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Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer Will Die Next Year
I think it’s pretty safe to say that very few people still actively use Internet Explorer 11. In fact, it’s been pretty much redundant since the initial launch of Edge back in 2015. And by the time that did release as the semi-replacement, Google Chrome already had sewn up the…
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Microsoft Confirms End-Of-Life for Internet Explorer & Edge Legacy
With the relatively recent launch of Microsoft’s new (and excellent) Chromium-based Edge, it seemed that the writing was always on the wall for their older versions of web browsers, such as Internet Explorer or even the original version of Edge, to come to an end. Well, following an official post…
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YouTube Playback Sucks On Non-Chrome Browsers
Is Google Stifling Competition? According to Chris Peterson, Technical Program Manager at Mozilla, Chrome has an unfair performance advantage over other browsers when it comes to YouTube performance. Both the video sharing platform and Chrome web browser of course, being owned by the same parent company Google. Peterson claims that…
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Microsoft Slips Ad Generator Into Windows 7/8.1 Security Update
Microsoft has been getting more brazen every day as they continue to try to get users to upgrade to Windows 10. After making Windows 10 a recommended update for Windows 7 and 8.1 systems, Microsoft may have gone too far with their latest step. If Microsoft’s own documentation is to…
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Microsoft Edge Browser to Ditch ActiveX
Microsoft Edge, the browser formally known as Project Spartan to be bundled with Windows 10, will ditch ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHO) in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript. However, the replacement will not appear until after the release of Windows 10 this Summer. Internet Explorer 11 support, which still…
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The Latest Figures Show One Internet Browser Dominates Them All: But Which One?
When it comes to browsers there is always a lot of “usually” friendly rivalry between Microsoft, Mozilla and Google as the big three browsers jostle for top spot. However, with Internet Explorer as the default browser in all Microsoft operating systems of late, Microsoft is unsurprisingly still on top. That…
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Internet Explorer 9 and 10 Users Exposed To Unpatched Vulnerability
Microsoft revealed yesterday that Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10 both contain an unpatched vulnerability. Computer World reports that these vulnerabilities are mainly being exploited on Internet Explorer 10 by hackers. The distribution of Internet Explorer versions among users shows that 15.3% use IE9 and 15.9% use IE10 meaning around…
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Internet Explorer 11 Now Available For Windows 7
From today Microsoft is making its new Internet Explorer 11 browser available for download to Windows 7 users. IE11 was released alongside Windows 8.1 and was previously a Windows 8.1 exclusive, but now it has been made available to users of Microsoft’s most popular desktop operating system – Windows…
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Some Google Services Encountering Problems On IE11 And Windows 8.1
The Next Web reports that Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 was creating a load of problems and issues for some Google services. The Windows 8.1 rollout has been hit with some issues more broadly as users have experienced issues downloading the update (notably with it getting stuck at 50%)…
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Microsoft Adds Pre-Rendering To Bing Searches On IE11
We already explained a few weeks ago how Microsoft wanted to make Internet Explorer 11 the fastest internet browser, it claimed to be 30% faster than any other browser on Windows 7. Now we have learned that part of that faster package will involve pre-rendered searches on Microsoft’s Bing search…
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Microsoft Claims Internet Explorer 11 For Win7 Is 30% Faster Than Rivals
Over on its blog Microsoft has been bragging about how Internet Explorer 11 is 30% faster than all its rivals. Microsoft have made the Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview available for Windows 7 today and that new browser revision comes with a dramatically redesigned JavaScript engine. “Internet Explorer 11 advances…
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Bug Bounty Claimed By Google Employee!
Microsoft and other big browser companies often give out “bug bounties” for people who can discover exploits in their software. Microsoft offered up a rather large bug bounty for Internet Explorer 11 and is offering up to $11,000 for every security flaw people can find in the browser. Katie Moussouris,…
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