Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived
ReadWriteWeb — After more than a year of beta testing, Microsoft released version 8 of Internet Explorer today. IE8 is definitely a better browser than IE7, and features quite a few important new functions, including accelerators, and web slices. IE8 is also significantly faster than IE7 and features a large number of new functions that make browsing the web easier and more secure. Sponsor We described most of IE8's new features in previous posts about the beta and release candidates, ...

IE8 Launches: Do Web Workers Even Care? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Microsoft launches IE8 to the public this morning; you can now download it from the Microsoft web site. But do most web workers even care? Despite using a Windows machine, I haven’t touched IE for weeks. I downloaded the release candidate to check it out but since then I haven’t opened it up once. ...

Get Yer IE 8, Get Yer Brand New IE 8!
Homotron.net — ... Today you'll find Internet Explorer 8 ready for download from Microsoft for various operating systems, replete with security improvements, private browsing, and of course better adherence to common Web standards. ...

Hands on with Internet Explorer 8
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... make it all better. I don't have a great solution here. Microsoft is right to take a more standards-oriented approach to the web, but it is about to alienate, anger, and confuse millions of people who don't understand what's happening, and who frankly don't care, either. They just want the web to work, without fuss and without complaint, and for all of those users out there, well, my advice is to use a different browser, one that won't give you so many headaches. Want to try anyway? It's available here . Full disclosure: Yahoo! Search Suggestions are available as an option ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Seeks Dominance
TechWeb — Microsoft on Thursday officially released Internet Explorer 8 , calling it "the best solution for how people use the Web today." It is, unfortunately for Microsoft, not the only solution for using the Web today. Microsoft has been steadily ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Seeks Dominance
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Microsoft on Thursday officially released Internet Explorer 8 , calling it "the best solution for how people use the Web today." It is, unfortunately for Microsoft, not the only solution for using the Web today. Microsoft has been steadily ...

What's the coolest thing about IE8 (besides p_rn mode)?
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog — My favorite feature so far in Internet Explorer 8, the new browser that Microsoft launched today: Fine-tuned cookie handling. And not just because I'm still recovering from the latest Girl Scout fundraiser. It's a good habit to purge the temporary files, cookies and other browsing detritus that can bog down your system. But it's also a headache, because you can end up zapping useful cookies that remember passwords and settings at Web sites you use regularly. With IE8, you can clear the cache of temporary files, cookies and other browsing detritus, but ...

Google Tests Enhanced Suggestions for IE8
Google Operating System — Internet Explorer 8 has been released today and there are many reasons to download it if you use a previous version of IE. Microsoft has finally released a browser that complies with web standards, tabs run in separate processes, the annoying modal dialog for finding words in web pages has been replaced with a less intrusive bar, the search box includes suggestions, the browser is faster and more polished. ...

Web Search Tips for Internet Explorer 8
Google Operating System — Internet Explorer 8 has many useful features that will improve the way you search and browse the web, even though not all of them are innovative. If you like to search from the address bar, you can now get suggestions from the default search engine if you prefix your query with "? ". IE8 also shows previously visited pages that match the text you typed, but it only searches the titles and the URLs. ...

Microsoft throws IE8 as a life-saver in the tightening web browsers war
PalmAddicts — ... Did you notice Microsoft finally launched IE8 just few days ago? Not much of a buzz was generated from the official release of Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, in fact I even noticed more news about the RC (Release Candidate) or Beta version of IE before this rather than the final version. ...

Five Best Web Browsers [Hive Five]
Lifehacker — ... . Internet Explorer [image] Windows only: Internet Explorer still commands a healthy chunk of the browser market, mostly by its shipping with the most popular operating system on Earth and fitting, if not exactly elegantly, into corporate computer plans. While many or most IE users stick with it for lack of wanting to try something else, Lifehacker readers definitely don't fall into that crowd the majority of readers who voted in favor of Internet Explorer are sporting Internet Explorer 8. By contrast, nearly 20 percent of those surfing the web right now are using Internet ...

IE 8: Losing ground and attracting complaints
UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping — ... the current complaints and the company’s response to them is yet to be seen, however, it is undeniably even if not unpredictably a thorn in its side once again. Last week Safari, Firefox and IE8 all failed to resist hack attempts at Pwn2Own with Safari performing the worst out of the bunch. Interestingly the only browser that wasn’t cracked over the course of a few hours (Safari gave up in minutes!) was Google Chrome, although vulnerablities were found to be present. If you’d like to download IE8 and check it out for yourself then what are you waiting for! If you like what ...

