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Download IE8 RTW Optimized for eBay

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

Free IE8 RTW Virtual Labs on Vista Enterprise SP1

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
05:27 GMT

Download IE8 RTW Optimized for Yahoo, Nothing for Google

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
11:34 GMT

IE8 JavaScript Evolution Focused on Boosting Performance of Real World JS Apps

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
05:19 GMT

Post-RTW IE8 Bugs Will Be Fixed in the Next Version of Internet Explorer

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
08:18 GMT

ASP.NET 1.0 MVC RTW

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
06:22 GMT

Microsoft: IE8 Has the First Complete Implementation of CSS 2.1

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
04:47 GMT

Beyond IE8: Windows 7's IE8, and the Next Iteration of Internet Explorer

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
11:09 GMT

Download IE8 RTW Language Packs for Vista SP1

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
09:46 GMT

Microsoft: Standards-Complete IE8 Impossible

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
08:13 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RTW Future Releases, Downloads, Automatic Upgrades

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
04:56 GMT

Download Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RTW for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

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
11:51 GMT

Windows Server 2008 Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 RTW

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
08:28 GMT

Get Ready to Download Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Final

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
04:01 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 RTW March 20, 2009

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
11:53 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RTW Available for Download in Just 2 Weeks

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
03:14 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 Build 8.0.6001.18691

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
03:26 GMT

Silverlight 2 GDR1 Upgrade for Silverlight 2 RTW - What's New

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
10:58 GMT

Download Silverlight 2 GDR1 Upgrade for Silverlight 2 RTW

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
03:09 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 RTW Now Weeks Away, in March 2009

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
15:11 GMT

Microsoft to Deliver a Taste of Silverlight 3 in March 2009

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
10:26 GMT

Clean Up Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Corrupted Cache

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
17:01 GMT

Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) RTW

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
09:23 GMT

IE8 Automatic Update to Be Distributed to XP and Vista

Internet Explorer 8 continues to be in Beta 2 stage, with the first (and only) Release Candidate in the baking oven, and Microsoft informed that the next iteration of the browser would be distributed automatically to all supported Windows platforms, with the exception of Windows 7. The Redmond company announced that ...

7 January 2009
14:21 GMT

Silverlight 2 RTW 2.0.31005.0 Browser Support

Silverlight, Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash, has evolved to version 2 (available for download since mid-October 2008) on Windows and Mac OS X, with Moonlight trailing behind for Linux. Already reaching over one in four consumers worldwide, Silverlight's support for browser involves an official list ...

23 December 2008
07:42 GMT

IE8 RTW Will Not Install on Windows 7 Pre-Beta

The final version of Internet Explorer 8 will not install on the pre-Beta version of Windows, according to Microsoft. Just as it is the case with Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, Windows 7 will come with Internet Explorer 8 as a default component. However, users of Windows 7 pre-beta will only be able to use th...

17 November 2008
13:11 GMT

IE8 Beta 2 Life Extended Until December 31, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 has received a life extension. The second development milestone of the browser will now live until December 31, 2008. It is only on the last day of this year that Microsoft will be ready to pull the plug on IE8 Beta 2. The deadline for cutting support for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was init...

14 November 2008
16:01 GMT

Get Ready to Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) RTW

Microsoft is gearing up to make available for download the gold version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0/2009. The Redmond company has so far managed not to indicate a delivery deadline for the next version of its instant messaging client. In this regard, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc only mentioned that the next ver...

13 November 2008
14:11 GMT

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Goes RTW for Vista SP1

Microsoft is now one step closer to Apache with its own Internet Information Services. This because the Redmond company made available for download the bits of the Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW (released to web). Essentially, the URL rewrite module replicates the extension functionality already availab...

11 November 2008
05:29 GMT

Silverlight 2 RTW Available for Download

Microsoft announced the releasing to Web of Silverlight 2 on October 13, 2008, and the availability of the gold bits the subsequent day, on October 14. As promised, the Adobe Flash killer, namely Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in is now up for grabs. This is, of course, t...

14 October 2008
07:32 GMT

Microsoft's Flash Killer, Silverlight 2, Released to Web

Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008. At the same time, users who have already deployed Silverlight 2 on their ma...

13 October 2008
12:23 GMT

Final IE8 Confirmed for November, Possibly November 1

It's right about due time for end users to start holding their breath for the final release of Internet Explorer 8. Although Microsoft has failed to confirm an official delivery deadline, the Redmond company did manage to let IE8 RTW details slip through its fingers. Now with the IE8 Beta 2 bits available for do...

3 September 2008
03:14 GMT


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