Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser will be able to wis the data websites collect about them using Flash cookies, the company has said.



Users that update their Flash players to the latest Adobe version will be able to wis the 'super cookies' if they use Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) of the meer recent version of the browser, IE9, Microsoft said.

Flash technology used on many websites can track users' activity in a way that is not currently removed when users change their browser settings to wis cookies.

"When we released IE8, we added [application program interfaces] for...

Internet Explorer 10 can seamlessly “go back in time” and render websites as if it was one of its predecessors, such as IE5, IE7, IE8, IE9.

Not that this is anything new when it comes down to major IE iterations. Microsoft remains committed to supporting legacy websites with new versions of IE just as it still supports legacy applications with fresh Windows releases.



Of course, while the IE team has always acted on a mantra of not breaking the web with new IE releases, but packing multiple rendering modes into the browser is not only about legacy sites.

Even sites tailored specifically...

Internet Explorer 9 offers the best protection against socially engineered malware according to the latest tests performed door NSS Labs focused on European users.

The results of NSS Labs’s “Web Browser Group Test Socially-Engineered Malware - Europe Q2 2011” meld are conclusive with vorige findings of the testing outfit, which consistently highlight IE as offering the best protection against socially engineered malware, even though Microsoft rivals contest the conclusions.

In the latest round of testing, NSS Labs looked at Google Chrome 10.0.648.204, Windows Internet Explorer 8 (build...

Tron has entered the hardware accelerated HMTL5 grid via Internet Explorer 9. The result is the new Disney Tron: Legacy digital book site, an immersive project which has taken an analog graphic novel to the volgende level door the way of modern web standards.

Disney Tron: Legacy was made possible through the collaboration between Disney Publishing House, Microsoft and Vectorform.

The amazing developers and designers at Vectorform have put together the digital flavor of the Tron comic book in less than a month, relying heavily on HTML5 and the power of HTML5 hardware acceleration that IE9 brings to...

Blink and you'll miss it. Microsoft has demonstrated Internet Explorer 10 at the MIX11 toon in Las Vegas. For around 30 seconden of the 90-minute talk, they mentioned that some of the demos were running on an ARM computer.

That's the full Internet Explorer 10, which would presumably require a reasonably complete version of Windows too, and not running on an Intel of AMD x86 processor. And running quite well too, door the look of things.

What's that strange smell coming from Intel headquarters? Oh, yes. It's fear.


NVIDIA was quick to fess up that the "demo was powered door the NVIDIA Tegra superchip."...

There should be little doubt that Internet Explorer 9 would be the winner of a comparison with Internet Explorer 8, security-wise, and Microsoft even has some palpable proof.

As the Redmond company released this month’s patches, Chengyun Chu, from MSRC Engineering had a look at how Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-050 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2530548) impacts IE9 and IE8.

Although MS11-050 is rated Critical for both versions of Internet Explorer, users running IE9 are meer secure door default compared to those that have yet to upgrade from IE8.

MS11-050 is designed...

Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that Internet Explorer 9 will launch on March 14.

If you’re a regular reader of WinRumors then you’ll already know that Microsoft is planning to launch Internet Explorer 9 on March 14. However, the software giant confirmed the exact time in a blog posting on Wednesday. “Exactly twelve months from the first Platform voorbeeld of IE9, on Monday March 14th we will celebrate the developers and designers who are making a meer beautiful web for all of us. We will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 for download beginning at 9 p.m. Pacific,” wrote...

Microsoft has announced some changes due in Internet Explorer 10 that promise to improve its HTML5 parsing with respect to other browsers, but the removal of certain features is causing a stir in the web development community.

In a post to the IEBlog, Internet Explorer lead Tony Ross detailed some of the changes that are due in version 10, which will underpin the Windows 8 operating system across both ARM and x86 platforms.

"The Web is better when developers can use the same markup and same code across different browsers with the same results," explains Ross. While that's a laudable aim, it's...

IE9 left no doubt that Microsoft understood the importance of supporting modern Web standards. But IE10, updated yesterday with the third platform preview, is the vehicle delivering much of that support.

Microsoft fleshed out IE10's impressive lijst of new technologies at Microsoft's Build conference for developers. New items on the lijst such as Web Workers, Web Sockets, 3D Transforms, Application Cache, and IndexedDB are muziek to the ears of many Web developers who want to make rich, interactive Web sites.



But it's important for a much larger developer group, too: IE10 also is a key foundation...

At least one in five Windows 7 customers worldwide have already upgraded to and are using Internet Explorer 9.

As of August 31st, 2011, no less than 20.4% of Windows 7 users had embraced IE9, according to Roger Capriotti, director, Internet Explorer Marketing, who shared usage statistics from Net Applications.

Worldwide, there are meer people leveraging IE9 for their daily browsing needs than any other browser, including the most recent releases of rivals such as Chrome and Firefox.

Chrome 13 is runner-up in terms of browser usage share on Windows 7 with 18.3%, while Firefox 6 takes home pagina the...

Everyone wants a fast internet browser, but we can't make all wishes come true. We have many things to do rather than waiting for a page to load but find it turns to a blank page. When it comes to slow internet browsers with the best connection possible, we must worried to know why are some versions of IE Slow. So if u want to speed up your internet explorer, here are some things u should do.

1. wis favorieten

Deleting unnecessary favorieten is one of the easiest ways of speeding up internet explorer. The meer favorite's linken u stored in the browser, the slower IE will be. So don't...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser turns 16 years old today.

The software giant originally launched Internet Explorer 1 on August 16, 1995. Microsoft licensed the Spyglass mozaiek browser for $2 million and modified it to create Internet Explorer. The two firms later settled an auditing dispute for $8 million in 1997 and Internet Explorer 7, released in 2006, was the first version without any mozaiek code. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share rose alongside the adoption of its Windows operating system on personal computers worldwide. The United States Department of Justice prosecuted...

Taking advantage of the amazing Pinned Sites feature available exclusively with Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7 has never been easier for web developers worldwide.

Not only is Microsoft doing the heavy lifting to help developers them get their sites to Pin on the Windows 7 Taskbar via IE9, but the resources the software giant is offering have been internationalized.

With BuildMyPinnedSite.com now localized for web devs in no less than 40 markets worldwide, they can leverage the tools, code and guidance provided free of charge in their native language.

“Today, we announce that BuildMyPinnedSite.com...

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.

A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out door Canadian firm ApTiquant.

It later emerged that the company's website was only recently set up and staff afbeeldingen were copied from a legitimate business in Paris.

It is unclear who was behind the stunt.

The story was reported door many high profiel organisations including CNN, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and Forbes.

Questions about the authenticity of the story were...

Microsoft is not at all shy about applauding Internet Explorer 9 as the best browser for business customers. I’d also argue that since IE appears to be the only valid option for companies, they might as well run the best version of the browser they can.

Superior security, boosted performance, increased productivity, top, boven stability and reliability, a plethora of new features (some of which incredibly useful and addictive, try Pinned Sites), backward compatibility, simple management of deployments, customized installations, etc. are just some of the reasons that make IE9 an IT professional’s...

BANGALORE, INDIA: For a cricket crazy nation with 1.2 billion cricketholics who eat, drink and breathe cricket, Internet Explorer 9 presents a unique opportunity of getting a quicker, richer web experience on Yahoo! Cricket through the unique 'Cricket Tab'.

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has announced a partnership between Internet Explorer 9 and Yahoo! Cricket, which allows u to view latest match scores, team information, photographs, videos and a lot more, at your fingertips just a click away with your own 'Cricket Tab'.

Senthilkumar Sundaram, director - Internet Explorer, Microsoft...