Unpatched Microsoft Flaw Leaves IE6 at Risk
A vulnerability in as-yet unpatched Microsoft software poses a more severe threat to Internet Explorer 6 users than those on the next version of the browser, security vendor Symantec has warned.
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4.8.2008 Google brings Chrome rendering engine to IE6, 7 and 8
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It's an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should.
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22.9.2009 Windows Mobile 7, the Next-Generation Mobile Platform
We all know Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, if not from using it, at least from what we've heard about it.
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15.3.2009 Free XP Virtual Machine image for IE6 web development
Different versions of Internet Explorer are unable to run side-by-side on a single Windows machine without patching various files.
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2.12.2006 Compatibility Issues When Surfing in IE7? Use User Agent String Utility to Spoof or Simulate as IE6
Although almost all websites has supported Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), the latest generation of popular web browser from Microsoft, but there are still some very few Internet sites that are still not updating the web server configuration for Internet Explorer 7 compatibility, and are not accessible by IE7 users and blocked the Internet surfers from viewing the web pages properly when using IE 7.
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21.11.2006 Internet Explorer 7 running side by side with IE6. (standalone)
If you already have Internet Explorer 7 installed you might be interested in
Multiple-IE . An installer for the standalone versions of IE6, IE5.5, IE5, IE4 & IE3!
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11.12.2006 Microsoft: IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE7 in Vista
As in the case of the inhouse competition between Windows XP and Windows Vista, due to its prolonged support strategy, Microsoft is also one of its most fierce and stubborn competitors on the browser market.
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6.12.2007 IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Mobile gambler PC
Microsoft's Not the Only One Doing Mobile Mail
The same day the beta invites started going out for Windows Live Mail Mobile,
Google launched Gmail Mobile. So far, Gmail Mobile is supporting relatively few cell phones and PDAs and only those in the U.S.. But wider coverage is coming soon, Google claims. And you can get
Gmail Mobile on your Blackberry, too. And speaking of Google, it's sounding like Microsoft's nemesis bested Microsoft in the contest for whose search engine would power Google search, going forward. As part of that deal,
Google reportedly will invest $1 billion in AOL, in exchange for a five percent stake.
microsoft - comments - 19.12.2005
More info on Windows Mobile 6
Loke is blogging from Barcelona. He beat me to posting the announcement, however since I am going to bed and he is likely just waking up, you will find all updates for the next few hours on his blog.
windows - comments - 12.2.2007
Windows Mobile Is an Also-ran
Today, Microsoft's CEO wasted time defending Windows Vista and slamming Google Apps. What he needed to do, but couldn't: Defend Microsoft's mobile strategy.
microsoft - comments - 18.10.2008
Windows Mobile Is Still Immobile
My reaction to today's Microsoft announcements coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: Too little. Too late. Too bad.
microsoft - comments - 16.2.2009
No Windows Mobile 6.5 on May 11
Over the weekend, several blogs reported that Windows Mobile 6.5 would release on May 11. That's simply not true.
windows - comments - 22.4.2009
Office Communicator Mobile to Be Available in April
Microsoft plans to make the mobile version of its Office Communicator instant-messaging client for businesses available in 60 days.
That's according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who made the announcement at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Tuesday. Microsoft unveiled plans to develop Office Communicator Mobile last April. Beta 1 of the technology went to testers in October 2005. The IM client will work on Windows Mobile phones and PDAs.
microsoft - comments - 14.2.2006
Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile
Overview - Communicator Mobile extends the reach of Live Communications Server 2005 to information workers who use Windows Mobile based devices.
microsoft - comments - 24.4.2006
Windows Mobile 6 Features and Screenshots
Next week, the Windows Mobile Team is set to reveal Windows Mobile 6. This release is set to unleash some pretty cool features for your Windows Mobile device.
windows - comments - 8.2.2007
Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones
The same technology used in Nintendo's popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you're Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.
common - comments - 26.3.2007
Microsoft releases Office Mobile 6.1
If you've got a Windows Mobile 5.0 or Windows Mobile 6 phone or PDA, you'll want to grab this update.
