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 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 IE 7 No Longer a Secret Agent
One surprising problem that IE 7 betas have run into over recent months is that Web sites that were coded to work specifically with IE weren't working with IE 7.
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22.9.2006 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 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 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 Repair Corrupted Internet Explorer with Fix IE Utility
Often it happens that after getting infected with Malware, spywares or virus your Internet Explorer gets corrupted.
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13.10.2009 Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Unattended Generator Utility
The Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Unattended Generator Utility provides an easy way to create and edit an unattended answer file for use in installing Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.
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7.8.2006 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta Updated Log Collection Utility
With the availability of the first Beta of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft has also updated the range of solutions orbiting around its development platform and tools.
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27.5.2009 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 A Mac user switches to Vista?
Say something critical about Microsoft and Windows and no one bats an eyelash. But write anything even faintly judgmental about the Macintosh and in comes a flood of hate mail from Mac users. The worst part is the tone of most, which generally tend toward religious zealotry. So before I begin, let me begin by saying any e-mails of that type that are sent in response to this story will be deleted, with no reply.
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3.2.2007 Windows 7 - Next Generation User Interface
One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs.
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28.5.2008 Next-Generation Windows 7 User Experience
With Windows 7 Milestone 1 released in December 2007, Microsoft managed to give a taste of the user experience that is coming with the successor of Windows Vista.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 User Interface and Interaction
Windows 7 will undoubtedly take the graphical user interface and the interaction model to the next level not only as far as the Windows client is concerned, but also in terms of the content designed to integrate seamlessly with the operating system.
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11.11.2008 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 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 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 User paid to uninstall Windows XP
A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later.
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15.11.2006 Office 2007 :: First impressions of an average user
OK, well perhaps I am not the average user, but I can say with my hand on my heart that I have never installed any of the Office 2007 Betas and, for what it's worth, not really followed the Office 2007 developement program with as much energy as others.
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2.12.2006The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String
Jason Cox: As Dean
announced, a beta version of Internet
Explorer 8 will be released in the first half of 2008.
The HTTP headers of every web request contain a simple string called
the "User-Agent" that allows servers to identify the type and version of the visitors browser. For a deeper understanding of the User-Agent
string, please see
Understanding User-Agent Strings.
When released, the IE8
beta will introduce an updated User-Agent string. For IE8, weve simply replaced "MSIE 7.0" with "MSIE 8.0". For example, on Windows
Vista, IE8 sends:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0 ; Windows NT 6.0)
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22.02.2008How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4
Like a lot of other issues with Hotmail and non-IE browsers, you just need to change the User Agent string to fool Hotmail into thinking it is dealing
with a browser it knows about. In Safari, this is pretty easy to do. As far as we can tell, however, Safari doesnt remember the User Agent settings
from session to session, so you would need to reset the User Agent for each new session that you want to check your Hotmail account.
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08.03.2009First Look: Forte's Overly Complex Newsgroup Reader
It takes a secret agent to understand the organizational scheme of Agent 3...
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02.09.2005IE8 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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11.04.2009Google Chrome gets updates, pretends to be Safari
Remember Google Chrome? The new browser that was one of Betanews'
Top 20
Stories of 2008, and certainly across the Internet as a whole? Well, after the initial hype that Chrome (and its subsequent
first vulnerabilities) caused, the browser quietly broke the 1 percent mark of browser share this
month. Google this week
released updates addressing one moderate, and one severe security threat, and provides fixes for Yahoo Mail and Windows
Live Hotmail.
The Moderate security update addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability linked to the Adobe Reader plugin, and the severe
update is for a bug in the V8 JavaScript engine that could allow malicious users to "clickjack" sensitive information by bypassing
same-origin checks.
Previously, the ability to send an email would
break Yahoo's Webmail, this issue has been
fixed. The Hotmail bug is actually being worked on by Microsoft's team, as it is not so much a problem with Chrome as it is with Hotmail's
recognition of Chrome. Google has deployed a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with
"mail.live.com." The result is that Chrome reportedly changes its user agent string
to tell Hotmail that it's Safari...
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31.01.2009Exploit Out for Critical Microsoft Agent Flaw
An exploit that attacks a critical Microsoft Agent vulnerability was published less than 24 hours after Microsoft released a relevant security
advisory in its Sept. 11 Patch Tuesday set of releases. The security advisory for Microsoft Agent, MS07-051, was the only critical release out of four
security advisories. It addresses a vulnerability whereby the Microsoft Agent-a set of software services for developers to enhance the user interface
of Web-based applications-can get hoodwinked by a malicious URL and can then be used to take over a targeted system without ever appearing to the
user.
Microsoft Agent (agentsvr.exe) is prone to the stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to adequately bound check
user-supplied data. The issue occurs when the "agentdpv.dll" ActiveX control processes maliciously craft URLs, resulting in memory corruption. If
the exploit succeeds, the attacker gains system control. If it fails, a denial-of-service occurs.
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14.09.2007On 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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04.03.2008Google shows off PowerMeter, monitor your utility usage
Google, in its continuous effort to help us all go green, has started to rollout Google PowerMeter. PowerMeter is a Google gadget that will help you
regulate your homes power usage. The idea is simple, if you can monitor and measure your own power usage then you will be able to help reduce your
utility bill by observing where you are wasting energy. Google has teamed up with a list of power providers that have begun installing new smart
meters that when paired with PowerMeter allow the user to observe their power usage.
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20.05.2009Free Agent: A French Penguin
Visits
The Free Agent takes Mandriva
Linux 2006 -- the successor to
Mandrake Linux -- for a test
drive. The experience is less
than
<emph>magnifique</emp
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22.11.2005IE8, 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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03.04.2009Microsoft 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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25.02.2009IE8 loads pages faster, but not fast enough, in Microsoft test recreation
Performance needs to be something the user feels . That's the explanation we hear from companies that have had difficulty of late demonstrating
raw performance by the numbers (AMD comes readily to mind). Numbers may tell you a certain story, Microsoft's marketing team proclaims, but if the
user doesn't perceive the speed increase, it may as well not be there...
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26.03.2009New 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, 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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31.03.2009Symantec Finds Yet Another Excel Trojan Variant
It may be a single malicious
user with an axe to grind, and
that user may be targeting a
very small group of people who
just happen to use Microsoft
Excel. But whoever it is
continues to make security
firms like Symantec nervous,
as yet another Excel-based
document with a malformed
image string, dubbed
Trojan.Mdropper.Y , has
turned up...
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09.02.2007IE8 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
debugger.
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