that have survived the RTW (release to web) deadline of Internet Explorer 8 will be addressed no earlier than in the next version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft informed. At the same time, the Redmond company is already looking to the future and is indicating that preparations are in place to start gathering fe... |
24 March 2009
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ASP.NET MVC is an integral part of Microsoft's efforts focused on server-side development. At MIX09, the Redmond company announced the finalization of ASP.NET 1.0 MVC, with the gold bits released to web last week. With the RTW development milestone of ASP.NET 1.0 MVC, Microsoft is delivering what it has referred... |
24 March 2009
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Microsoft is applauding the latest iteration of Internet Explorer, a browser once under a barrage of criticism for its failure to play nice with open standards, because it manages to offer a complete implementation of CSS 2.1, the first product in the industry to do so, leaving rivals in the dust. Jason Upton, test m... |
23 March 2009
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With the final build of Internet Explorer 8 available for download, Microsoft is looking past the RTW (release to web) development milestone for IE8. And the fact of the matter is that while Microsoft has just wrapped up Internet Explorer 8, it is now gearing its efforts to wrapping up IE8 all over again. This becaus... |
20 March 2009
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Concomitantly with the general availability of Internet Explorer 8 RTW, Microsoft also released to web the IE8 Language Packs. Fact is that the gold version of IE8 RTW is currently available for download in no less than 25 languages, but the software giant has taken it one step further. In addition to the fully local... |
20 March 2009
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Microsoft is applauding the recently launched Internet Explorer 8 as the most standards-compliant IE browser to date. And in comparing IE8 only with past releases of IE the Redmond company is right, however, critics and rival browser makers have made sure to point out that Internet Explorer 8 falls short of offering ... |
20 March 2009
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The March 19 release to web of Internet Explorer 8 RTW is just the first step in a complex availability ballet for the browser that will stretch well into mid-2009. Still, there is more to come for the successors of Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft continues to cook future releases of IE8, as well as automatic upgrades... |
20 March 2009
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Forget about Internet Explorer 7. The wait is finally over. Microsoft has wrapped up the final version of Internet Explorer 8 and made the bits available for download. That's right, the gold bits of Internet Explorer 8 are now up for grabs, as the links for the RTW (release to web) variant of the browser went li... |
19 March 2009
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At MIX09 Microsoft released to web a collection of resources, both tools and UI extensions, designed to take the administrative tasks of IIS 7.0 server to the next level. Windows Server 2008 Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 RTW is not available for download in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Essentially Microsoft is p... |
19 March 2009
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UPDATE: Internet Explorer 8 RTW is now available for download. Get ready to download the final version of Internet Explorer 8. According to Microsoft, the gold bits of IE8 will go live at noon EDT on March 19. It is not a coincidence that IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch is scheduled to keynote on day two of the ... |
19 March 2009
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Even as it is getting closer and close to releasing Internet Explorer 8 to web, Microsoft continues to be mum on the availability deadline. Still, this doesn’t seem to be valid for Microsoft Taiwan. According to the software giant’s representatives from the country, Internet Explorer 8 is geared up to del... |
12 March 2009
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Downloads of Internet Explorer 8 RTW are just around the corner, approximately a couple of weeks away. The RTW label stands for “release to web,” a reference Microsoft uses for software solutions that are made available via the web, the equivalent of RTM (release to manufacturing) for desktop products. Th... |
6 March 2009
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With the launch of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 at the end of January 2009, Microsoft confirmed that it had delivered the last major development milestone for the browser ahead of RTW. Still, the Redmond company failed to pinpoint the availability deadline for the gold version of the next iteration of Inte... |
24 February 2009
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Silverlight GDR1 shipped just a few months after Silverlight 2 was released to web (RTW), with Microsoft claiming that it was nothing more than just a minor release. According to Tim Sneath, Silverlight 2 GDR1 was designed to bring to the table a few updates set up to resolve a number of issues reported to Microsoft ... |
20 February 2009
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Microsoft released Silverlight 2 in mid-October 2008 and, five months later, an upgrade is available for download. Hundreds of millions of downloads later, users have the opportunity to update Silverlight 2 to the latest version available. In this regard, Silverlight 2 GDR 1 is now available as the successor of Silve... |
20 February 2009
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The gold version of Internet Explorer 8 is now but weeks away, as the RTW (release to web) deadline is set for March 2009. Following the availability of Release Candidate 1 of Internet Explorer 8 at the end of January 2009, Microsoft confirmed that it had offered the last development milestone ahead of the final vers... |
18 February 2009
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In October 2008, Microsoft shipped the gold version of Silverlight 2, and the company moved onward with the development of its Flash killer. With Adobe having announced earlier this month that it accounted for record installations of Flash 10, revealing that the latest release of the technology was already deployed o... |
2 February 2009
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A corrupted cache can stop users from signing into Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) with their Live ID accounts. According to Microsoft, the issue is not limited to just the latest iteration of its instant messaging client, as older versions of the software are also affected by the same problem. “Some users se... |
26 January 2009
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The final version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) is available for download. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced during the opening keynote address at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas that Microsoft had wrapped up the development of Windows Live Essentials, a suite... |
8 January 2009
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