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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:15 AM

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 has been released

So far, so good on my systems. The install was quick, although there was a disconcertingly long period, during the restart after RC1 was installed, when my primary system displayed a black screen. The nervous or impatient could conceivably do some damage...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:14 AM

ALERT: Out of band security patch to be released tomorrow, 17 December at 10.00am Pacific time

Announcement here: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/12/16/advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx The patch resolves the actively exploited vulnerability that has been in the press so much in recent days, and which is...
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Monday, December 01, 2008 10:53 PM

Facebook doesn't like IE8

<sigh> This is what happens when the code used by a web site to detect (and adapt to) different browser versions is not properly written. According to Facebook I am running IE6 - I'm not, I'm running IE8 Beta 2 (as you can see from the screenshot...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:18 AM

Update about plans for Internet Explorer 8

This announcement was posted to the IE Team Blog a short while ago: "We will release one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009, and then follow that up with the final release. Our next public release of IE (typically called a “release...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:19 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Guidebook

Its all marketing spiel, but somebody may find it useful ;o) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=75973693-9a7f-4a42-9ddd-8b029361e766&displaylang=en&tm
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Monday, October 06, 2008 11:23 AM

Time for another quick look at InPrivate blocking

I thought I would take another look at what InPrivate is blocking on my primary work computer, now that I have been running IE8 Beta 2 for a while. My decision to take a look was actually prompted by a correspondent who told me about this newspaper article...
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Monday, September 08, 2008 10:38 AM

Uh oh... IE8 Beta 2, plus SBS RWW, plus a password that requires a working shift key = FAIL

Susan picked up on this one ...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:35 AM

Let's take a closer look at some IE8 features and option changes...

InPrivate browsing One of the new IE8 features that is garnering a lot of interest is InPrivate. Even before IE8 Beta 2 was released to the public, there was much speculation about the possibility of a new "porn mode" making its debut (thanks...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:39 PM

IE8 Beta 2 has been released...

Enjoy: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/ Upgrading notes: PLEASE READ THE RELEASE NOTES!!! Compability issues: HP Smart Web Printing (some versions); Google Toolbar (some versions); DriveLetterAccess (Roxio) (some versions); Skype...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:02 PM

FIX: msfeedssync.exe crashes (RSS synchronization - IE7 and IE8)

I have over 400 RSS Feed subscriptions that I keep an eye on, and which need to be checked regularly, sometimes every 15 minutes. A couple of days ago, msfeedssync started crashing every time a synchronization was due. The errors were: Faulting application...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:26 AM

IE8 - information posted to the IE blog

The Internet Explorer team have published 3 new articles about IE8 that are well worth a read. First, the SmartScreen filter: IE8 Security Part III- SmartScreen® Filter The feature that I want to call out about the SmartScreen filter is the antimalware...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:00 PM

Important information about Windows XP SP3 for Internet Explorer users

You will be unable to remove IE8 Beta or IE7 after installing Windows XP SP3 because Microsoft wants to make sure that you do not encounter a problem commonly known as " DLL Hell ". IE8 Beta 1 users You will NOT be offered Windows XP SP3 unless...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:54 PM

Welcome to the world of betas....

I received the following email today: " I need to uninstall ie 8 beta it sucks .. <<name removed>> addressremoved@thevillages.net Ie 8 is the worst program from Microsoft EVER " Our (un)friendly correspondent doesn't seem to...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:37 PM

Loosely coupled IE (LCIE) and Automatic Crash Recovery

Andy Zeigler posted a comprehensive article about Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE), a new feature of IE8 that is designed to improve the reliability (and scalability and performance) of Internet Explorer. He also briefly mentioned a benefit of LSIE called Automatic...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:35 PM

Yay, me.dium loves me....

Look what I've got :o) Yep, that's IE8 Beta 1 with Me.dium running..... Here's the official blurb re me.dium. I don't have time to check it out tonight... but will soon.... " Me.dium was selected as one of a small handful of partners...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 11:31 PM

It's fixed - I've got my Emulate IE7 button

So there I was, waiting for my laptop to reboot after a very frustrating evening - I'd been disabling or deleting every piece of third party software I could think of - beta, alpha, pre-alpha and (what the heck do you call pre-pre-alpha). Anyway,...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 9:30 PM

Welcome to Internet Explorer 8

Well, here's an interesting problem... I've seen it on two machines so far (a Vista x64 machine and a Windows XP machine). Both installs are missing the Emulate IE7 button - despite it apparently being impossible to remove... :o) I suspect that...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:32 AM

The IE8 beta *for Web Developers and Designers* is now available...

Let me emphasise Dean's words: " While anyone can download it, this is a developer beta. We released it at MIX for a good reason: great web experiences start with web developers, and we want to engage developers first. We believe that to build...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:26 AM

IE8 will render pages using the "super standards" mode by default

The team's announcement is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx I admit to being in two minds about this decision - originally web site designers needed to 'opt-in' to the improvements...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:09 PM

Batten down the hatches - we've got a new User Agent String

It always happens - a new version of Internet Explorer is released and some web sites break because they are *not* using best practice when detecting browser versions. Internet Explorer 8 will introduce a new UAS, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows...
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