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January has proven an interesting month in the browser market. IE grew in the first month of 2012, while both Firefox and Chrome lost market share, Chrome for the first time in its history. Internet Explorer, all versions combined, ended the month with 52.96 percent market share, according to Net Applications data, ... |
1 February 2012
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new feature being added to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, namely auto updates, set to kick off in January in Australia and Brazil, and the company was keen on explaining that the move should not affect businesses. As part of this move, the company is re-issuing the IE9 or IE8 W... |
16 December 2011
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We now have scientific proof, as scientific as web-based studies go, of what plenty of smug Firefox and Chrome users have been saying for years, Internet Explorer users aren't as smart as those that use alternative browsers. What's more, the older the browser version, the dumber users tend to be. AptiQuan... |
1 August 2011
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All Internet Explorer customers are supported equally, revealed IE boss Dean Hachamovitch recently, taking a jab at rivals Google and Mozilla which both focus more on end users, all but ignoring business customers. Hachamovitch, who is IE Corporate Vice President, pointed out that Google and Mozilla opted to support... |
28 June 2011
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It is well known that no matter how much software developers strive to offer the best version of a product there will always be some nitpicker expecting a different configuration. Internet Explorer 9 just launched on Monday but tweaking solutions for the application have been around for a long time. TweakIE9 is not ... |
18 March 2011
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Two years. That’s how long it took Microsoft to move from version 8 of Internet Explorer to a new edition. The ninth version of the web browser passed through 8 Platform previews, one beta and a Release Candidate to reach end users’ computers as a final release. Given the amount of attention it received ... |
15 March 2011
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In a surprising twist, Internet Explorer gained browser market share in February this while Firefox lost a big chunk and Chrome, uncharacteristically, only gained a modest amount. However, this wasn't due to some strange shift in market trends, rather it was due to new data about internet usage around the world.... |
1 March 2011
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Next week Microsoft will offer a dozen security bulletins designed to patch vulnerabilities in a range of products including Internet Explorer and Windows. And speaking of IE and Windows, according to preliminary information supplied by the software giant, the imminent patch packages will bring security updates for ... |
4 February 2011
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Internet Explorer 9 has been released and all the excitement of the day has finally toned down a notch or two. The interface of the new Internet Explorer has been stripped as much as possible of buttons and toolbars in order to offer an environment that puts the focus on the webpage and makes of the web bro... |
15 September 2010
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Windows Phone 7 is set to become available on the market only a few weeks from now, and new info on what it should be able to offer to users emerged, in the form of a video of its browser, which was compared to what the solutions available on iPhone or Android 2.2 can deliver. The 10-minute video below is meant to o... |
24 August 2010
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A new update to Internet Explorer is designed to make it as easy as possible for users to update their browser add-ons. Microsoft packaged a refresh for the Internet Explorer Upgrade Advisor list along with the August 2010 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. The move is designed to help IE users keep up... |
12 August 2010
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Not only is Internet Explorer 9 enjoying an excellent reception indicating clear skies ahead for the evolution of IE overall, but Microsoft’s browser managed to reverse its downward trajectory on the browser market worldwide. Furthermore, Internet Explorer did so to the detriment of Firefox and Chrome. Statisti... |
1 July 2010
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In the second half of February 2010, Microsoft made an important step in proving that its commitment to interoperability also spanned to Internet Explorer. Remember, this was before the company shipped the first Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, at which point the software giant delivered the first tangible re... |
27 May 2010
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The concept of same markup implies that users running different browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox Opera or Safari, can visit the same websites and get no differences for the content rendered, access video and audio seamlessly, enjoy the same experience with Cloud applications, etc. Same markup will... |
22 May 2010
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Internet Explorer 9 cannot get here soon enough, as Microsoft certainly needs a breath of fresh air in the browser race. The Redmond company has seen its share of the browser market drop constantly from month to month over the past years, and with the new open source browser from Google making headway competition, In... |
3 May 2010
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Microsoft has been hard at work building a patch for a zero-day security vulnerability affecting older versions of Internet Explorer. The security hole was first confirmed in the first half of this month, with the company indicating that a patch had been in the works as of mid-March. At that time, the software giant ... |
