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- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely...
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- IT Dojo: Control users' temporary Internet files and browser history
- In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you a simple monitoring solution that uses Windows Server 2003 Group Policy.Before watching the video, you should realize this tip isn't right for every situation. This method uses Windows XP and Internet Explorer's local browsing history. To view the history files, you...
- Tags: Information Technology, Temporary Internet File, Monitoring, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, it dojo, security, internet, internet explorer, microsoft windows xp, ie
- Videos 2008-07-07
- Microsoft to alter Vista to address Google complaint?
- On June 19, the U.S. Department of Justice was slated to release its latest Microsoft antitrust compliance report. (It's past 8 p.m. EST. Still no sign of it yet.)In the interim, Reuters and Bloomberg are both reporting that Microsoft has agreed to alter Windows Vista in some way to appease...
- Tags: Windows client, Vista, Legal, Internet Explorer, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Safari for Windows: Mozilla was right
- Back in January, the Mozilla folks hinted that they expected Apple to deliver a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows.They were dead-on.At the opening keynote at Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 10, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple is porting Safari to Windows...
- Tags: Windows XP, Vista, Internet Explorer, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- What's next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up (a little)
- Microsoft still isnt talking specifics in terms of what it plans to deliver as part of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE 8.0. But at the Mix 07 conference in Las Vegas, Chris Wilson, platform architect of Internet Explorer, did share some general directions the team is taking with...
- Tags: MIX07, Internet Explorer, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- What would a Google investment in Maxthon mean to Microsoft?
- Maxthon -- the Chinese browser vendor that introduced tabbed browsing to Internet Explorer before Microsoft itself did -- is poised to become a Google ally and partner, according to TechCrunch.com TechCrunch reported on April 10 that Maxthon had sold a minority stake of approximately $1 million to Google and...
- Tags: Internet Explorer, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, Office 2007
- The Department of Transportation has put an indefinite ban on upgrades to Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, as first reported by Information Week. Heres the DOT memo outlining the Vista "moratorium," dated January 19. "Based on our initial analysis (from internal recommendations and analysis...
- Tags: App Compatibility, Internet Explorer, Office 2007, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Microsoft's 'Flash-killer' now supports Firefox on the Mac
- The latest Community Technology Preview CTP test builds of Microsofts Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) product went live this week. As of this build, Microsoft is supporting, for the first time, the Firefox on the Mac. WPF/E is, in Microsofts words, "a browser enhancement module that enables browsers to render...
- Tags: Development tools, Internet Explorer, WPF/e
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Look who has joined Microsoft's IE team
- OK, so shes only a "contractor" and not a Red-Pill-popping full-timer. But standards maven Molly Holzschlag is now working on the Web Platform and Tools team of which Internet Explorer is part.IE has not been -- as even Microsoft officials have conceded -- the most standards-compliant browser out there. IE...
- Tags: Web browsers, team, Molly Holzschlag, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Vista: Where are the killer apps?
- If youve seen any Windows Vista demos over the past year, youve probably seen Microsoft show off a handful of Vista-customized applications, like The New York Times Reader, North Faces kiosk application, and iBloks multimedia-sharing wares. But where are the rest of the Vista killer...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Internet Explorer, App Compatibility, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input
- Microsoft has contacted a number of beta testers to seek input it will use to customize Internet Explorer IE 8, the next version of its Web browser. IE 8 is expected to ship 18 to 24 months after IE 7, which Microsoft released last fall, making Version 8.0 a...
- Tags: Internet Explorer, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
- Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
- A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer IE engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief. "While the...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, HTML, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Microsoft's IE 8.0: More than just vaporware
- When I mentioned in a post yesterday that I had heard there was an alpha build of Internet Explorer IE 8.0 circulating inside Microsoft, some were skeptical. But over on Microsofts Channel 9 site, Bruce Morgan, a software development manager on the IE team, who describes his...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, alpha
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Safari for Windows from Apple? Mozilla thinks so
- Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. Buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox is a statement under the "Observations & Assumptions"...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Windows XP, Internet Explorer, App Compatibility, Windows Mobile, Apple, Apple Computer Inc., SAFARI, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Next versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox taking shape
- Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation are pushing ahead with their respective next versions of their Web browsers. Their methods are different, but many of their priorities are -- at least in theory -- quite similar. The Mozilla Foundation has published to a public wiki a list of...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- In case you missed it (Part 2): Microsoft history revisited
- Here are a few more holiday-season posts you might have missed if you were away from your PC the past couple of weeks. Microsoft historians are likely to find these links especially well-worth a read. Redmond Developer News has a long but interesting Q&A with Brad Silverberg, the former...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Venture capital, Brad Silverberg, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support
- A new plug-in providing Firefox support for Microsofts CardSpace digital-identity framework is now available for public download. Solution architect Kevin Miller, who played an instrumental role in developing the technology, announced the availability of his Firefox add-on for Windows via his blog. Why is Firefox support important? Until...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- IE 6 and 7 side-by-side on the same PC? Now it (legally) can be done
- Developers and testers have been clamoring for Microsoft to provide a way to run Internet Explorer IE 6.0 and 7.0 side-by-side on the same machine. On November 30, Microsoft released a solution for doing so. Microsoft has decided to deliver a Virtual PC virtual-machine image containing a pre-activated Windows...
- Tags: Legal, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Where's Microsoft's 'Flash killer'?
- Anyone out there still remember Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/e), Microsofts so-called Flash killer? Last time Microsoft discussed the WPF/e technology publicly was in March, at the Mix 06 conference. (I hear there was a demo of WPF/e as part of the MSN Soapbox demo at the recent Streaming...
- Tags: Development tools, Internet Explorer, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- With Vista, what does 'done' really mean?
- The day has finally come: Windows Vista is going gold. And the public announcement that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing is going to happen tomorrow, November 8, around 11 a.m. PST, sources close to the company are saying. Microsofts spokespeople arent confirming, but it sounds like at...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Internet Explorer, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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