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Microsoft zei on Monday that it will postpone the release of Internet Explorer 9 in Japan.

The company issued a press release on Monday stating that due to the recent earthquake, it will be postponing the Japanese release of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft cites network bandwidth load and cutting back on company activities as the primary reasons. Microsoft states that this will not affect other versions of Internet Explorer 9, to be made available on March 14.

A powerful 9-magnitude earthquake and Tsunami devastated Northern Japan after striking the country on Friday afternoon. The aftermath...
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Microsoft has signed-off on the final RTM build of Internet Explorer 9, WinRumors has learned.

The software giant finalized its golden RTM build of Internet Explorer 9 as 9.00.8112.16421.110308-0330, which is set to be made available on March 14.


Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 team is planning to host a party during the South door southwest (SXSW) muziek and film festival in Austin, Texas. The party will be held on March 14 and will include free drinks and muziek performances from Yeasayer, The Head and The Heart, and Fences. Microsoft has sent several invites for a“special press pre-event”...
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At the start of this maand Adobe launched the Release Candidate of Flash 10.3 delivering privacy enhancements across the table, including for users running Internet Explorer 9 and IE8.

Now the final version of Flash 10.3 is available for download, and customers are advised to grab it and update as soon as possible.



In addition to the various enhancements and security patches contained, Flash 10.3 also makes it extremely simple for IE9 and IE8 users to remove Local Shared Objects (LSOs).

Also known as Flash Cookies, LSOs were outside the reach of Internet Explorer ahead of version 10.3 of Flash....
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Windows Phone Mango, the new flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system that should arrive in about two weeks, brings along a wide range of enhancements when compared to the vorige version of the platform, some of which were included in the new Internet Explorer Mobile.

It is the IE9 (Internet Explorer 9) Mobile browser that Microsoft included in the new OS iteration, with features and capabilities that are available on the desktop version of the application as well.

Microsoft managed to come up with a unified code for Internet Explorer on both the desktop Windows client, as well as on...
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Microsoft made a seconde Internet Explorer 10 platform voorbeeld available to developers on Wednesday.

The software giant is improving its HTML5 support with Internet Explorer 10. “Developers will be able to build even meer amazing sites and applications with IE10’s improved HTML5 support,” zei Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch. “As different browsers support developers using the same markup to achieve the same results with great performance, we can all realize the promise of HTML5 applications.”

Microsoft has geplaatst over 270 new tests to the Internet Explorer test center and submitted...
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Microsoft zei on Thursday that it has completed its Internet Explorer 9 Hotmail notifications feature.

The new functionality allows Internet Explorer 9 users to pin Hotmail and receive mail notifications. The icoon updates to toon the count of messages that have been delivered since u last accessed Hotmail, it then clears when u access your Hotmail Inbox. “We’ve been working on taking the volgende step and supporting notifications,” says Hotmail group program manager Dick Craddock. “We’re finishing the release of this feature today…when you’re signed into Hotmail and you’ve pinned...
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Microsoft’s big bet on Internet Explorer 9 with Windows 7 appears to be paying off.

The company released Internet Explorer 9 in March to Vista and Windows 7 users. Microsoft excluded Windows XP owners in a bid to convince users to upgrade to the company’s latest and greatest. Windows XP accounts for nearly 50% of all operating system usage share worldwide, making it the most widely used operating system. Microsoft’s competitors still actively support Windows XP with their latest browsers, allowing them to pick up additional usage share.

Despite the risks involved, Microsoft’s gamble appears...
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Microsoft revealed on Tuesday that its Internet Explorer 8 and 9 SmartScreen protection blocks between 2 and 5 million daily malware attacks.

The software giant revealed the figures in a blog post on Tuesday. Microsoft has found that 1 out of every 14 programs downloaded is later confirmed as malware. Microsoft’s SmartScreen technology has blocked meer than 1.5 billion attempted malware attacks according to Microsoft. “IE is still the only major production browser to offer this kind of protection from socially engineered malware,” zei Jeb Haber from Microsoft’s SmartScreen team. “Our...
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Internet Explorer changed their homepage to Internet Explorer 9 and thus changed the way u have to change your homepage to the homepage u want. It is easy to change your homepage on Internet Explorer 9; it just



takes a little time for u to learn the process.

1. Open Internet Explorer 9 on your computer. If u want it and u don't have it, download Internet Explorer 9 and prepare to change your homepage to the homepage u want.

2. Go to the website u want as your homepage. Go to the exact part of that website that u want to come up when u open Internet Explorer 9.

