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Google Instant Search Demo: A First Look at Speedier Search

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Google Sept. 8 introduced Google Instant, which is quite simply a speedier Google search that renders results as users type them into the search box. Google Instant attempts to guess or predict what users will search for, providing suggested search keywords in light gray as users type in their query. The technology should apply more pressure on Microsoft to innovate on its Bing search engine. Google Instant is rolling out to users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web browsers in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the U.K. throughout the day. Google Instant will arrive for other geographies and platforms in the coming months. A version for smartphones and other mobile devices is coming later this year. Users who don’t want to use Instant can turn it off from the home page. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user experience, and other executives demonstrated the new technology at MOMA in San Francisco. See Google Instant in action in screen captures taken from Google’s YouTube Webcast of the event. – …

Windows 7: the Most Selling OS in the World

June 28th, 2010 | No Comments

According to the official information introduced by Microsoft, 150 million copies of its Windows 7 were sold within nine month after this operating system became available for sale. This operating system broke all records concerning its speed of sales. Windows 7 has already covered all the corporationâ€™s losses connected with the launch of its previous [...]

Internet Explorer 8 toolbars Posted By : Alexander Fisher

June 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Internet Explorer 8 toolbar is the instrument that lets you perform some routine actions more quickly, thus saving your time and providing comfort.

Microsoft IE 6 Share Falls as IE 8 Rises

June 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continue to lose popularity in the U.S. Web browser market, something the Windows maker claims it wants, while IE 8′s market share continues to rise. According to analytics company StatCounter, adoption of Firefox, Google Chrome and other rival browsers is continuing. Other analytics companies have reported similar statistics for Internet Explorer and other browsers. – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continued to see their shares of the U.S.
browser market decline in May, according to data from analytics company
StatCounter, even as pickup continues for the newer Internet Explorer 8. Although
IE 6 and 7 were market-share stalwarts a year ago, both browser…

Microsoft’s EU Browser Choice Screen Faces Commission Petition

March 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft found itself facing a formal petition from a consortium of smaller Web browsers, who are arguing to the European Commission that Microsoft’s Web browser choice screen for European users of Windows is fundamentally unfair. The Web browser choice screen was designed to sidestep the EC’s antitrust concerns over Microsoft including Internet Explorer with Windows, by offering European users an automatically downloaded window that offers a variety of browsers for downloading. The smaller browsers want layout changes to the screen that they say would give them a better chance to be considered by users.
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Microsoft faces a new issue in its long-running dispute with the European
Commission over the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 in copies of Windows.
Although Microsoft introduced a quot;Web browser choice screen quot; March
1 that was supposed to avert those bundling concerns by presenting Euro…

Microsoft Making IE 8 Fully Compatible with More Websites

March 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft issued an official blog posting March 2 detailing its engineers thinking process behind the build of Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of its Web browser, and how it chooses to render certain Websites. According to the blog posting, some 19 percent of high-traffic Websites currently render in IE 8 standards. Microsoft is working to reduce the list of Websites that IE 8 needs a feature called Compatibility View in order to render all elements properly.
– As part of its drive to have as many Websites compatible with Internet
Explorer 8 as possible, Microsoft in a blog posting March 2
describes the thinking that went into how the browser chooses to render Websites.
For some sites, IE 8 needs a feature known as Compatibility View to render all
e…

Microsoft Rolls Out EU Browser Choice Screen, Amid Calls for Extra Steps

March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft began rolling out its Web browser choice screen, which lets European users of Windows 7 choose a browser other than Internet Explorer. Designed to settle the concerns of the European Commission, Europes antitrust regulatory body, the browser ballot screen is being praised by some companies but downplayed by others. One nonprofit organization is suggesting that the ballot screen needs to be instituted for Windows 7 users worldwide, while one browser company is complaining that the structure of the ballot screen favors browsers with more market share, such as Firefox and Chrome, at the expense of smaller players.
– Microsoft began introducing its quot;Web browser choice screen, quot; which
presents European users of Windows 7 with a randomized list of popular browsers
to choose from in addition to Internet Explorer, on March 1. The measure is
designed to assuage antitrust concerns over Internet Explorer 8 …

Microsoft Sets Date for Windows ‘Browser Choice Screen’ in EU

February 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft plans to release its Web browser choice screen, or browser ballot screen, to Windows users in Europe starting the week of March 1. Offered as an automatic download for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, the screen will present users with a randomized list of popular browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. Microsoft is enacting the ballot screen in order to sidestep antitrust concerns from the European Commission, Europes antitrust regulatory body, over the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7.
– Microsoft plans to offer Windows users in Europe a quot;Web
browser choice screen quot; starting the week of March 1, which will present a
randomized list of popular browsers for installation on a user’s PC. Microsoft
originally proposed this quot;choice screen, quot; also known as ballot scree…

Older IE Versions Maintain Sizable Market Share Despite Security Concerns

February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren’t taking advantage of the latest browser security protections.
– Arguably one of the most
interesting elements of the cyber-attack that affected Google and more than 30
other companies was the primary
attack vector Internet Explorer 6.
The attack exploited an HTML
object memory corruption vulnerability in IE that Microsoft
was notified about in September….

Microsoft Faces New EU Commissioner, May Soon Close IE 8 Deal

December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft will have a new European Commission Competition Commissioner in mid-January 2010, as Neelie Kroes steps down to take another position within the EU law enforcement body. Meanwhile, reports circulating online indicate that Microsoft and the European Commission may conclude a deal over Internet Explorer 8 being bundled with Windows 7 by Dec. 15. Opera, Mozilla and other companies previously planned on asking the Commission to review Microsoft’s solution for the issue, which involved installing a ballot screen that would let users choose their browser.
– Microsoft will face a new European Commission antitrust watchdog in
mid-January, as European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down
to take a new job as a vice president of the EC.
Due
to replace Kroes is JoachÃn Almunia, who currently serves as commissioner for
Economic …

Microsoft Will Be Challenged By Google, Opera, Mozilla on EU Settlement

November 6th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft and the European Commission may be close to a deal on packaging Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7, with Redmond agreeing to offer users an automatic ballot screen from which they can choose a rival browser. Such an agreement would alleviate the Commissions antitrust concerns, but Google, Opera and Mozilla plan on asking the regulatory body for as-yet-unannounced changes to the agreement.
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Microsoft may not quite be out of the woods yet with regard to its antitrust
dealings with the European Commission, the regulatory body that investigates
possible violations of European Union antitrust rules. Although Redmond and the
regulatory body seem close to a deal over the integration of …

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…

Microsoft Will Ship Same Version of Windows 7 to Europe

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft now plans to issue the same version of Windows 7 in Europe as in the rest of the world, only with a ballot screen that allows users to choose a specific Web browser. European antitrust regulators have threatened to cause trouble for Microsoft if it includes Internet Explorer 8 in the release of its new operating system, prompting Microsoft to develop Windows 7 E, an edition without Internet Explorer.
– After months of wrestling with European antitrust regulators, Microsoft
has decided to issue the same version of Windows 7 in the European Union as in
the rest of the world.
Previously, Microsoft had intended to ship Windows 7 E, a separate EU
version of its upcoming operating system that would…

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…

What is Windows 7 â€˜E versionâ€™ & â€˜N versionâ€™ editions?

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Windows 7 is an upcoming operating system from Microsoft which should be out on Oct 22, 2009. It will be available in different versions like Home premium, professional, ultimate. Besides these, there will be two special edition of Windows 7, which are: ‘E version’ & ‘N version’ editions.
What is E version Windows 7 edition?
Windows 7 [...]