The magic word driving Microsoft open source strategy
Open Source — Marketplace. It’s a good word for hard times. The implication is that, while open source may be cool and wonderful, aligning with Microsoft can make you some money. As Max Bialystock said, “Money is honey.” All this came out during the company’s MIX 09 event, at which the launch of IE 8 was supposed to be the headline. Instead the new browser was lost in a larger code dump, as described by TechRepublic’s Justin James, while the real action was taking place at ...

Windows Live Products Nominated For Webware 100 Awards
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... of devices, synchronized folders, and cloud storage. Microsoft Silverlight helps developers “light up the web” with richly interactive web applications that work across platforms and browsers. Search & Reference (Vote!) Live Search gives you fast, relevant results… plus gorgeous photos on the Search page. Browsing (Vote!) Internet Explorer 8, faster, easier, safer browsing—and have you tried the new ...

Microsoft to push IE8 as high priority update next week
TechSpot — ... released in January and get it manually here . Microsoft has already pushed the final version of Internet Explorer 8 via Auto Update to customers who had installed the beta version of its browser.

Internet Explorer viral video taps Microsoft's funny bone
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Another factor that certainly didn't help is the lack of publicity given to the video by Microsoft. You can find a link to it buried somewhere on the product page for Internet Explorer. But outside of that and its premiere at a conference, the video, which comes from the same agency responsible for last year's Mojave Experiment TV ads, has relied solely on word-of-keyboard for distribution, through channels like Twitter and e-mail. ...

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 8?
LiewCF.com — ... You have installed Internet Explorer 8 but feel disappointed and want to uninstall it? Here are the instructions to uninstall IE8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. ...

Home.live.com: Is This The “More”? Web Slice For What’s New With Your Network
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... *Web slices are a feature of IE8, should you not have IE8 yet please download and install it from the Internet Explorer homepage. ...

Web Slice on Windows Live Home has gone live!
Redmond Pie — ... subscribe to, and which enables you to see when updated content—such as the current temperature, or a changing auction price—is available from your favorite websites. Once you have subscribed to the Web Slice, it appears as a link on the Favorites bar. When the Web Slice is updated, the link on the Favorites bar will appear with bold formatting. You can then click the link to see the updated content. Web Slice is feature of Internet Explorer 8 which can be downloaded for free from ...

The Beginning of the End for Tabbed Browsing?
Switched — Mozilla Labs' Firefox wasn't the first browser ever to use tabbed browsing (that award went to the Opera browser back in 2000), but it did beat Internet Explorer to the punch. In fact, tabbed browsing was one of the features that set Firefox apart from its Microsoft-developed competitor. Now, ironically ...

Oops. Bing Is Now Your Default Search Engine On IE6, Whether You Like It Or Not
TechCrunch — For years, Microsoft has tried to shrug off its reputation as a monopolistic tyrant. Today comes news that seems to undermine those efforts pretty badly. The Next Web reports that users of Internet Explorer 6 are being forced to use Bing as their default search engine — even if they’ve manually switched their preference to another search provider, like Google. Attempts to switch the browser to something other than Bing results in an error message. Now, let’s set aside the fact that IE6 is a scourge on the web that opens users up to a wide array of critical security issues and forces developers to ...

Why Opera 10 Could Make Firefox an Endangered Species
Internet Evolution: — ... (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s Internet Explorer 8 are all quite fast. Which is fastest? It depends on what page and what kind of content you’re loading (my own personal testing indicates Opera holds a slight edge in Java script; CSS-heavy pages might barely favor the new Firefox; and heavily trafficked pages tend to do well in Internet Explorer 8). Notably, Firefox and Opera both support most of the new, richer Web standards like CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XML, and data URIs, some of which Microsoft’s IE 8 fails to directly support (such as SVG). So, ultimately the browser ...

Apple's Intros Speedy iPhone for $199
Contentinople: — ... browser at the conference, available on both Macs and Windows PCs. Apple said in today's announcement that Safari 4 runs the new Nitro JavaScript engine eight times faster than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8 and three times faster than the Mozilla's ...

WWDC Recap :: Safari 4 Released
The Mac Lawyer — ... .  In addition, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance, loading pages 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.  Safari 4 will run as a 64-bit application under OS X Snow Leopard, which will further boost the performance of the Nitro JavaScript engine. ...

Microsoft unveils yet another ad -- for Internet Explorer 8
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... The new features in IE 8 "accelerate the task at hand with fewer clicks and less frustration, blurring the lines between services and browser," Microsoft says in a white paper you can download on its IE site. ...

Dean Cain Stars in Awkward Internet Explorer Ads
Switched — Somewhere in the land between 'uncomfortably funny' and 'trying too hard' sits Microsoft's new commercials promoting Internet Explorer 8. Choosing ...

