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Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Conduct Research Safely on the Web

whitepaper One conducts the research by using a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, but one might not understand some of the seemingly confusing technology issues surrounding the Web. To understand these Web technology issues, it's important...

Tags: web browsers

[11 May 2008]

Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch

Photo The device runs a version of the Opera browser instead of Internet Explorer. Microsoft's senior VP of mobile comms, Andy Lees, explained this is due to "the leapfrog" HTC want to make with the device and IE6 for the mobile not being ready in time.

Tags: touchscreen, iphone, htc

[07 May 2008]

Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace

News Adoption of Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has also been sluggish with just 30 per cent of enterprise users on it 15 months after its launch. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just...

Tags: microsoft, xp, firefox, ie7

[02 Apr 2008]

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

News Firefox, which has been slowly chipping away at the lead held by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, recently announced that it had passed the 500 million download milestone. The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes...

Tags: mozilla, internet explorer, beta, firefox

[11 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News With Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari out there, we really don't need another web browser these days," said Keith Smith, director of product management for Microsoft's developer tools division.What we need to do is to focus on the 'scenario...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

Financial Services Firm Upgrades Browser to Enhance Security and User Productivity

whitepaper The company has been a longtime user of the Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet browser and wanted to improve network security, reduce support calls, and simplify the way its 5,500 employees worked with more than 140 browser-based applications.

Tags: network security

[29 Feb 2008]

Cannot Send a Web Site Address Link From Internet Explorer

whitepaper Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a command to send a URL link to an e-mail message recipient. One must manually copy and paste the Web page URL from the Web browser into the body of an Outlook e-mail message.

Tags: web browsers

[28 Feb 2008]

Internet Explorer 8: Beta to be launched

News According to the Internet Explorer blog, the next version of Microsoft's web browser is set for release in the first half of the year. Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in...

Tags: microsoft, beta, internet explorer, browser

[26 Feb 2008]

AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser

News But Microsoft fought back with Internet Explorer, winning Netscape's dominant market share. He said: "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not...

Tags: aol, netscape, windows, firefox

[02 Jan 2008]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta

News Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser, the open source rival has achieved a critical mass of users - Firefox has been downloaded more than 400 million times - and it's now common for designers to make sure their...

Tags: firefox, beta, microsoft, mozilla

[21 Nov 2007]

Ajax Hacks: Detect Browser Compatibility With the Request Object

whitepaper However, continuing with the tradition established by IE 5.0, recent vintages of Internet Explorer implement the software as an ActiveX object named Microsoft.XMLHTTP or Msxml2. Browser compatibility is an important consideration.

Tags: web browsers, named, object, ajax

[10 Oct 2007]

Microsoft unchains IE 7 for XP users

News Microsoft is to allow users of Windows XP to download Internet Explorer 7 without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Previously, to download Internet Explorer 7, users had to authenticate to WGA.

Tags: ie 7, firefox, wga, microsoft

[09 Oct 2007]

Pocket PC 2002 and Handheld PC Browser Comparison

whitepaper The main reasons for using Pocket Internet Explorer for the Pocket PC were its smaller software footprint and adaptability to the smaller screen size. Internet Explorer version 4.02 for Handheld PC 2000 is a port of Internet Explorer 4.0 from the...

Tags: web browsers, handheld, pc, pocket

[08 Oct 2007]

Technology Overview: Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7

whitepaper Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista provide a safer, more personalized and more productive browsing experience for users and a richer, more compatible platform for developers and IT administrators.

Tags: developers, explorer, browser, windows xp

[07 Oct 2007]

White Paper: Google Desktop Search Analysis

whitepaper It also indexes Internet Explorer's web cache. Google Desktop Search uses the browser user interface, and adds a tab to the Google home page. The small 400 KB applet indexes Outlook and Outlook Express mail, Microsoft Office formats and AOL chat...

Tags: search strategies, search, outlook, windows pcs

[14 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07

Round-Up It's Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which garnered a remarkable two-thirds of the vote. The original IE launched in 1995 as a competitor to Netscape and so the browser wars were born. IE won definitively and by the time version 5 was...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[03 Aug 2007]

IE 'most influential tech product for 25 years'

News The most influential technology product of the past 25 years is Microsoft's oft-derided web browser, Internet Explorer, according to a survey of IT professionals. Internet Explorer, which garnered two-thirds of the vote, was launched in 1995.

Tags: microsoft, technology, internet explorer

[01 Aug 2007]

Firefox takes IE down another notch

News Since its launch Firefox has been steadily gaining market share from the dominant browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Although Microsoft still has 66.5 per cent of the browser market across Europe, in certain countries Firefox has now...

Tags: firefox

[17 Jul 2007]

Safari paves way for brighter web colours

News Unlike the prevailing browsers on the internet - Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox - the Apple browser supports different ways of encoding images that can mean richer, deeper colours.

Tags: safari

[20 Jun 2007]

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