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Microsoft gives Windows Mobile 6.5 a release date
Blog The upgraded phone OS, launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the start of this year, will have a heavily redesigned user interface and will include a new version of the Internet Explorer Mobile browser.
[September 1, 2009, 14:24]
Microsoft, Nokia in mobile Office alliance
News Those programs will be able to run inside Safari and Firefox in addition to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Microsoft is expected on Wednesday to announce a partnership with mobile giant Nokia to help get its Office software onto that company's...
[August 12, 2009, 9:53]
Microsoft shows off mobile phone-PC prototype
News He demonstrated word processing, multimedia playback and Web browsing using scaled-down versions of Internet Explorer, Word and Windows Media Player. Microsoft on Thursday showed a prototype of a mobile phone-based computer that could one day find...
[July 28, 2006, 10:40]
Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile 6.1
News The new version, which has been the subject of rumours for the past few months, boasts a significant overhaul of the Internet Explorer Mobile browser, as well as several other enhancements. According to Scott Rockfeld, the group product manager for...
[April 2, 2008, 10:23]
MS targets smart phones, pagers
News Mitsubishi will be the first company to introduce a phone with Microsoft's Mobile Explorer software in the United States. Two of the announcements relate to a smart phone device code-named Stinger and to a Mobile Explorer device, which have support...
[March 21, 2001, 8:32]
Photos: Windows Mobile 6.5 review
Reviews Internet Explorer Mobile The new Internet Explorer Mobile features a sliding scale to help you zoom in and out of pages. Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft Photo credit: Microsoft
[February 17, 2009, 7:26]
Windows Mobile 6.5: a first look review
Reviews Internet Explorer Mobile will support Flash and JavaScript — but not (yet) SilverLight. Internet Explorer Mobile With Windows Mobile 6.5, you'll get more features from Internet Explorer Mobile. Built on the Internet Explorer 6 engine, the mobile...
[February 17, 2009, 7:59]
Microsoft prepares for wireless Internet assault
News The feature phone will use Microsoft's Mobile Explorer browser, which supports HTML and WAP. While the feature phone will be more of a text-based browsing experience, the smart phone will offer more of a high-resolution graphical Web surfing...
[July 27, 2000, 13:08]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News The new version of Internet Explorer supports embedded multimedia content through Adobe's Flash Lite, but does not support Silverlight, Microsoft's rival technology to Flash. Also included is a new version of Internet Explorer Mobile, promising a...
[February 16, 2009, 15:39]
Opera finds that small is sweet
News With all Microsoft's riches and power behind it, Internet Explorer has dominated the Web browser market since Netscape's defeat in the late 1990s. For much of the last year, Microsoft has banged the drum for the arrival of Internet Explorer 7.
[October 11, 2006, 16:05]
Microsoft, Ericsson plan wireless Internet venture
News Ericsson will provide its wireless application protocol, or WAP, systems to Microsoft and will adopt the software giant's Mobile Explorer for feature phones. Microsoft had formally introduced the Microsoft Mobile Explorer software platform earlier...
[December 8, 1999, 15:13]
Inside Windows Mobile 6 review
Reviews You can now easily conduct Web searches with the revamped Internet Explorer Mobile and have one-click access to your Favorites and browser History. Internet Explorer Mobile Microsoft will again offer two versions of the operating system for mobile...
[February 9, 2007, 11:00]
Microsoft sets out latest tools for web developers
News Microsoft has this week used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 products. With Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari out there, we really don't...
[March 7, 2008, 15:45]
Comdex 2001: Opera 6.0 beta
News Although Microsoft's own Internet Explorer easily accessed MSN pages, other browsers -- such as Opera, Mozilla, Amaya and some versions of Netscape -- received error messages and recommended that people "upgrade" to Internet Explorer.
[November 14, 2001, 17:00]
HTC unveils the Touch Diamond
News The Touch Diamond comes with the Opera mobile browser installed as default instead of the mobile version of Internet Explorer, marking a sea change for HTC Windows Mobile devices. This is because, although Windows Mobile 6.1 has been launched...
[May 6, 2008, 18:02]
Opera aims for speed over substance
News The company's browser, which it has long-claimed that it loads pages substantially faster than Internet Explorer, has been almost completely rewritten to speed page loads even more and to support a wider variety of Web standards.
[November 13, 2002, 11:09]
Web front-ends versus Windows
News One could argue that this has resulted in replacing one Microsoft technology (Windows) with another (Internet Explorer). And certainly the move to Internet Explorer has meant a massive move away from Netscape.
[March 4, 2003, 8:47]
Google: The browser is the computer
News Google's Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering, noted that the four modern open standards browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera) are all adopting some HTML 5 technologies as they become more stable, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer...
[May 28, 2009, 9:31]
Exploit turns iPhone into a spy tool
News This was the same lesson which Microsoft had so many issues with when they intertwined Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, and it's something which they are now digging themselves out of," security analyst, James Turner...
[November 22, 2007, 8:22]
Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
News Gates said that Microsoft is already working on the next two versions after Internet Explorer 7, which is due later this year with Windows Vista. On Monday, Microsoft released several product updates, including a "refresh" of the Internet Explorer...
[March 21, 2006, 7:55]
