The question came up if the installation of Internet Explorer 9 affects another version of Internet Explorer on the operating system. The answer to that question was yes: Internet Explorer 9 replaces an older version of Internet Explorer during installation. Some users may have installed the beta of IE9 without knowing that, and some may [...]

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Microsoft has released the first public beta of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser a few minutes ago. This beta release is the first public version of IE9 with a user interface. And that user interface has changed a lot, compared to previous Internet Explorer versions. The new Internet Explorer 9 interface is minimalistic, [...]

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The beta release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is just around the corner. The first version of the browser with the new interface included will be available publicly on September 15. Users who have tested some of the preview builds that were offered without interface may have already noticed that Microsoft may be finally able [...]

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There has not been a lot of movement in the browser market in August 2010. Microsoft lost 0.34% with their Internet Explorer browser while Google gained nearly the same share (0.36%). Firefox remained stable and gained 0.02%, Safari gained 0.07% and Opera lost 0.08%. The picture looks different when individual browser versions are analyzed. Internet [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Internet Explorer is the black sheep of the browser community.  It’s about as standards compliant as the overweight kid in the school athletics team, and as insecure as Fort Knox with the front door open.  Annoyingly though it’s still out there and being used. Now there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.  Social networking [...]

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IE Care is an easy to use tool for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It offers repairing and cleaning functionality, and a so called IE security shield as an additional feature, but more about that later. The program displays three tabs in the main interface on startup that lead to Repair, Cleaning And Security related settings. Both [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, Software, Windows

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 [...]

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Cnet’s Seth Rosenblatt today published a story about privacy risks in private browsing modes of modern web browsers. He summarized the findings of a soon-to-be published report of researchers at Stanford University’s Computer Science Security Lab. The researchers analyzed the private browsing modes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. First [...]

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The Internet Explorer team just as expected released the fourth platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser. The preview still offers no “real” user interface, but lots of progress has been made under the hood. Hardware accelerating everything that is rendered on the user’s PC seems to have been one of the main [...]

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