3. Look at...
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Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd today announced the availability of Internet Explorer 9 in 93 additional languages, including 11 Indian regional languages.


The Indian regional languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.

With this launch, a wider audience base will have access to Internet Explorer 9 in their native language.

"The availability of Internet Explorer 9 in Indian regional languages is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to promote local language computing in India, thereby taking IT to the masses," the firm zei in a statement.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft has had a presence in India since 1990. Currently, it has offices in 13 cities--Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.
Microsoft unveiled its Internet Explorer 10 platform voorbeeld on Tuesday.

The software giant also demonstrated Internet Explorer 10 running inside Windows 8. Windows Chief, Steven Sinofsky, took to the stage on Tuesday at MIX11 in Las Vegas to demonstrate an ARM version of Windows. Sinofsky showed the processor information but did not state whether it was a Windows 8 build of not. The Windows build featured an up arrow in the explorer window that Sinofsky revealed, also found in previously leaked Windows 8 screenshots.

Sinofsky’s further demonstration of an ARM based version of Windows follows...
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Microsoft claims that its recently released browser, Internet Explorer 9, is the most energy efficient amongst its rivals.

The software giant has been measuring browser power consumption and has churned out some interesting results. “We measure power consumption across six scenarios. These scenarios cover both todays HTML4 based Web and the HTML5 based Web applications of tomorrow. We allow each scenario to run for 7 minuten and look at the average power consumption over that duration,” says Walter VonKoch, Internet Explorer performance program manager.

Microsoft tested IE9, Chrome 19,...
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Microsoft has begun to compile final versions of Internet Explorer 9, WinRumors has learned.

The software giant has started compiling RTM escrow versions of Internet Explorer 9. The escrow builds mark the final stage of Internet Explorer 9′s development. Microsoft’s latest Internet Explorer 9 escrow build is 9.0.8110.16409. Microsoft historically RTM’s products less than a maand after they hit the RTM-escrow stage. Microsoft kicked off the RC-escrow stage of Internet Explorer 9 in early January before releasing a final RC version on February 10. The escrow stage means Microsoft is well...
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Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10 -- a desktop version and the Metro version, which is optimized for tablets.

Part of that optimization will be a plugin free experience, meaning Metro IE10 will be primarily HTML5 and will not support browser plugins, including Flash.


"The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web," writes Dean Hachamovitch, head of the Internet Explorer team, on Microsoft's official blog.

Microsoft's reasoning is eerily similar to Steve Jobs's legendary open letter on Flash from April...
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If u use an old computer, of have WindowsXP as your operating system, u may well be using Internet Explorer 6 as your web browser and are therefore not benefiting from the rich multimedia experience offered door today's meer modern browsers.

Microsoft has just released a critical update for Internet Explorer 6 which u should install immediately. u can get it door going to the Windows update website.

This will prevent your PC being vulnerable to the limited attacks that have recently featured in the news.

Isn't it high time u upgrade to the very latest browser, or, in the interim, install...
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Microsoft appears to be holding back rival browsers on Windows 7.

Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released in March to Windows 7 and Vista users. Microsoft ditched Windows XP users in a bid to shift consumers and businesses away from the legacy operating system. Windows XP still accounts for nearly 50% of all operating system usage share worldwide, making it the most widely used operating system. Microsoft’s competitors still target Windows XP with their latest browser offerings, allowing them to pick up additional usage share.

Microsoft’s risky gamble is working...
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Safari comes last.



Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser for preventing the execution of web-based malware, according to a NSS Labs test.

Windows Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome 12, Mozilla Firefox 4, appel, apple Safari 5 and Opera 11 were tested against 1,188 malicious URLs, with IE9 blocking 96 per cent of the URLs when the reputation filter was enabled. It also blocked an additional 3.2 per cent once its application reputation filter was enabled.

In comparison, Chrome caught 13.2 per cent, Firefox and Safari caught 7.6 per cent, while Opera caught 6.1 per cent of the live threats....
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 comes with an advanced security feature that makes it much safer than other Web browsers, including Google Chrome, according to a computer researcher.

Internet Explorer has long been a favoriete target of cybercriminals; security holes are regularly found in older versions of the populair browser, leaving it easily exploitable for a number of different attacks.

But with the March 14 release of IE9, Microsoft may have finally gotten things right, Ed Bott of the security website ZDNet says.

Better filters for bad files

Bott cites IE9's SmartScreen filters, which...
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