Microsoft stresses backward compatibility for IE8
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Microsoft is looking to balance backward compatibility with Web standards in Internet Explorer 8 by enabling an optional "super standards" mode in the browser. Developers were divided over whether that's a good idea.
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An exploit discovered yesterday by security consultancy Sunbelt and verified by Microsoft this afternoon involving the Vector Markup Language (VML) library in Windows could potentially affect not only users of Internet Explorer, but also of the current beta of Office 2007.
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A fix for a serious flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been released early to combat escalating attacks.
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Microsoft tells corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way in February. Here's how to avoid it if you wish.
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Microsoft has offered a technical workaround for Internet Explorer users who have found their browsers crashing after installing a recent set of security patches.Last Tuesday,&#160;Microsoft issued a critical security update for its browser software, fixing bugs in the browser. But soon after, users began reporting that IE would crash while visiting certain Web sites. These users would be forced to restart the browser after receiving an &quot;Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and must close&quot; message.Microsoft now says that the problem is not widespread and affects certain custom installations of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, Service Pack 2.Customers who experience this problem can fix it by making changes to the Windows registry, described in this Knowledge Base article.Microsoft did not say what kind of customization would cause the bug, and company representatives were not immediately available for comment.Some newsgroup users are speculating, however, that the issue may be related to antivirus software. Symantec and McAfee users who have been experiencing the problem have been able to resolve the issue by uninstalling the security update and then uninstalling their antivirus software, installing the update and then reinstalling their AV products, said Frank Saunders, a Windows user who has been following discussion of the issue.The Internet Explorer patch associated with this problem -- MS07-069 -- is considered to be the most important of last week&#39;s updates because it fixes four critical vulnerabilities in the browser.
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Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year.
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Will a trifecta try at fixing Internet Explorer patch be the charm?
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Microsoft has made the decision to use the Word HTML rendering engines for both the reading and composing of messages within Outlook 2007, a decision that has been criticized by those who use HTML e-mail frequently. Now, the company is attempting to perform damage control.
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An update to Office 2008 will address glitches in the installation process, Microsoft says.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month. The update was made available last week on on Microsoft's Web site, according to a blog entry on IEBlog, which is written by the IE team at Microsoft. This update addresses an issue some users experience when navigating to a page with multiple frames or where frames are being navigated simultaneously, according to the post by IE Program Manager Steve Reynolds. This kind of navigation occurs when the IE phishing filter, which attempts to block access to sites that may try to defraud Web users, evaluates a Web page when a user navigates to it. The result is multiple simultaneous evaluations for the same page, Reynolds wrote in his post. In addition to being available on Microsoft's Web site now, the company also will release the patch later this month for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Phishing filter performance is not the only complaint IE 7 users have had since the final version was released in October. Frequent crashes and other performance problems such as excessive memory consumption that results in slow page loads have been reported.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has released a patch for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that will boost the brand-new browser's performance on some Web sites. Some users had reported that the new phishing filter had been slowing down the PC's performance as IE evaluated the security of Web pages that contained a lot of frames. "When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to visit a Web page, the computer may respond very slowly as the phishing filter evaluates Web page contents," Microsoft said in a note published Tuesday. MicrosoftÂ introduced the filterÂ in IE7,Â released in mid-October, as a way of warning Web surfers when they might be visiting untrustworthy Web sites. The new patches are for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 versions of IE7, but not for users running the browser on Windows Vista.
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It&#39;s official. Microsoft recently stated definitivelyâand contrary to rumorsâthat there will be no new versions of Internet Explorer for users of older versions of Windows.
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I can't live without IE Also in this week's column:â¦
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Mozilla will patch Firefox but Microsoft won't update IE--and each points fingers for the problem.
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In response to the growing number of viruses infecting computers, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has suggested that users consider alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. But the agency did not recommend that users steer clear of Microsoft products, the spokesman said, refuting a press release issued Tuesday by browser developer Opera Software ASA.
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IE exploit code could boost risk of browser mishaps. Microsoft says teamwork makes for better defenses.
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Editor - FirstScience.com. I have been experimenting of late with various internet browsers as potential replacements for Microsoft Internet Explorer.