Java works on Vista
Vista hopefuls who have been told that Java will not work on their machines after they install the new super soaraway operating system have been mis-informed, according to Sun.
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10.10.2006 IE8 Beta 2 Next Month, Final IE8 by the End of 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008.
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29.7.2008 Sun Opens Java Source Code Under GPL
Hoping to increase usage of the programming language, Sun said Monday that it would be using the GNU General Public License (GPL) to open source the Java platform. Beginning today, source code would be available for both the Standard (Java SE) and Micro (Java ME) editions.
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13.11.2006 IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback.
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24.11.2008 IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing
This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough that some context and even history (before we go into any particular feature) is important, and so some readers may find this post a bit basic as it’s written for a wide audience.
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26.6.2008 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Microsoft IE8 trial coming soon
Internet Explorer 8 will be released as a beta test version later this year, according to a Microsoft source. Windows XP is apparently included in the plans for the new web browser.
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26.6.2007 Lukewarm reaction to first IE8 beta
Yesterday at the MIX '08 session, Microsoft employees Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch and a host of Microsoft partners touted the new Silverlight and IE8 betas to what could be seen (from my perspective) ..
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6.3.2008 Wanted: IE8 Beta Testers
As previously mentioned in the IE8 Beta Feedback post back in March, we have several ways to submit feedback on the IE8 Beta.
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31.7.2008 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007 The First Look at the IE8 Beta 1 Graphical User Interface
Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1.
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3.3.2008 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 in August
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is
approximately a couple of months away.
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3.6.2008 IE8 Performance vs. Google Chrome and Firefox
With Microsoft making headway towards the gold build of Internet Explorer 8, the Redmond company has to face an ugly truth. Performance-wise, with emphasis on JavaScrip performance, the software giant is getting ready to release a browser inferior to what is already available from rivals Google and Mozilla.
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27.9.2008 Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week
Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate.
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22.1.2009 Microsoft releases IE8 language packs
In case your favorite language isn't English and have been waiting to install a language pack for the recently released Internet Explorer 8.
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26.4.2009 IE8 RTW Compatibility View Design
The Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 shipped with a big Emulate IE7 button next to the Home button on the Command Bar.
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22.6.2009 New Beta for Windows 7 and IE8 Security Baselines
Microsoft has debuted a new Beta program via Connect focused on the Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines.
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16.7.2009 How to Restore or Reopen Last Closed Tabs in IE8
There may be times that one may accidentally or forgetfully closes a web browsing tab while surfing the world wide web in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) which has loaded important web page. Internet Explorer 8 has built-in mechanism that able to help user in “tab not found” situation, which is ability to reopen closed tabs, with support of up to 10 previously closed tabs.
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2.8.2009 Forget about IE8 – Onward to Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7
Well, Internet Explore 8 is not even barely out the door and there has already been talk about Internet Explorer 9... The fact of the matter is that IE8 is not out the door at all.
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20.12.2007 Internet explorer 8 (IE8) RTM expected in March
On February 11, Microsoft OCE announced RTM (Release to Market) version of Internet Explorer 8 will be made available to Royalty OEMs in March 2009. Seems quite fast since RC1 seemed like it just came out.
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18.2.2009 IE8 compatibility and reliability update for Windows 7 beta
Microsoft has released an update for Internext Explorer build 8.0.7000.0, fixing many bugs that were fixed with the release of IE8 RC1 for Vista and XP.
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25.2.2009 Pwn2Own: IE8 hacked & Microsoft responds in less than 12hrs
The 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest kicked off its second day today at CanSecWest this morning. If you missed it, check out yesterday's browser carnage (with pics).
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22.3.2009 Microsoft release 2 updates for IE8 on Windows 7 RC
Microsoft has released two new updates for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 RC, via Windows Update.
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6.5.2009 nternet Explorer 8 (IE8) - First Consistent Signs of Life Next Month
According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8, the next iteration of its proprietary browser, as well as the successor of IE7, is alive and kicking and even standards compliant.
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5.2.2008 Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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19.3.2009 Internet Explorer (IE8) RTW MUI Language Packs
MUI (Muiltingual User Interface) language packs for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is a set of language-specific resources that integrate exclusively with English version of IE browser, and can translate, convert and change the web browser’s user interface (UI) to be displayed in another supported language.
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6.6.2009 Microsoft Australia: Find $10,000 on the Internet using IE8
Here's an interesting way to promote your browser: The Australian division of Microsoft is running a competition in which you can 'find' $10,000 hidden somewhere on the Internet.