30 March 2010
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Microsoft is moving fast with the development of a security update designed to plug a zero-day hole that affects older versions of Internet Explorer such as IE6 and IE7. The Redmond company doesn’t offer users a patch yet, but it has made the next best thing available. Customers running IE6 and IE7 on top of Wi... |
15 March 2010
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The browser choice screen software update that is currently being offered to Windows users in the European Economic Area who have set Internet Explorer as default has been itself updated. Microsoft confirmed officially that it had tweaked the randomizing algorithm behind the browser ballot screen in order to ensure t... |
9 March 2010
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Microsoft has confirmed officially a vulnerability in VBScript, which affects copies of Internet Explorer running on top of older releases of Windows, including Windows XP SP3, but also Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. At the end of the past week, the company noted that it was investigating claims of a security... |
2 March 2010
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Users of Internet Explorer on top of Windows XP Service Pack 3 should mind the websites on which they ask for help by pressing F1, as they could risk getting infected with malware. Microsoft is currently investigating public reports of a security vulnerability that involves winhlp32.exe and Internet Explorer. Maurycy... |
1 March 2010
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Microsoft is currently hard at work laboring to produce the next iteration of Internet Explorer, namely IE9. At the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles the past year, the software giant promised that with the advent of Internet Explorer 9, it would kick up a notch standards support. However, in ter... |
25 February 2010
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Internet Explorer’s dominance on the browser market has been weakening constantly since Mozilla’s open source browser started getting traction with users. And with the advent of Google Chrome, IE’s share loss only became steeper. Statistics offered by Janco Associates reveal that in February 2010, I... |
23 February 2010
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Microsoft has warned customers running Internet Explorer that details on a new zero-day vulnerability have been made available in the wild. The company emphasized that it had not detected any attacks or exploits targeting the newly discovered security hole, and that it is hard at work on producing a patch. The compan... |
4 February 2010
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Microsoft is cooking up some rather interesting concepts for the evolution of the Internet Explorer graphical user interface. Case in point: a patent that the Redmond company filed for, describing a “system and method for selecting a tab within a tabbed browser.” Dubbed Quick Pick, the new UI will essenti... |
22 January 2010
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Microsoft has released the second security bulletin for 2010, after what it appeared to be a slow start for the Redmond company. In the first half of January, the company offered a single bulletin addressing vulnerabilities in supported Windows platforms. In this regard, Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 rated Cri... |
22 January 2010
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Microsoft has acknowledged that a Critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was one of the vectors leveraged in the recent attacks against Google from China. The Mountain View-based search giant has reacted extremely strong in the aftermath of Chinese-based hacking attempts directed at its Gmail infrastruc... |
15 January 2010
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The browser wars continue on several fronts, from JavaScript performance to support for modern web standards, but perhaps most importantly in terms of audience. The success of each browser is ultimately measured in install base and usage share, and in this regard, Microsoft is at the top of the browser game, with In... |
21 December 2009
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For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a solution proposed by Microsoft, designed to boost competit... |
16 December 2009
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A new extension designed to integrate seamlessly with both Internet Explorer and Firefox is set up to turbocharge the browser’s search capabilities according to Microsoft. The Redmond-based company has made available for download the Bing Bar, inviting users to think of the toolbar as a virtual assistant capabl... |
3 December 2009
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Internet Explorer is not what it used to be. Firefox, but also additional rival browser such as Safari and Google Chrome, have eroded Microsoft’s dominance on the browser market. IE is left struggling even after the release of Internet Explorer 8 this year and with no end in sight to its downward trajectory. T... |
20 November 2009
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Microsoft has been given the green light to test the Browser Ballot Screen in Windows 7, and previous releases of the Windows client in Europe, as a step forward on the company’s path to compliance with EU antitrust regulations. The measure, proposed by the software giant, comes after the European Antitrust Com... |
7 October 2009
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Microsoft made an out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer on July 28th, 2009. The move, which is an exception to the Redmond company's monthly patch cycle, is designed to bulletproof IE users against potential attacks designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL). Micro... |
