During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote last night, Microsoft announced it has partnered with ZeptoLab to bring you a free web version of the popular smartphone app Cut the Rope. It’s built entirely in HTML5 and is optimized to work in IE 9 in Windows 7. To play, go to cuttherope.ie in Internet Explorer [...]
If IE9 just isn’t cutting it for you, don’t worry –because Internet Explorer 10 is already on the construction line. Last week Microsoft released the first Platform Preview for IE10 and it brings vast improvements in CSS and layout support. While it isn’t much to look at just yet, the Platform Preview does give us [...]
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is still new on the market, and one of the greatest features offered is the ability to pin websites to the taskbar. When a website is pinned, the browser then treats it as if it were a separate application. Certainly, Microsoft’s marketing department has done a superb job promoting the feature, [...]
Microsoft’s latest release, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), is available for download. If you are still using IE8 or *cringe* IE6, go get the update! When installing IE9 you might have noticed something it did differently than your typical web browser, or rather, something it didn’t do. Internet Explorer 9 never asked to be your default [...]
Microsoft is going all out in promoting IE9’s new taskbar pinning feature. In doing so they’ve teamed up with some of the big names on the web in presenting special offers to Internet Explorer 9 users. To be eligible for these offers, the conditions are simple: pin the participating website to your taskbar, and use [...]
Pinned websites in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) are the premier feature that everyone is talking about. With pinned websites you can receive notifications, quickly navigate via the jump list, or control a webapp without even opening the page. Not all sites will have the full set of pinned features, since this requires that they’ve developed [...]
The offline installation files for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) are 20-40MB in size depending on which version you need. While this might not seem like a large download for everyone, if you are trying to load this on a 56K dial-up connection it could take a couple of hours. Instead, download it to a disk [...]
One of the biggest features missing from IE9 is a spell-checker. Microsoft might have overlooked this in an effort to promote productivity of their Online Office suite, or they might have just decided it was too much work to include it. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari all have spellcheckers; whatever the reason, Microsoft dropped the [...]
Remember back when Chrome cut support for H.264 video in favor of WebM? Well, yesterday the final build of IE9 was released, and it didn’t include support for WebM. Google saw this coming, and so they’ve already started work on a extension for IE9 that will add in WebM compatibility. The extension is still in [...]
We mentioned last week that it was coming. As of 9:00pm PDT today, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is available for download. IE9 will soon be hitting the the Windows Update download queue, or you can download it immediately from the link in this post. Microsoft hasn’t changed much, but they did make a few last [...]
On Friday both Microsoft and Google published an advisory regarding limited, targeted attacks. The exploit takes advantage of a loophole in Windows MHTML [MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) HTML], which is a format used to combine web page contents into a single file. Microsoft released a fix that locks down MHTML to prevent abuse, but it’s [...]
The results from the CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition are in. Despite the $20,000 prize offered up by Google, Chrome still remains unscathed. Safari was hacked in a matter of seconds, and Internet Explorer 8 was hacked using a combination of 3 different vulnerabilities. Apple’s iPhone was fell victim, and before the day was over, Mozilla’s Firefox [...]
Today Microsoft officially announced the date and time that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will move away from a release candidate and into the final version. On Monday March 14th at 9:00pm PST, IE9 will be available for download. Non-coincidently, this is the same day when approximately 1 year earlier Microsoft had launched the first IE9 [...]
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) has come a long way since first introducing their beta last September. After lots of testing, Microsoft is now distributing the first Release Candidate of the web browser. According to Microsoft, they are very close to the final version and this RC is “feature complete.” All that is left to do [...]