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17.6.2009 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 Direct Download Link Without WGA
After the almost disastrous launch of IE 8 Beta 1, the second beta of IE8 (Internet Explorer has been released for free download. Various improvements, enhancements, bug fixes and some new features are added to the new version of IE8 Beta 2.
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26.10.2008 Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008Java SE 6 Tries Smaller Footprint, JavaScript Support
Having just emerged from a
public beta process that began
in the spring of 2005, and
especially now that Java is an
open-source project,
developers will find little to
be surprised about in Sun's
newest Java SE 6, released
yesterday. But one sign that
even Java is adapting with the
times is its new support for
external scripting engines...
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13.12.2006Apple Fixes Java
Vulnerabilities
Apple has issued a security
update to patch a potential
vulnerability within Java
affecting Mac OS X 10.4.5. A
specially crafted application
could bypass built-in security
and allow access to system
files by an intruder. The
problem is located within Java
Web Start, which loads Java
applications over the
Internet...
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20.04.2006Sun Opens Java Source Code Under GPL
Hoping to increase usage of
the programming language, Sun
said Monday that it would be
using the GNU General Public
License (GPL) to open source
the Java platform. Beginning
today, source code would be
available for both the
Standard (Java SE) and Micro
(Java ME) editions...
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13.11.2006I'll take a Java to go please
Sun Microsystems has been developing a new solution to bring Java programmers and applications to the mobile phone to help compete with developers
like Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe Flash. The introduction to Java on the mobile phone will open up more functionality on a portable device
along with greatest flexibility on how Java developers can create better content and mobile phone applications. So far the line up of compatible
phones are Sony Ericsson, LG, Sprint, Orange, Cynergy Systems, and MobiTV. Even though some phones already come with Java preinstalled onto the
phone, the new mobile Java FX is going to prove to be great for developers for mobile phones to cash in on the application marketplace.
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13.02.2009A better Java for Firefox 3
Sun Microsystems has announced an important update to its ubiquitous Java plugin which allows Java-based web applications to run across all the
supported operating systems and browsers.
The new version, labeled
Java SE Update N includes several performance improvements, like a kernel online installer which quickly installs a core set of
Java interfaces so first time Java users can access the application faster, instead of waiting for the full install.
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28.02.2008After criticism, Sun changes Java updates
Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop.
Yesterday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance notification of its Java SE (Standard Edition) security updates and that it will
also scrap its controversial practice of staggering the release of Java patches. Instead, it will release updates for all supported Java SE platforms
simultaneously.
Sun Spokeswoman Jacki Decoster said the changes were designed to make it easier for enterprises to patch all of
their Java systems at once.
But Sun's new system also happens to remedy what some had called a serious security risk.
In July, eEye Digital Security Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret blasted Sun for waiting months between the release of some versions
of its desktop Java. In January, Maiffret's company had discovered a serious bug in the Java Network Launching Protocol, which is used to run Java
programs over the Web. But Sun made its fix for the problem available to developers several weeks before it pushed out the update to the Java
community at large...
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26.09.2007Sun lowers barriers to open-source Java
Sun Microsystems is making it
easier for open-source
programmers to ensure their
Java versions meet the
company's compatibility
requirements, but the deal
extends only to those involved
in Sun's own open-source Java
project.
Sun plans to announce on
Thursday a program that grants
access to its Java Technology
Compatibility Kit to anyone
with an open-source Java
project that is based
substantially on Sun's
open-source Java software and
governed by the General Public
License (GPL). Programmers
need access to the test kit to
prove that a project is in
compliance with the Java
specification.
Projects that pass
Sun's compatibility kit tests
also can use the official Java
logos for free, said Rich
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09.08.2007Java Surpasses C++ on
SourceForge
Last week, Java became
the dominant language on the
SourceForge site for the first
time, surpassing C++ in the
number of projects on the
repository of open-source
projects
site.
As
of last Thursday, Java
surpassed C++ with 16,738
projects versus 16,731 for
C++.
Officials at
Sun Microsystems Inc., the
creator and steward of the
Java platform, called the
achievement "a clear sign of
vibrant growth" and
participation in the Java
developer
community.
In an
interview with eWEEK, James
Gosling, a Sun fellow, vice
president, chief technology
officer of the company's
developer products group, and
"father" of the Java
language, said it is surely
significant "when C and C++
drop below Java usage in
SourceForge, which is actually
like the Galactic Home Central
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05.12.2005Red Hat to Build Optimized Java for Enterprise Linux
Nearly a year after Sun Microsystems first announced it would be releasing a build of Java to the open source community, Red Hat has apparently signed
on. In an announcement this morning, the company said it has licensed Sun's Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), with the objective to produce
an optimized Java for its Enterprise Linux that will drive JBoss applications...