News Bits: Arrrrr! Gaming Factory Buys Pirate Bay
Contentinople: — ... named former Genentech executive David Ebersman chief financial officer. He succeeds Gideon Yu, who left the social networking site in March. Looking to generate some buzz for its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, ...

MSFT Wishes You Happy Porn Browsing in New Vomit-Filled Video, Then Retracts Ad
ReadWriteWeb — Under waves of ever-increasing competition from Mozilla, Safari, and Google, Microsoft has released a series of PSA-style online videos to promote Internet Explorer 8. Featuring onetime Lois and Clark actor Dean Cain (who has apparently become the poor man's Bruce Campbell), the ads are uncharacteristically hip and discuss such real-world Internet problems as the fear of missing something (a.k.a. insomnia by social media) and the fear of your S.O. finding your porn cache. However, at least one of the video was just too cool for Microsoft. ...

Browsing YouTube with IE6 at Work? Those Days May Soon be Over
ReadWriteWeb — ... of Internet Explorer now, and Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera offer great alternatives. Slowly, however, we are seeing that web developers are fading out support for IE6, and the latest service to join this movement is Google's YouTube. According to some, a message now appears on YouTube when you access the site with IE6, informing users that the service will be "phasing out support for your browser soon." The logos of Google Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 appear right next to the text. Sponsor Who Uses ...

Blerp is now out of alpha, declared “real milestone for us” by Steve Hoffman, CEO of Rocketon
Josh Chandler — ... The idea of Blerp is that users are able to build an interactive multimedia layer onto their favorite website without being a site administrator via web browser plugins which have been launched for Internet Explorer and ...

Microsoft Explains Why They Can't Pull The Plug on IE 6
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.” Microsoft has stated that they plan on keeping Extended Support for XP until April 8, 2014 – so if you’re an IE6 user, you’ve got roughly four more years to enjoy your ancient web browser. But, if you are interested in making today the day you upgrade, be sure to check out these great alternatives! Firefox 3.5 Google Chrome Internet Explorer 8 Do it for the children.   Image Credit: ...

Internet Explorer 6, the browser that will not die
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Good news for fans of Internet Explorer 6, the version of Microsoft's online browser that debuted in 2001. Even though the company is now up to its eighth version of the browser, it will continue to support IE6 until at least 2014. Not that Microsoft is happy about that. "Friends do not let friends use IE6," said Microsoft's Amy Barzdukas, in an interview with BBC News. The company wants Internet users to upgrade to IE8, which is also free. And many developers don't want to bother making their products conform to IE6. Mark ...

14 Alternative Browsers That Are Not IE6
Mashable! — ... If you’re a staunch supporter of the IE lineage and want to stick with it, then there’s no reason not to upgrade to the latest version, Internet Explorer 8. It offers better web standards compliance and enhanced performance when working with dynamic sites built with AJAX, which in this day and age tend to be a majority of the great social sites we use daily. ...

Google Chrome OS to Feature Single Sign-On for Chrome Browser
ReadWriteWeb — ... Microsoft has come under fire for "bundling" their web browser, Internet Explorer, with their operating system. In fact, the issue has led to the European Union's requiring that the company ...

In Case You Forgot: IE6 Still Holds 25% of the Browser Market
Mashable! — Time flies fast, and new browsers replace old ones. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and, of course, even Internet Explorer have been upgraded and updated countless times in the last couple of years. All of this makes it easy to forget what browser is still dominating the market. According to Net Application’s Market Share data, that browser is Internet Explorer 6, released in August 2001. How can this be? With all the recent campaigns against Internet Explorer, ...

16 Fabulous Web Browser Options
SitePoint — ... Internet Explorer: As much as designers bemoan the fact that Internet Explorer 6 haunts their nightmares, we’re talking about Internet Explorer 8 in this particular case. IE8 is more up-to-date on Web standards, handles AJAX and is a vast improvement over all of the previous versions of this mainstay of the browsing world. ...

Browser Wars: Does IE8 Change the Game?
Inc.com — ... Built into Windows 7 or available as a free download for other operating systems, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) offers a number of improvements and new features to go up against the likes of competing browsers such as ...

Windows 7 networking guide
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — I've been looking a lot lately into high-end Windows 7 networking features like URL Quality of Service (QoS)-based traffic management and Secure Remote Connect . There is a lot to like here, and yes I am a Linux guy saying that, but I've also noticed that many of Windows 7's best networking features are only available if you use Windows 7 Enterprise Edition . Furthermore, to get most of these high-end business features to show their stuff you'll also need Windows Server 2008 R2 on the server end. I find this more than a little annoying. Microsoft's business has always been about locking users in to buying the ...