Posts tagged with ‘internet explorer’

Microsoft turns on automatic updates for everyone, time to ditch that version of IE6

For a long time, Microsoft has had the capability to force users to update to the most recent version, but they resisted from what I hear, because so many businesses had created internal applications that only ran on one specific version of IE, there was a lot of bitching. Bitch and cry all you want, MS is finally turning on automatic updating for everyone using IE to make sure you’ve got the latest version.

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Forget Black Friday, tomorrow is Update Your Parents’ Browser Day

No doubt his weekend, some of you are at your parent’s house or someone else’s parents house where you might be for a day or two, and these parents very possibly have been using either Internet Explorer or a really outdated version of Firefox or Netscape. Now’s your time. They think you’re some sort of computer god anyway just because you know how to reset a router and now it’s time to update their browser.

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Windows 8 Internet Explorer 10 Won’t Support Flash

Another giant of the software wold will soon be bucking Flash. It was announced via a developer blog that IE in Windows 8 will not support Flash, because it “…improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers.” (I feel like I’ve heard that somewhere else before.)

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Survey: Internet Explorer users are stupider than non-IE users

In a survey that’s no really all that surprising in its results, a non-scientific study by AptiQuaint found that in general, people who use Internet Explorer are stupider than people who use other browsers such as Firefox and Chrome.

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Internet Explorer 9 goes public March 14

If you’ve been waiting on pins and needles and you haven’t tried out the beta, you can officially download the real version of IE9 this coming Monday the 14th. Aren’t you so excited?

I’ve got the give Microsoft credit for taking big steps with its browser since 7, and I applaud their efforts to finally rid the world of IE6, but it’s still IE. Get Chrome instead.

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Internet Explorer 9 beta launches today and boy is it fast

Internet Explorer 9 beta launched today, and it looks like perhaps Microsoft has figured out that it needs to get out ahead of the browser game. I haven’t messed with it yet, because I have either OS X or Windows XP, neither of which are supported for IE9, but from all accounts, IE9 is fast fast fast, beating the pants off of both Chrome and Safari in non-Javascript function tests and is way out on the edge of supporting brand new CSS3 and HTML5 functions.

If you want to give it a spin, you can download it here.

Read more here at Wired about IE9

Internet Explorer 9 beta launches September 15, promises to be pretty

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will be officially launching the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco called “The Beauty of the Web”. Internet Explorer? Beauty? Ha! 

There aren’t really any details about IE9 yet, other than it’s Vista and Windows 7 only. And while IE8 is by far the best Internet Explorer ever, it still lags behind Chrome and Firefox, and it’ll still probably be decades before I’ll ever feel comfortable running anything named “Internet Explorer”, no matter what sort of promises or beautiful events Microsoft holds.

More here at Microsoft