29 July 2009
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The open-source browser from Mozilla has managed to grab a share of the market representing no less than half of the Microsoft proprietary browser, according to StatCounter data. Essentially, the market measuring firm indicates that Internet Explorer's share has dropped to under 60% while Firefox has grown conti... |
6 July 2009
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Microsoft is working to produce not only non-Windows operating systems, with examples such as Singularity and Midori, but also the evolution of the web browser beyond Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft Gazelle is not a plain vanilla browser; in fact, it evolved into an operating system capable of serving as platfo... |
3 July 2009
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The start of June 2009 should have been synonymous for Microsoft with a chance to defend the bundling of Internet Explorer and the Windows operating system, a practice considered monopolistic by EU antitrust regulators. However, the Redmond company won't get a chance to share its view with the Eu Antitrust Commi... |
22 May 2009
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The IE Browser Extension Creator is a project designed to streamline the process of registering browser extensions tailored to Internet Explorer. Hosted on Microsoft's open source repository, CodePlex, the solution automates the otherwise complex tasks associated with producing the registry entries for IE extens... |
27 February 2009
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Microsoft has patched two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP SP3, which could have allowed an attacker to perform remote code execution on a vulnerable computer in the eventuality of a successful exploit. However, Microsoft indicated that both s... |
11 February 2009
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The face off between Firefox and Internet Explorer has evolved to the next level with Mozilla jumping at Microsoft's jugular. In January 2009 the European Antitrust Commission served Microsoft with a Statement of Objections in which it concluded that the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 into Windows was a monopol... |
10 February 2009
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On January 15, 2009, the European Antitrust Commission sent a Statement of Objections to Microsoft, informing the company of its preliminary view generated by a 2008 complaint from browser maker Opera that the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows violated EU anti-monopoly law. The Redmond company confirmed the ... |
27 January 2009
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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
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Following an overhyped post-launch download frenzy, reality is setting in for Google Chrome. Google launched its own breed of open-source browser at the start of September 2008, and managed to cause strong reverberations across the market, only to settle in the cozy under 1% usage share segment two months later, wher... |
24 November 2008
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As far as Mozilla is concerned, the open source Firefox browser is superior to what rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Opera have to offer. Security is one of the aspects of software which can be quantified only by considering a variety of factors from the volume of attacks and the malware environment, to the number an... |
8 July 2008
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer team had nothing but love for Mozilla, especially on the day that Firefox 3.0 was unleashed. As absurd as this statement might sound, it is actually true. And the Redmond company itself offered illustrative proof of this via a memento that the IE team sent Mozilla to celebrate the l... |
18 June 2008
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When it transitioned the default browser of Mac OS X to Windows, Apple wrapped it up in a "secure by default" marketing aura, aimed to give users of the Microsoft proprietary operating system a real taste of browser protection. It is precisely Safari's high security level the reason for which Microsoft is advisi... |
2 June 2008
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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
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The face-off for dominance on the browser market is essentially a four-horse race between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Now, the truth of the matter is that Internet Explorer has long become the preferred browser worldwide, starting with the moment it was bundled with Windows and offered for free in o... |
3 March 2008
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer is without a doubt the main vector of attacks, when it comes down to web-based threats. Its ubiquity, as well as its intimate integration into the Windows platform, makes it an excellent avenue for attacks. With IE6, Microsoft has gained an ill reputation for failing dramatically to... |
6 February 2008
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A while ago there was a supposedly "viral" advertising campaign against Microsoft's Internet Explorer series, created by Mozilla, that claimed to have better and more tech savvy users for its Firefox browser than the competition. Dissed at the time for the way it was presented, there is still some truth to that,... |
1 February 2008
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Stuck at a negligible share of the browser market, Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Union Antitrust Commission pointing to the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows, as the reason for what it referred to as a lack of consumer choice. But Firefox seems to have no problems growing from under In... |
30 January 2008
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