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IE 4: A fundamental shift?
News But whatever the excesses trumpeted by Microsoft's marketing machine, IE 4.0 is different. The product merges the Internet browser with the operating system, making IE 4 the browser for both local and Web content.
[September 30, 1997, 9:45]
A Year Ago: IE 4 - A fundamental shift?
News But whatever the excesses trumpeted by Microsoft's marketing machine, IE 4.0 is different. The product merges the Internet browser with the operating system, making IE 4 the browser for both local and Web content.
[September 30, 1998, 6:23]
New security hole found in IE 4
News The L0pht Heavy Industries report details a method of compromising IE 4.0/4.01 involving a "heap overflow" when accessing a type of URL with the prefix "mk:". The user is equally at risk irrespective of their IE "security zone".
[January 15, 1998, 18:37]
New IE 4 bug bites
News The bug, discovered this week by a Colorado programmer, lets certain Java applications send and receive images on the Internet through the Microsoft browser. The hacker must know the location and site of the image he or she wants to alter.
[August 11, 1997, 9:57]
BanPopup
Downloads BanPopup stops pop-up windows for almost all popular browsers( IE 4.x, IE 5.x, IE 6.x, Netscape 4.x and Netscape 6.x ) . Banpopup does not require any tedious setup. Just download and install and you can start to wipe out those annoying pop up...
[April 25, 2003, 8:00]
New Microsoft browser is 'lite'
News While anyone will be free to download the browser or full installs of IE 5.0, users will first need to register on Microsoft's Site Builder Web site in order to do so. The developer releases won't look very different from IE 4.X, since most of the...
[June 12, 1998, 10:00]
End of support for Windows 98 sparks IE 6 scare
News The end of support for Windows 98 sparked alarm among users of a UK online bank on Friday after it issued a notice saying that Microsoft was about to stop downloads of Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6) from its Web site.
[June 6, 2003, 15:43]
Author makes more mistakes than he indicates
Talkback Both i.e.id est) and i.e.exempla gratia) precede examples; you use IE when your list is complete and exhaustive (ie when every possible correct outcome is investigated), but e.g.when the list is incomplete (e.g.when putting out a sanctimonious...
[September 18, 2009, 9:46]
IE 6 gains foothold in browser market
News IE 6, released 27 August, showed a fast adoption rate in the week after its launch, StatMarket, a division of audience measurement service WebSideStory, said Wednesday. StatMarket said that although IE 6 had a "strong" start, it expects a low...
[September 7, 2001, 9:32]
IE5 Launch: Microsoft introduces kinder, gentler IE
News IE 5, set to launch today (dowload it from ZD Downloads later today), will include a few new features that will automate Web surfing or save users time -- including Autocomplete, which automatically fills out Web forms; a "go" button, for newbies...
[March 18, 1999, 7:24]
Microsoft on Trial: IE bundling debated internally
News Both the Memphis and the NT team are totally frustrated with the IE 4 situation: the code quality is lower than we can take, they are being driven to different objectives on when they have to fix bugs in Memphis or NT," Allchin wrote in an e-mail...
[January 14, 1999, 8:54]
Mozilla 1.0 review
Reviews There's even a skin on XulPlanet that makes Mozilla look very much like IE, if that's your cup of tea. In IE, those ads temporarily hide part of the page, then go away. ZDNet Labs ran Mozilla through four speed tests to see how it measures up to...
[April 29, 2002, 15:55]
New cumulative Microsoft patch fixes two critical threats
News MS02-015: This applies to IE 5.01 through 6.0. MS02-015-Critical: This is a cumulative patch for IE 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0, so the threat levels for the various vulnerabilities vary, but at least two of them are rated critical by Microsoft.
[April 16, 2002, 17:03]
Browser shoot-out: IE 7 v Firefox 2 review
Reviews IE 7's installation recommended that we back up important files, close all programs, and eventually restart, while Firefox asked us only to close the old Firefox. Firefox's open-source status and myriad add-ons give it a community edge over IE 7.
[October 31, 2006, 8:08]
New front opens in Web standards war
News Sixty-six percent test for IE 5.0, 47 percent for IE 4.x, and 43 percent for Netscape 6. Macromedia, for example, said that 84 percent of its Dreamweaver users test their sites for Netscape's 4.x browsers, followed by 73 percent testing for IE 5.5.
[July 12, 2001, 12:45]
IE suffers minor popularity setback
News Since 4 June, IE has witnessed a 1 percent change from 95.48 percent of all Internet users in the United States to 94.16 percent on 9 July. Though WebSideStory admitted that its conclusions on FireFox's rise in particular were based on...
[July 14, 2004, 11:10]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback IE automatically pops up windows of porn sites even when I am on the computer with my Granddaughter of 4 years old. HELP is needed to stop this IE porn invasion! I am so fustrated by Internet explorers pop-ups of porn.
[May 17, 2004, 20:40]
Author keeps removing comments pointing out their own errors.
Talkback Both i.e.id est) and i.e.exempla gratia) precede examples; you use IE when your list is complete and exhaustive (ie when every possible correct outcome is investigated), but e.g.when the list is incomplete (e.g.when putting out a sanctimonious...
[September 16, 2009, 19:55]
Microsoft: IE hole worse than reported
News A representative of Microsoft, which has come under fire for its security policies, said the company had changed its original rating of a flaw in IE versions 5.5 and 6 as a result of comments posted to the Bugtraq online bulletin board by a...
[December 9, 2002, 8:19]
Intel deal threatens OS 9 support
Talkback I can't run IE 4 and Netscape 3 any more! Oh no! This is outrageous! Jobs is EVIL! The sky is falling!
[June 7, 2005, 17:22]