download - comments - 3.12.2007
Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on 1 April
Pocket-lint has learnt from sources close to the matter that Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.
windows - comments - 26.3.2008
Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile 6.1
At CTIA Wireless 2008, Robbie Bach unveiled new features for an update to Windows Mobile, which includes enhanced features for socializing like threaded text messaging and features for simpler navigation.
microsoft - comments - 2.4.2008
Windows Mobile misses target
Microsoft sold more than 18 million Windows Mobile software licenses in its recently completed fiscal year – about 2 million short of its widely publicized 20 million-unit target – the senior vice president in charge of the business acknowledged Wednesday.
windows - comments - 2.8.2008
Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots revealed
Screenshots for the new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system have appeared on SmartphoneFrance delivered by an Anonymous source.
windows - comments - 13.11.2008
Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha screenshots
Here we are presenting screenshots from Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha! Firstly here you can see the cell-form-based icons.
windows - comments - 26.1.2009
More screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 leak
Folks back at xda forums have caught hold of more Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots which look very real.
windows - comments - 29.1.2009
Will Windows Mobile 7 fix updating?
According to a recent job posting, Microsoft might be changing how updates work on Windows Mobile with the release of version 7 next year.
windows - comments - 16.3.2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 launching on May 11
Back in February, Neowin cited Mary-Jo Foley predicting the Windows Mobile 6.5 roadmap. The Windows Mobile Team has announced the Windows Mobile 6.5 official launch date in a blog post as May 11, 2009.
windows - comments - 18.4.2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23034
The latest Build 23034 of Windows Mobile 6.5 is out now courtesy of some devoted folks from XDA-Developers forum.
download - comments - 22.8.2009
Office 12 for Mobile Devices in the Works
The countdown toward the release of Office 12 Beta 1 is on. Code is expected to begin shipping to technical beta testers any day now. But which versions of Office will Microsoft make available in the first round? That's less clear.
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Microsoft Sued Over Mobile E-Mail Access
Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today from telecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant "...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their e-mail and other data."
microsoft - comments - 16.12.2005
Microsoft's mobile IE6 will require more powerful handsets
Microsoft faces a tough sell with its latest mobile browser, Internet Explorer 6, since consumers will need to buy more powerful handsets to run it.
Microsoft, which announced plans earlier this week to launch IE6 with market leader China Mobile, has made no secret of the more
stringent requirements. It has indicated the software won't be available to download.
winbeta.org - 20.11.2008
Microsoft: "dropping support for IE6 is not an option"
Microsoft wants to see IE6 gone as much as anyone else, but the company isn't going to make the decision for its users anytime soon. The software
giant has been pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since it arrived in March 2009, but according
to the IEBlog, it's still up to the user to make the final
decision to upgrade...
winbeta.org - 11.08.2009
AOL updates AIM Express, Windows Mobile Messenger
Two new AIM updates geared toward keeping the mobile user connected, were launched by AOL this morning: AIM Express (IE6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3, and
Safari 2 & 3) and AIM for Windows Mobile (5 & 6)...
betanews.com - 20.08.2008
Desktop grade IE6 coming to Windows Mobile 6.1 Q4 2008
Nice find from our friends at MoDaCo:
"This wasn't really covered back at the
Windows Mobile 6.1 launch at CTIA, partly because we were a bit slack when it came to the actual Windows Mobile 6.1 announcement when it FINALLY came
and partly because the press release was so, well, vauge... but Microsoft did made a significant announcement regarding Pocket Internet Explorer, and
I figured today was as good a day as any to round up the facts.
Right, so as the title suggests... "Desktop grade IE6 is coming to Windows
Mobile 6.1 by the end of 2008".
The official release comes in the form of the 6.1 announcement at Microsoft PressPass
Checkout MoDaCo for a full demo video
neowin.net - 28.04.2008
Googles Orkut Drops Support for IE6
Microsoft may be opposed, but the campaign to kill off Internet Explorer 6 has gained a powerful ally this
week: Googles Orkut, the leading social network in Brazil, has vowed to stop supporting the
browser.
