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Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the ...
Internet, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE6, Browsers, Demonic Possession, Heinous
Google announced yesterday that beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites, they’ll be phasing out support for older web browsers — specifically the demon-haunted Internet Explorer 666.
Google, Web Browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Web Standards
You may have heard that Microsoft’s new version of Windows (Windows 7) has been officially released, with features such as Jump Lists, Aero Shake, Snap, new Device Stage Management, as well as new levels of home group network interaction. There’s a lot of talk about it on the PC websites; ...
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, is getting rave advance reviews; after the very underwhelming Windows Vista, it looks like MS may have finally gotten it right: First Look: Windows 7 Shapes Up as Microsoft’s Best OS Yet. You can pre-order Windows 7 now at Amazon. There are several packages ...
I posted about Apple’s Safari 4 browser earlier, but I don’t want to make our PC users feel unloved, so here’s a link to Amazon, where they’re now accepting pre-orders for Microsoft’s shiny new operating system Windows 7. Windows 7 has been getting good reviews in tech media; Microsoft may ...
Microsoft released version 8 of their web browser today: Internet Explorer 8: Home page. I haven’t installed it yet, so this may not be entirely fair, but based on past experience developing web software for Internet Explorer I admit to feeling a sense of dread.
Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Internet, Technology
Internet Explorer has a really really big security hole, and Chinese hackers are exploiting it like crazy: Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw. Update ASAP so we don’t have to block your IP address when your PC goes zombie.
Internet, Technology, Security, Hackers, China, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
If Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 is working well for you, you may want to think twice before doing the SP3 “upgrade:” Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3.
I was slightly ahead of the curve in my little rave against Internet Explorer 8 the other day, but now there’s a major developer war brewing over Microsoft’s “ultra standards compliant” web browser: Martian Headsets - Joel on Software.
How badly did Microsoft screw up the Vista “upgrade?” So badly, even the company’s top executives were upset: They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. Here’s one story of a Vista upgrade early last year that did not go well. Jon, let’s call him, (bear with me — I’ll ...
Well, I installed the beta version of Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8, touted as the most compatible version of IE yet, and LGF—which works almost identically in all other major browsers—is almost completely broken in this new “ultra-compatible” version of Microsoft’s hellish web-developer torture device: Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit. ...
The European Union is very jealous of Microsoft’s success: EU fines Microsoft record $1.3B. That’s B as in Billion. Maybe the EU should put all that rarefied brainpower of theirs to work and write their own Intel-based operating system and GUI, instead of forcing Microsoft to give away trade secrets ...
I’m going out on a limb to make a wild prediction: Bill Gates is going to regret saying this. “We made it way harder for guys to do exploits,” said Mr. Gates. “The number [of exploits] will be way less because we’ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in ...
Computers, Operating Systems, Technology, OS X, Vista, Windows, Microsoft, Apple