Microsoft to Release New Internet Browser
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Microsoft Corp.  will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
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A company called GreenBorder that has already made some headway with security-conscious consumers with a freeware/commercial combo of browser virtualization software for Internet Explorer, today released a new edition exclusively for Firefox users on Windows systems.
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Mozilla Corp. said it will ship the next preview of the open-source browser before the end of the year.
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By John Markoff  Apple will make its Safari Web browser available for Windows- based PCs, opening a new front in its rivalry with Microsoft.
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A new version of Opera's internet browser includes voice control and can read highlighted text.
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The free Firefox Web browser, which has chipped away at the market dominance of Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer, has been readied for a full release including new features designed to make it more stable, backers of the program say.
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Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008 and said Wednesday that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won&#39;t &quot;break&quot; the Web.IE8 has passed the &quot;Acid2 Browser Test&quot; from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a browser renders a Web site in a certain way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports certain accepted Web standards.Microsoft posted a video about the browser passing the test on its Channel 9 Web site.Microsoft developed IE before some Web standards, such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and RSS,&#160;were developed, and so older versions don&#39;t support some current standards. Developers would write applications to work with IE rather than to support Web standards because the browser was the de facto standard for surfing the Internet for so many years. Microsoft also was lax in updating IE to meet the demands of Web standards because there was little competition in the browser market for years.With the release and subsequent popularity of open-source browser Mozilla Firefox three years ago, a browser&#39;s need to stay current with Web standards once again moved to the forefront. When Microsoft developed IE7, released in October 2006, the company had good intentions and decided to improve support of Web standards with the new release.However, Web sites that were created for older versions of IE didn&#39;t work properly on IE7. Microsoft hopes to remedy this problem so the situation is not repeated with IE8, according to an IE Blog posting attributed to Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft general manager on the IE team.&quot;With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing Web,&quot; according to the blog posting.Hachamovitch said Microsoft is taking a cue in lessons learned from making improvements to CSS in IE7 that &quot;made IE more compliant with some standards and less compatible with some sites on the Web as they were coded.&quot; The key design goal for IE8, he said, is compatibility with existing Web sites and Web standards supported in other browsers to provide a premium user experience.&quot;As a developer, I&#39;d prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers,&quot; according to Hachamovitch&#39;s post. &quot;Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.&quot;Microsoft said the final release of IE8 depends upon feedback received from the beta process.
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Updated browser that patches the problems is now available for download.
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The Mozilla Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Firefox browser, an open-source product that has generated lofty expectations that it will offer real competition to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Internet Explorer.
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New York - Microsoft Corp will roll out its long-awaited internet search service on Thursday, adding fresh competition to Google Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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That should have been said a long time ago. After Microsoft cemented a monopoly of the Web-browser market, it let Internet Explorer go stale, parceling out ho-hum updates that neglected vulnerabilities
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Mozilla gets ready to launch what may become one of the most significant steps in Internet browser innovations since the release of the Internet Explorer 4.0.
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Norwegian browser specialists Opera Software announce a version of their browser for Microsoft&#39;s Windows Mobile platform is forthcoming.
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Microsoft is planning to introduce its long-awaited Internet search engine on Thursday, a person knowledgeable about the announcement said.
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Firefox fans can get a preview look at the next version of their favorite browser now.
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The release of the Web browser by the Mozilla Foundation prompted Microsoft to break its silence about Internet Explorer, which won't get an overhaul until the next version of Windows is released in 2006.
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Microsoft on Thursday will launch its long-promised Internet search engine, which will compete directly with market leader Google, sources close to the company said Tuesday.