If you visit Orkut using IE6 today, youll see a warning message that says Orkut is ending support for the browser, while
recommending other browsers to try: Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, and Firefox...
winbeta.org - 11.08.2009
Microsoft Investigating New IE6 Flaw
Microsoft said it is investigating a report of a new potentially critical flaw discovered in Internet Explorer by security researcher Tom Ferris. The problem affects fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems running IE6, and could lead to remote code executation...
betanews.com - 31.08.2005
Stuck on IE6? Gmail's got your back.
Like many companies, the company I work for is mainly IE6. The older machines are running Windows 2000 and some of our clients applications
(applications we have no control over) don't work with IE7.
We recently tested Gmail Apps to use for the majority of our agents and one
of the biggest problems with the web interface was the lack of features that are available in other browsers. With the newest version of Gmail, this
is a problem of the past.
Gmail has been working with IE engineers at Microsoft to fix some of the problems they found with their code and
how it works with IE6. In order to see these changes you will need to install the latest updates from Microsoft (or specifically the update described
in MS08-022).
New confirmed features for
IE6 users include colored labels, invisible mode and Gmail Labs. With Google trying to compete in the enterprise email sector I believe this is a
step in the right direction. What do you think about this change?
neowin.net - 07.09.2008
Microsoft: All versions of IE have critical new bug
Microsoft has confirmed that the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that hackers are now exploiting also exists in older versions of the
browser, including the still-widely-used IE6. It adds IE6 and IE8 Beta 2 to the list and recommends disabling the Oledb32.dll to stay safe. A Danish
security researcher added that Microsoft's original countermeasure advice was insufficient and recommended that users take one of the new steps
the company spelled out. In a revised security advisory, Microsoft said research confirmed that the bug is within all its browsers, including those
it currently supports -- IE5.01, IE6 and IE7 -- as well as IE8 Beta 2, a preview version that the company doesn't support through normal channels.
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neowin.net - 13.12.2008
Firefox eclipses IE6 in web share, threatens IE7
Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake Internet Explorer 6 in market share, according to new data from StatCounter. The open source browser climbed to 24
percent of users in February while IE6 dipped to just over 22.6 percent, making Firefox the second most popular browser by individual version.
Although Internet Explorer 7 still leads with 40.8 percent, the Firefox increase narrows the gap as Microsoft's browser has remained largely flat
since at least July.
winbeta.org - 05.03.2009
Google brings Chrome rendering engine to IE6, 7 and 8
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It's an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites
to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should. Google, being a company that develops a web browser, has taken it upon
themselves to solve this problem somewhat. It has just released an early version of a project called Google Chrome Frame, which, when used, will cause
Internet Explorers 6 through 8 to use Chrome's rendering engine, not their default one. This allows stubborn users (or those in a workplace
environment) to continue using the browser they want to, and no longer aggravate web developers.
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neowin.net - 23.09.2009
YouTube to drop support for IE6
YouTube will soon be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 as it attempts to move users to a "more modern browser". Google, who owns YouTube, is
pushing for users to upgrade to Chrome, Firefox or IE. It's no surprise that they are pushing for users to switch to Chrome with two
advertisements to download the browser which Google is using to challenge Microsoft's IE 8. TechCrunch cites that YouTube is trying to follow in
Digg's footsteps where it recently expressed interest in dropping support for the legacy browser. "Digg's User Experience Architect Mark
Trammell at the time wrote that the site is strongly considering removing essential features like digging and commenting for IE6 users.
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neowin.net - 14.07.2009
Google barks back at Microsoft over Chrome Frame security
Google hit back at Microsoft today, defending the security of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the software actually makes Internet
Explorer (IE) safer and more secure.
