Tag: IE

Oh Microsoft, sometimes you're so unintentionally hilarious that we just can't handle it. Apparently the folks in Redmond are tired of watching Internet Explorer (IE) get beat up in the press and decided to release their own report showing that IE8 is the fastest Web browser out there, despite all other benchmarks putting it firmly behind every modern browser except IE7. In the words of Lee ...

A few months ago Microsoft released its second beta (pre-release) version of Internet Explorer 8, and while we liked what we saw, it was still a little early to think about installing for real. Now Microsoft has delivered an updated version, and while it's still not quite fully polished and ready to roll, it may be time to think about upgrading. Microsoft is calling this the first release ...

Steve Ballmer took the stage to give the pre-CES keynote yesterday and unveiled a long list of updates and features coming to Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, the Windows Live family of products, and Xbox. For the sake of simplicity, we've boiled them down into a series bullet points of what to look out for from Microsoft in the coming year. The long and the short of it is that Ballmer barely ...

Ok, maybe it's a bit early to start playing 'Taps' over the corpse of Microsoft, but there is reason to believe that a little thing called "the Internet" is slowly hacking away at the computing giant. Stats for November show browser behemoth Internet Explorer taking another hit in browser market share, dipping below 70-percent, while Firefox held on to more that 20-percent of global market share ...

Break out the marching band. After tons of media coverage, and suggestions from plenty of security experts, bloggers, and random people on the street that users switch to Firefox from Internet Explorer, Microsoft has released a patch to fix the latest zero-day exploit in the infamously insecure browser. The update is available for IE 5, 6, and 7. Beta testers of IE 8 should install build ...

An open letter to Microsoft: Dear Microsoft, We understand that no software is 100-percent secure, and that your market dominance makes your products bigger targets for hackers, but we're seriously running out of excuses for you. Your record on security is simply becoming a deal breaker. It took you eight years to plug a hole in your file sharing platform and flaws that would allow hackers to ...

There is one sure fire way to make the normally quiet and geeky Bill Gates a little peeved -- question his company's record of "capitalizing on the innovation of others." According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop, that's exactly what a blogger, Jonathan Snook, did at a small meeting between the online-citizen journalists of the tech world and the founder/honcho of Microsoft at ...