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 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 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 Click 4 The Cause
Microsoft is trying yet another approach to see some positive growth for its search engine. This time, Microsoft is targeting all philanthropists who search the Internet.
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23.1.2007 Group Policy Log View
This page provides the Group Policy Log view tool for Windows Vista.
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4.12.2006 One-Click Vista timestop crack
Thanks to Green Tiger, for this download. If you've had trouble using any of the previous timestop cracks. Then this is the one for you... heres the readme.
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23.2.2007 Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy 1-Click Podcast Subscription process for podcast listeners or viewers.
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26.10.2007 Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone
Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system.
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9.9.2006 Windows Live: The 50,000-Foot View
Microsoft has been rolling out Windows Live services in a breakneck and seemingly haphazard way. Is there a method to Redmond's services madness? Windows Live Platform Group head Blake Irving says yes.
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27.4.2006 Google, eBay Forge Click-to-Call Deal
eBay and Google have teamed up to offer "click-to-call" functionality into auction listings and ads, enabling consumers to initiate a voice call directly to a merchant or advertiser through Skype or Google Talk.
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28.8.2006 Windows Vista at 1 year: A computer maker's view
I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the Microsoft operating system in different ways.
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30.1.2008 Unite Windows and Linux With a Single Mouse Click!
After the success I had with my previous tutorial about how to run Windows and a Linux distribution together on the same computer (with a single monitor, keyboard and mouse and no other magic tricks required), I decided to improve the installation method with an extremely easy-to-use one.
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12.2.2008 Remove or Restore New Briefcase At Right Click Menu of Windows 7 and Vista
Briefcase is an ancient feature in Windows operating system, existed since Windows 95. Briefcase works as a special folder that supports two-way file synchronization with another folder on local disk or external USB/FireWire drive and network drive.
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13.6.2009 View Windows 7 Startup Program List With Portable Starter
If you have tight control over auto starting applications on startup then you can stay safe from malicious programs, worms and viruses without any antivirus software.
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13.10.2009 Google Maps visits up 41% following UK Street View launch
Following the launch of Google Street View in the UK yesterday (19 March 2009), UK Internet visits to Google Maps UK Increased by 41%.
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23.3.2009 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 WinUpdateList - View, Uninstall or Remove Windows Updates & Hot Fixes
In past we have covered Windows Update Remover tool to uninstall and remove windows update and hot fixes from windows xp.
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29.9.2009 View Windows 7 Startup Program List with Startup Discoverer
Windows 7 has several ways to start applications & programs automatically commonly referred as startup locations.
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17.11.2009 Vista Compatibility: What? When? Where?
Microsoft is launching a Windows Vista compatibility center in beta? Seventeen months after Vista shipped everywhere?
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8.7.2008 Microsoft Booed Over Backwards Compatibility
Having numerous advantages over other consoles, one of the most important being the backwards compatibility, Xbox 360 has all the cards to become the most popular gaming platform in the world.
But since good things don?t last forever, Microsoft is about to commit a grave error and cancel their biggest advantage.
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2.6.2006 Windows 7 Beta Critical to Compatibility
In another example of the fact that Windows 7 will be everything that Windows Vista was not, Microsoft indicated a strong commitment to ensure a high level of compatibility for the next iteration of the Windows client from the get go.
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30.5.2008 More Application Compatibility Resources for Windows 7
There are a number of efforts going on to help organize application compatibility for Windows 7, in or ongoing effort to improve in this space.
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14.9.2009 More Windows 7 Compatibility Program Details
There are only two weeks left until the latest operating system from Microsoft becomes available on the market, and the Redmond-based company has just unveiled some details on the Windows 7 compatibility programs it is running.
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2.10.2009 MS Adds Vista Compatibility to Zune
Microsoft issued its second firmware update for its Zune music device on Tuesday, offering stability and performance improvements.
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21.12.2006 How To Manage Windows Vista Application Compatibility
Migrating to Vista means big changes in application support. Will your applications work in Vista? Here are some strategies and tools to mitigate the impact of moving to the new OS.
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17.4.2007 Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Pack
Windows Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Packs SP1 Preview - Microsoft offers fresh Vista updates to testers.
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31.7.2007 Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update
About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available on Automatic Updates.
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24.10.2007 Vista SP1 Has Driver Compatibility Problems? Do Tell!
Ever since February 4, 2008, the day Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 were released to manufacturing, Microsoft made a move indicating that it was not entirely comfortable to release Vista SP1.
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4.3.2008 Introducing the Windows Vista Compatibility Center
At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center.
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9.7.2008 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8
The next public update of IE8 (for Windows Vista- and Windows XP-based operating systems as well as the Windows 7 Beta) includes improvements to
Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8s new, more standards-compliant defaults. This blog
post describes the technical background and how this new functionality works...
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04.12.2008IE8 - Standards Mode and IE7-Compatibility Mode
As you all know, the Internet Explorer team has been working hard to make IE8 the most standards compliant browser around. Unfortunately, not all web
sites confirm to these standards today. If you have concerns about your web site rendering correctly in IE8 standards mode, then there is some help
for you out there...