"Accessing sites using Google Chrome Frame brings Google Chrome's security features to
Internet Explorer users," said a Google spokesman today. "It provides strong phishing and malware protection, absent in IE6, robust sandboxing
technology , and defenses from emerging online threats that are available in days rather than months."
winbeta.org - 26.09.2009
IE8 via Automatic Update for users running IE6 or IE7
Microsoft plans to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous versions of IE (IE 6 or IE 7) via Automatic Updates starting from the
3rd week of April. The update will be rolled out gradually from a small user base to large number of users. The update will be a 'high
priority' update for systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and is an 'important' update for Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008. The final version of IE8 was distributed via automatic update recently to users still running pre-release versions of IE8, Beta 2/RC1.
Organizations can use the IE8 Blocker Toolkit to block automatic delivery of IE8.
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neowin.net - 11.04.2009
IE 'unsafe' for 284 days last year
Using IE6 was "unsafe" 284
days last year even for users
who patched their systems as
soon as Microsoft released
fixes. An analysis by the
Washington Post's Stuart
Krebs revealed that exploit
code for critical unpatched
flaws in IE6 was available for
three-quarters of the time
last year.
Even
worse, for at least 98 days
last year no patches were
available for flaws that were
been actively exploited by
hackers to steal personal
data. Firefox users, by
comparison, were exposed to
critical, unpatched flaws that
were actively exploited for
just nine days last year. This
single period of exposure
compares to multiple
overlapping periods of
vulnerability faced by IE6
users.
neowin.net - 05.01.2007
Vulnerability Affects Firefox and IE, New and Old
A newly discovered
vulnerability, which the CTO
of security services firm
Secunia described this morning
as affecting Internet Explorer
7.0, can also affect not only
IE6 but Firefox versions 1.5
and 2.0, as observed by
BetaNews in our own tests...
betanews.com - 31.10.2006
AOL Enhances Mobile Phone
Offerings
AT CTIA AOL on Monday
announced several improvements
to its mobile offerings,
including an enhancement to
its mobile search service that
would format any page for the
mobile screen, an expanded
relationship with Sprint, and
new mobile applications...
betanews.com - 03.04.2006
Microsoft prepares IE7 Beta 3
for mid-August
The Hotfix is reporting a
Microsoft source has quietly
leaked that IE7 Beta 3 will be
availible to the public
sometime in mid-August of this
year. This goes hand-in-hand
with official MS reports that
they are indeed working on
Beta 3 at the moment.
One fix going in
Beta 3 will be will be to
revert back to an IE6 behavior
when using PHP pages. One IE7
tester noted that "when it
comes to compare the code in
the session variable and the
code in the post data,
they're different." Eric
Lawrence of Microsoft
responded with "for
compatibility reasons, we're
going to revert to IE6
behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to
prevent this exact issue" on
the subject.
In the past few weeks
Microsoft has made a few
references to IE7 Beta 3 on
their IE Blogs about bug fixes
and releases. IE7 Final is
set for a Winter 2006
release.
jcxp.net - 02.06.2006
Patch to a patch of a Microsoft patch needs patching
In the latest incident of a now-chronic problem that has been bugging Microsoft all year, a recent security patch now causes IE6 to crash in Windows
XP...again...
betanews.com - 19.12.2007
IE October Security Update is Now Available
The Internet Explorer Cumulative
Security Update for October 2007 is now available via Windows
Update. Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update. I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already to ensure
that you receive the latest updates for all Microsoft products.
This update addresses 1 remote code execution and 3 spoofing
vulnerabilities. This bulletin also includes killbits for some vulnerable ActiveX controls. For detailed information on the contents of this update,
please see the following documentation:This Update is rated “Critical” for IE 5.01, IE6 Server
Pack 1 on Windows 2000, IE6 on Windows XP, IE7 on Windows XPSP2 and IE7 in Windows Vista; “Moderate” for IE6 on Windows Server 2003 and
IE7 on Windows Server 2003.
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full story.....
neowin.net - 10.10.2007
Nielsen: US leads in mobile internet usage
A study released today shows 15.6 percent of mobile Internet subscribers use the mobile Web -- the highest penetration of any country. With 40 million
users, the firm believes the mobile Web has reached 'critical mass' for mobile ads...
betanews.com - 11.07.2008
