Windows Vista users who have been testing the beta of Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 may be in for a surprise if they upgrade their Vista installation to Windows 7. What happens is that these users will notice that Internet Explorer 9 is no longer installed on their computer system. Instead, Internet Explorer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Windows

Question: Why are many companies still working with Internet Explorer, when newer browser versions are available for Windows? Answer: Because of applications and services that have been designed to work in Internet Explorer 6. Most of these applications are Intranet apps, and since they work, companies do not feel the need to pay to make [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

The tight integration of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the Windows operating system means that problems with the browser can have an impact on the functionality of the operating system, even if the browser itself is used scarcely or not at all. Our Repair Internet Explorer troubleshooting guide dealt with many problems that Internet Explorer users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

System administrators can use Group Policy rules of Windows to control the working environment of user and computer accounts. The Group Policy is often associated solely with enterprise, school, business and other organizations, when in fact it can be useful in smaller computer networks and even home environments. Many rules in the Group Policy center [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is an essential part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It usually is the first browser there is and even if users switch to third party browsers it remains installed on the computer system. Several third party applications use Internet Explorer’s rendering engine to display web contents in their interfaces which means that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Chance is that you have Microsoft Internet Explorer installed if you are a Windows user. It is there even if you do not use it. What makes things worse for many is the fact that a lot of third party applications use the scripting engine of Internet Explorer to display web contents. A popular example [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

A video recently posted on Microsoft’s TechNet Edge website (now unavailable but still available as a cached page) has caused some controversy on the Internet. In the video Microsoft IE product manager Pete LePage compares the Google Chrome way of handling user input in the address bar to Internet Explorer 8′s way coming to the [...]

Categories: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer

Microsoft has published the whitepaper “Enhancing the performance of Windows Internet Explorer 8″ recently which provides information about Internet Explorer 8 performance issues and how they can be rectified. The company is addressing five general issues that from their experience and statistics affect Internet Explorer 8 performance the most. The whitepaper concludes with two advanced [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Microsoft

Microsoft has released an out-of-band security patch for Internet Explorer which fixes a security vulnerability that has been actively exploited on the Internet. The patch has caused some confusion as reported by Ed Bott since the the security vulnerability that caused the emergency update to be released is only affecting Internet Explorer 6 or IE7. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Security