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28.08.2008Compatibility View List and IE8 RTW
Scott Dickens: Ive blogged about the
Compatibility View features included in Internet
Explorer 8 a
few times during the Beta 2 and
Release Candidate milestones. Now that Internet
Explorer 8 has released, I wanted to follow-up with a quick post highlighting the content thats been created on MSDN regarding the Compatibility View
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01.04.2009Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week
Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate. In a blog posting by
Microsoft's Frank Olivier, the UX and Compatibility program manager confirms "we're about to release" IE8 RC1. Insiders indicate it might be
worth penning Monday 26th January in your calendar as the date for IE8 RC1. IE8 RC1 will not install on the current Windows 7 beta build (7000) and
it's rumored that Microsoft could be readying some new beta bits for connect testers in the coming weeks. The RC1 build will initially be offered
to Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.
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22.01.2009Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (Updated for IE8 Beta 1)
This download is a VPC hard disk image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, and IE6, IE7 or IE8.
This VPC
image will expire on July 3, 2008.
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06.03.2008Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise
In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: "use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default."
Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued that, in light of their newly published interoperability principles, it was the right thing to do. This
declaration heralded an about-face and was widely praised by the web standards community; people were stunned and delighted by Microsoft's
promise.
This week, the promise was broken. It lasted less than six months. Now that Internet Explorer IE8 beta 2 is released, we know that
many, if not most, pages viewed in IE8 will not be shown in standards mode by default. The dirty secret is buried deep down in the
«Compatibility view» configuration panel, where the «Display intranet sites in Compatibility View» box is checked by default.
Thus, by default, intranet pages are not viewed in standards mode.
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29.08.2008On 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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04.03.2008IE8, 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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03.04.2009IE7 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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10.10.2008Microsoft 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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31.12.2008IE8 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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25.02.2009Compatibility and IE8
Chris Wilson, IE Platform Architect: In Deans recent
Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards
compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages
on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 but also makes the development of the next billion pages (in an interoperable way) much easier.
Continuing Deans theme, Id like to talk about some steps we are taking in IE8 to achieve these goals.
Ive been on the IE team
for over a decade, and Ive seen us apply the Dont Break the Web rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the
DOCTYPE switch to enable different
modes of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in standards mode (my team ran a report
on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them. We used the
DOCTYPE switch in IE6 to
change the box model to comply with the standards and enable developers to
opt-in to the new behavior. Wed already seen so much content written to IE5.xs non-standard interpretation of the CSS2 spec that we couldnt change it
without causing a slew of problems.
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22.01.2008IE8 Script Debugger - Under the Hood
Sheetal Kamat: IE8 Beta1 (download available
here) now
includes a Script debugger that is part of IE8 Developer Tools. This Script debugger was built by the JScript team and I hope you have been using it
to fix all script errors when building your web applications.
In this post I will be discuss the design of the script
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18.03.2008IE8 will render in true standards mode, by default
Thanks to Neowin Chat Moderator Mephistopheles for the heads up in BPN.
In what is probably one of the most fantastic bit of news to
come out of Redmond in a long time, Microsoft has announced today that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way
it can.
Posted on the IEBlog, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for the Internet Explorer team explained that IE8 will still also render
pages in an IE7 compatibility mode but that this mode will not be the default as they had
previously announced. The decision to enable
this mode will be left up to the developer of the website being visited, using an http header/meta tag.
“IE8 has been significantly
enhanced, and was designed with great support for current Internet standards. This is evidenced by the fact that even in its first beta, IE8 correctly
renders the popular test known as ‘Acid2,’ which was created by the Web community to promote real-world interoperability,” said Ray
Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect. “Our initial plan had been to use IE7-compatible behavior as the default setting for IE8, to minimize
potential impact on the world’s existing Web sites. We have now decided to make our most current standards-based mode the default in IE8.
While this change may require some work for developers of sites currently designed around Microsoft's previous rendering mode, the changes
required should be minor and going forward will make the development of true standards based websites, that everyone can enjoy, much easier.
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04.03.2008New IE8 build available for program participants
Internet Explorer 8 beta participants today received a surprising e-mail about 'IE8 Partner Build' released to the IE8 Technical Beta to test
and find issues. This build represents a preview of IE8's progress and is best used to verify issues fixed since releasing Beta 2. While Microsoft
believes it to be of adequate quality for you to use, is not as extensively tested as a milestone build, so it is not meant for the general public but
only for testing purposes. Microsoft is not providing any support for this build and henceforth just like in transition from Beta 1 to Beta 2, if you
feel that Microsoft have resolved misfiled your bug, please re-activate the bug.
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11.12.2008IE8 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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11.04.2009IE8, and why it's almost my default browser
Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8, and while I find that it is a great piece of software, it had a few shortcomings which left Google
Chrome untouched with respects to my default browser selection. There is absolutely no doubt that IE8 is better than IE7, its predecessor. It is
faster, more robust and certainly more stable. There are also some great new features; I am quite fond of IE8's Web Slices. I utilized a web slice
for Digg's top stories and to observe some stock quotes and I found it seamless and quite enjoyable.
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31.03.2009IE8 delayed? Microsoft extends support cutoff for IE8 betas
In August IE8 Beta 2 was released
in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and
in September Microsoft released support
for 21 more languages. Microsoft officially set the deadline for the final version for
later this year, and left
it at that. We noted
in September that,
according to the IE8 Beta 2 support page, prerelease versions of IE8 would no longer be supported come November 1, 2008, suggesting that the final
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