Microsoft has announced plans to distribute their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous installments of Internet Explorer via Automatic Updates. The final version of Internet Explorer 8 was already distributed that way to users still running a release candidate or beta version of the web browser.
The distribution will be started in [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Microsoft is not only maintaining one public download repository on the Internet but several. Many of these download sites are offering downloads for a specific Microsoft product or group of users. Some are accessible from within Microsoft products while others are only accessible from a web browser. This makes it rather complicated to create an [...]

Tags: internet-explorer, microsoft, microsoft downloads, msdn, office, technet, windows downloads, wmplugins
Categories: Uncategorized, software

Microsoft’s new web browser Internet Explorer 8 has been released about two weeks ago and received more praise than criticism since then. Two non security related fixes were released today by Microsoft for Internet Explorer 8. The first fix deals with a problem encountered when running the web browser in the 64-bit edition of Windows [...]

Tags: ie8, internet explorer 8, internet explorer fix, internet explorer patch, microsoft, microsoft hotfix, windows hotfixes, windows patch, windows server 2003, windows server 2008, windows-vista
Categories: Windows, software

The MIX09 technology conference which concentrates on web design and development took place in Las Vegas from March 18 – 20, 2009. All of the sessions of the event have been recorded and made available online. A total of 122 sessions are freely accessible online and even available as downloads in various formats including Windows [...]

Tags: conference, microsoft, mix, mix 09, mix09, session recordings, silverlight, technology conference, web design, web development
Categories: Online Services, The Web

Microsoft made an announcement earlier today that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at noon EDT. The web browser can be downloaded from that time on from the official Internet Explorer 8 website in 25 language editions. Currently only the download of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is offered on that [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Microsoft has finally enabled POP3 email access for all users of their Hotmail email service. This essentially means that it is now possible to configure desktop email clients to access Hotmail to retrieve and send emails using the email provider. We already mentioned how to configure Hotmail POP3 but in a slightly different context as [...]

Tags: Email, hotmail, hotmail desktop email, hotmail email, hotmail outlook, hotmail pop3, hotmail pop3 access, hotmail smtp, hotmail thunderbird, microsoft, microsoft email
Categories: Email

The release candidate of Windows 7 comes with a surprising new feature in the Control Panel that will please many advanced users. A main point of criticism for users of previous Microsoft operating systems was the lack of uninstallation possibilities. Programs like Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer or Windows Search felt like excess baggage if [...]

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Categories: Windows, software