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10 Reasons Why Chrome, Firefox Threaten Internet Explorer

October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft might be happy with Internet Explorer, but that doesn’t mean that it will be able to dominate the browser market indefinitely. Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox might have a chance to take over. Here are 10 reasons why Chrome and Firefox will keep whittling away at Explorer’s lead.
– Googles recent announcement that it has updated its Chrome Web
browser with new add-ons to extend its functionality and has optimized
the browser for use as a native desktop client is the latest threat to
the dominance of Microsofts Internet Explorer.
Now developers can tweak the Chrome browse…

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Support Continues, Despite Calls for Phase-Out

August 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft will continue to support Internet Explorer 6 through April 2014, despite some calls to phase out the 8-year-old browser. Although a significant percentage of people continue to use IE 6, that number has been dropping as more users adopt either Internet Explorer 8 or a rival browser such as Mozilla Firefox.
– The online community has been debating whether sites should continue to
support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, with some IT administrators and
security experts publicly asking whether now is the time to think about
shutting down the 8-year-old browser.
The newest flurry of debate erupted afte…

Mozilla Firefox Hits 1 Billion Downloads, Still Gaining in Enterprise

August 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Mozilla Firefox, the open-source challenger to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, passed the 1-billion download mark on July 31, with a Website and Twitter feed marking the occasion. Although Firefox has managed to seize an increasing percentage of the consumer market since its original rollout in 2002, its gains have been somewhat slower in the enterprise, where a variety of factors have kept Internet Explorer as the browser of choice for many IT administrators.
– Mozilla’s Firefox browser hit 1 billion downloads on July 31, with
the open-source foundation using the occasion to trumpet itself as a
viable alternative to Microsofts Internet Explorer.

On Aug. 3, Mozilla plans to launch a Website
to mark the achievement; details of the site content are und…

An emergency patch for Internet Explorer and Visual Studio by Microsoft

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft is all set to release patches for Internet Explorer and Visual Studio in this week. Releasing a patch with such urgency is a rare move for the company, but it also seems to be necessary as the problems and Malware threat in IE have been described as â€œcriticalâ€, which is the most serious of [...]

Microsoft Pushing Out Critical Security Patches Next Week

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft will release two out-of-band security bulletins July 28, targeting issues in Internet Explorer and the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.
– Microsoft is planning to release two out-of-band security
bulletins next week to fix critical vulnerabilities.
Microsoft did not release many details about the issues, but the
company does not typically release patches except on its monthly
Patch Tuesday. According to Microsoft’s
Advance N…

Microsoft in new EU browser offer

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft logo on badges

Microsoft has made a new proposal to European competition regulators that it hopes will end their row over the firm’s Internet Explorer web browser.

Last month the US giant said European buyers of its new Windows 7 operating system will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.

That move followed the European Commission’s ruling in January that pre-bundling Explorer hurt competition.

Microsoft now proposes Windows 7 will offer a list of potential browsers.

It said users would be able to "easily install competing web browsers, set one of those browsers as a default, and disable Internet Explorer" from a "ballot screen" of alternative browsers.

Commission competition regulators said they welcomed the proposal and "will now investigate its practical effectiveness in terms of ensuring genuine consumer choice".

Last year Microsoft was fined 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) by the Commission for separate anti-competitive practices. </p

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10 Reasons Why Companies Should Consider Alternatives to Internet Explorer

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Internet Explorer may be the top Web browser in the enterprise, but should it hold the top spot? Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome outshine the Microsoft browser in terms of innovation. Here are 10 of the factors that might make some companies want to switch to the competition.
– Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been a
lightning rod for controversy as of late. The software giant has been facing intense
pressure from the European Union not to bundle its browser with Windows 7
when the operating system is released later in 2009. Opera Software has
continued pelting Micros…

Microsoft Changes IE8 Default Browser Settings

July 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft has made changes to the first-run experience in its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser to allow users to more easily change their default browser selection. Microsoft is defending a lawsuit brought by European Union antitrust regulators at the behest of Norwegian browser competitor Opera Software over the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system.
– Perhaps in a nod to European Union (EU) antitrust officials, Microsoft has made changes to the first-run experience in its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser to allow users to more easily change their default browser selection.
The software giant made the changes apparent in a blog post published by…

Export / import favorite bookmarks in Internet Explorer

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Most of us have favorite websites which we visit on regular basis. We often add such websites to favorite websites bookmarks list in Internet Explorer. This allows us to easily visit such websites in few simple clicks without having to type website address in Internet Explorer. Besides saving bookmarks, you can also import or export [...]