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06.11.2007Sun Betas New Vista-Compatible
Java
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday
issued a beta release of Java
Platform Standard Edition 6,
the company's next-generation
development language targeted
at so-called Web 2.0
programmers. Perhaps most
enticing for those new to
Java, the update adds a
framework for supporting
popular scripting languages
such as PHP...
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15.02.2006On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards
Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or the ones they use ? It's been a tough call, and late
yesterday, the company reversed that call. Unlike IE7, IE8 will by default use "Standards mode."..
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04.03.2008Java Kernel plan proceeds
Sun continues to work on the Java Kernel, the idea of which is to provide a subset of the Java Runtime Environment tuned to particular programs.
Formerly known as Java Browser Edition, the Java Kernel is planned for release as part of Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 update 4,
probably in early-2008, a Sun representative said on Friday. Developers will have early access to the code to provide feedback.
An original intent was to make Java like a Flash plug-in and enable a resurgence of Java on the browser. Applications would specify which features
they need, such as Swing and XML parsing, said Sun staff engineer Ethan Nicholas, who is working on the project.
"The basic idea
was that the current Java Runtime Environment is simply too big, and most programs require only a small subset of the functionality," Nicholas wrote
in September 2006 on his
blog.
"The 'browser edition' that I suggested would enable you to install exactly the subset of Java that your particular program required, but you would
be able to download all of the other functionality on demand (and thus be fully compatible with J2SE)." ..
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25.08.2007Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse
Sun has opened up a test version of its
Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where
developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop.
Similar to Apple's successful App Store,
the site is designed to give consumers an easy way to download Java programs. A beta version of the store launched Tuesday with just a couple of
applications -- a Java version of the RuneScape online role-playing game and a Java-based Twitter client called Twitter FX -- but developers will have
until the Java Store's public launch at the end of this year to add programs to it.
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02.06.2009IE8, and why fixing that pesky 'tab issue' sealed the deal
In my most recent piece, "IE8, and why it's almost my default browser", I outline a couple of factors that inhibited IE8 from holding the
default browser position on my PC. Since writing that article, due in part to some helpful Neowin members and some quality time with IE8, I have since
awarded IE8 that coveted position on my PC and have promptly thrown Google Chrome to the curb. Perhaps the most taxing of my issues was what has been
colloquially referred to as the 'tab issue'. Many users have complained of severe delays when opening new tabs in Internet Explorer.
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03.04.2009ASP.NET AJAX makes its way to Linux via Java
A newly released update to Mainsoft's Java EE software product promises to let programmers use Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Web application framework on
Java-supported platforms outside of Microsoft Windows, including Linux and Mac OS X...
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10.04.2008Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
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27.01.2009Support for IE8 pre-released versions extended
The IE8 beta 2 support page has been updated again and the support for IE8 pre-released versions has now been bumped to until March 31st, 2009. This
could indicate that the final product may be released during April. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer had officially announced
earlier that there will be one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009, followed up by the final release. Currently, the IE8 Beta
testers can download the latest partner build and the rest can download the Beta 2 which is available to public. The current IE build version the
beta testers can download is 8.0.6001.18344 and the one available in the leaked Windows 7 Beta 1 is 8.0.7000.0.
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31.12.2008IE7 vs. IE8 in VSTS 2008 SP1 Load test
As we all know, IE8 is coming out soon (Beta 2 is already released) and one of the major performance changes in IE8 is opening up to 6 concurrent
connections per host, comparing to only 2 in IE7.
So, the question is: Does VSTS have IE8? And if it does, does it really open 6
connections per host?
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10.10.2008IE8 RTM expected in March
TechARP has predicted that Microsoft will reach IE8's RTM milestone in March during the last 2 weeks. TechARP expects so because Microsoft plans
to announce the final details of the IE8 RTM schedule and available language versions by March 5, 2009. The malaysian website also expects Microsoft
to determine a time frame for the public release of IE8 via Windows Update by March 8. There was a time gap of 8 weeks between IE7's RC1 and its
public release. A similar 8-weeks time limit applied to IE8's RC1 in January suggests the final build's availability around March 23 according
to TechARP.
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18.02.2009Windows 7 testers should upgrade their IE8
Though there is no IE8 release candidate for Win7, there's now another way for testers to apply critical bux fixes.
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