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 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 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 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 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007Microsoft: "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
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11.08.2009Googles 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...
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11.08.2009Microsoft 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...
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31.08.2005Stuck 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?
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07.09.2008Microsoft: 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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13.12.2008Firefox 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.
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05.03.2009IE8 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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11.04.2009Updated Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images Available
VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.
This
download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.
- IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows
XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file
- IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
- IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe
contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file
- IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD
file.
Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run
IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in January, 2009.
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29.08.2008IE 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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10.10.2007Google 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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23.09.2009Microsoft'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.
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20.11.2008YouTube 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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14.07.2009Google 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
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
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
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
The First Year of IE7
It’s been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about
where we are after the year.
According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. This makes IE7 the
second most popular browser after IE6. IE7 is already #1 in the US and UK, and we expect IE7 to surpass IE6 worldwide shortly.
Perhaps more
important than the overall numbers is the positive impact IE7 has made for our users. As you know, we focused a lot on improving security in IE7. We
believe IE 7 is the safest Microsoft browser released to date. According to a vulnerability report published today, IE7 has fewer vulnerabilities than previous versions of IE over the same time
period. What’s more, the report showed that IE7 had both fewer fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities in the first year than the other browsers we
compared.
neowin.net - 03.12.2007
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
Microsoft Updates Flawed IE6
Patch
It turns out Microsoft's
indefinite postponement of
security bulletin MS06-042
only lasted a day. The Redmond
company on Thursday released
an updated version of the
patch that corrects a security
vulnerability in IE 6.0 SP1...
betanews.com - 26.08.2006
