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Mozilla updates fix critical Firefox flaws
News The company credited Mozilla developer Paul Nickerson for reporting this variant of a click-hijacking vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer by Liu Die Yu. Four are ranked by Mozilla as critical, one high, two moderate and the rest of the...
[September 25, 2008, 10:39]
Sun updates JavaFX and Java SE
News It now comes with support for 64-bit plug-ins, as well as support for Internet Explorer 8 browser and Windows 7. Sun has delivered updates to JavaFX, its platform for rich internet application development, and to Java Platform Standard Edition (SE).
[June 3, 2009, 17:05]
Apple users to get a taste of MSN
News Although the company is still finalising many of the details of the program, McDonough said Microsoft's plans already include using elements of its Entourage program for handling email and providing a customised browser based on Internet Explorer...
[August 22, 2002, 9:11]
Microsoft targets swept-up browser at broadband users
News But despite the changes, MSN Premium remains cosmetically similar to its previous incarnations and continues to be a splashier version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft is writing another chapter in its saga of trying to...
[August 27, 2003, 11:54]
US regulators look again at Eolas patent
News The patent also earned that school and company a $521m (£312m) judgment after a federal jury found that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser infringed on it. The thing that's exciting to me is that the (US)PTO sort of made the ruling on the basis...
[November 12, 2003, 8:00]
Microsoft: IE8 won't be finalised until 2009
News Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said on Wednesday. The next test, essentially a 'release candidate' version, will come in the first...
[November 21, 2008, 10:56]
Users warn of problems with IE8 Beta 2
News One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, users have reported issues with its installation and sites and services that are incompatible. While such behaviour is expected of beta software, some problems appear...
[August 29, 2008, 9:53]
Microsoft to start pushing IE8 browser
News Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows's automatic-update feature turned on. The software maker released the browser for download at the Mix conference in March, and had said...
[April 14, 2009, 8:28]
Apple, Microsoft, Google sued over preview icons
News In the suit, Cygnus Systems targets Google's Chrome; Microsoft's Vista and Internet Explorer 8; and Apple's iPhone, Safari and Mac OS X as patent infringers. A Michigan-based networking company on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft...
[December 29, 2008, 7:15]
UK to get Windows 7 at half US price
Blog It's also the version that includes Internet Explorer 8, rather than the now scuppered Windows 7 E products without the browser. After some digging around, CNET UK has found out that the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium will be sold at half...
[August 18, 2009, 14:49]
Microsoft's Kumo in limited public testing
News Rea said he started getting the new results using Live Search in Internet Explorer 8 using the release-candidate build of Windows 7. Microsoft has begun to broaden the testing of its next-generation search technology.
[May 18, 2009, 9:08]
Second Firefox 3.1 beta brings major changes
News Apple is promoting its Safari browser for Windows as well as Mac OS X; Microsoft, the leader of the market, plans to release Internet Explorer 8 in 2009; and the biggest change is the arrival of Google Chrome, an open-source project that, like...
[December 9, 2008, 10:47]
Google issues developer-orientated Chrome update
News Microsoft is on the verge of releasing Internet Explorer 8 (though it still hasn't convinced innumerable people to upgrade even to the current version 7), and the Webkit project that forms the foundation of Apple's Safari browser is being fitted...
[October 16, 2008, 8:45]
Safari and QuickTime get a refresh
News Without describing what kind of benchmarks he was using, he showed the WWDC audience a chart indicating that Chrome 2 is 5.3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8, but that Safari 4 is 7.8 times faster.
[June 9, 2009, 15:52]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog Elements of HTML 5 have already found their way into Internet Explorer 8 and the latest version of Chrome. The next version of the HTML web programming standard is unlikely to be finalised until 2022, according to a source within the web standards...
[June 15, 2009, 16:52]
Microsoft admits IE security alert lapse
News Microsoft has admitted that it knew about a security hole in Internet Explorer (IE) a full week before it accused a security firm of acting irresponsibly for publicly disclosing details of the exploit.
[November 19, 2001, 14:55]
New patches close 20 holes in Windows
News Another flaw affects a common file used by Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express and opens the way for the type of virus that executes when PC users click a specially crafted Web link. Qualys had previously found that it takes at least 30...
[April 14, 2004, 8:30]
Opera: Web standards could eclipse Flash
News Although HTML 5 is unlikely to be presented by the W3C in its final form until 2012 at the earliest, many of its features can be implemented today — as Microsoft has done in Internet Explorer 8. The next revision of the HTML web language will make...
[May 22, 2009, 16:33]
Microsoft: Windows 7 development on track
News He also demonstrated Internet Explorer 8, saying that it would be released in final form later this year. At Microsoft's financial analysts meeting on Thursday, Windows unit head Bill Veghte said that Windows 7 development remains on track.
[July 25, 2008, 8:36]
Security flaw found in Microsoft Office for Mac
News The flaw affects all Office programs but is only considered a critical issue on Internet Explorer for Mac OS 8, 9 and X, Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage 2001 and v. Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday that its popular Office applications for the...
[April 17, 2002, 8:50]
