Internet Explorer 7 news + screenshots
Microsoft adds tabs, search, RSS and anti-phishing to IE 7.
Over all it seems a big improvement over the sloppy current release and previous incarnations. A lot of this, I put down to the increasing market share of
Firefox, my current browser of choice.
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10.1.2006 Vista's Transparency Is Good News
eWEEK visits with Jim Allchin, head of Microsoft Windows development, to discuss strategy for the new operating system.
I will start by stating flatly that I like Jim Allchin, who runs Microsoft Windows development. A lot. When he retires at the end of the year, the company will have lost one of its all-time great technology leaders and a very decent guy.
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29.1.2006 IE7 - WMP11 Launch News
According to a new Vista-related press release on Microsoft's site, Windows Media Player 11 will be released to the public on October 24th.
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13.10.2006 Bad news about about SP1 for Vista
zero061099 report in our forum that: "went to the AMD Microsoft tech tour and learned some nice stuff. With SP1 the activation process will change big time...
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6.6.2007 New Windows Live Writer UI-News
While the news on Writer has been pretty quiet recently, here's two items that caught our attention.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft & Yahoo! Merger: Conflicting News
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that talks between Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo Incorporated, regarding a merger or some sort of deal to fight Google in the online advertising market, are over.
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6.5.2007 Vista Is Old News – Windows 7 Will BLOW Your Mind!
Windows Vista was supposed to just make you utter the Wow onomatopoeia when it launched for the general consumers, at the end of January 2007.
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12.12.2007 Todays Microsoft Press Releases, lots of Hardware news
Hardware news
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14.9.2006 Windows Aero Is Old News – Introducing LucidTouch User Interface
If you think that Microsoft's journey into the development of natural user interfaces has stopped with the availability of Surface, then think again. The Redmond company is hard at work in a collaboration with Mitsubishi Research to produce LucidTouch.
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24.8.2007 News from Microsoft Land: 24th – 28th September 2007
Everybody admits that Windows is the most popular operating system in the world because it is installed on millions of computers from every corner of the planet.
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30.9.2007 Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News
Update: As a clarification, Microsoft previously had a Google News competitor, named MSN Newsbot, which no longer exists.
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17.4.2008 SP1 Is Old News, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Already in the Making
Microsoft made available for download the first service pack for Windows Vista on March 18, 2008, this even though the bits had been released to manufacturing as early as February 4, 2008.
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15.10.2008 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 Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7 Are Old News – Non-Windows Singularity OS Is a Hit
Microsoft is by no means all about the Windows operating system. In fact, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3, as well as the next iteration of the Windows platform, Windows 7, are old news by now.
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21.3.2008 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006Zotob Worm Slams News Networks
Despite overall global infection rates remain low compared to viruses such as Sober, Windows 2000 systems at several news networks were hit hard by the Zotob worm on Tuesday, prompting CNN to break into regular programming to announce its computers were under attack and rebooting...
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17.08.2005Online Scams Exploit Katrina Disaster
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, several online scams have begun to circulate the Internet, according to several security firms. Sophos warned users on Thursday not to open a malware-Infected e-mail posing as news on the disaster. Some e-mails were soliciting donations through Paypal...
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01.09.2005Firefox 1.5 Beta Set for September 8
Mozilla has announced its beta schedule for the upcoming release of Firefox 1.5, according to a posting on its developer news Web site. Beta 1 will be released on September 8, followed by a second beta on October 5. The first release candidate of the browser is expected on October 28...
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02.09.2005Microsoft unveils phishing
filter for MSN Toolbar
MSN today unveiled two new MSN
Search Toolbar Add-ins,
enabling people to customize
their toolbar to their
specific interests and
providing a smarter searching
and browsing experience. These
latest add-ins for MSN Search
Toolbar include a beta of the
Microsoft(R) Phishing Filter
Add-in, which helps protect
customers from potential risks
of phishing Web sites and
online identity theft, and the
Games Add-in, providing
one-click access to some of
the Web's most popular online
games via MSN
Games.
The
additional MSN Search Toolbar
Add-ins are part of MSN's
long-term commitment to
deliver services that enable
people to improve their
searching and browsing
experience. Add-ins are
available to download for free
http://addins.msn.com/]over
here.
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06.09.2005eBay in Talks to Buy Skype
Skype appears to be looking
for a suitor, although it does
not seem to be having much
success. The company had been
in talks with several firms
including News Corp, however
the VoIP provider's search
may end with an unlikely
buyer: eBay...
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08.09.2005News Corp Buys IGN
Entertainment
Less than a month after its
high-profile purchase of
community site MySpace, News
Corp said on Thursday that it
would buy Internet company IGN
Entertainment for $650
million. The network would
become part of Fox's
Interactive Media unit, and
would push its U.S. web
traffic to over 70 milllion
users and 12 billion pageviews
per month...
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08.09.2005Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
As reported last week,
Mozilla announced its beta
schedule for the upcoming
release of Firefox 1.5. Beta 1
will be released on September
8, followed by a second beta
on October
5.
Further
more, the first release
candidate of the browser is
expected on October 28, which
indicates the final version of
Firefox 1.5 would likely come
sometime during the month of
November.
Developer
s warned, however, that the
dates could shift depending on
bugs and user feedback during
the beta
phase.
Alpha builds
of the browser, code-named
"Deer Park," have shown some
of the features that may make
it into the final version.
Although, Mozilla has made no
official announcement of the
new features that are expected
to be included in Firefox
1.5.
Some of the
current enhancements include a
better software update system
to serve browser upgrades, the
ability to reorder tabs
through drag and drop
functionality, and improved
pop-up
blocking.
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09.09.2005Windows Vista UX Guidelines
Available for Download
Microsoft have made available
a preliminary draft of the
Windows Vista User Experience
Guidelines (or ???UX Guide???
for short). These guidelines
contain information on
What???s New in Windows Vista,
design principles, guidelines
for controls, text, windows,
and aesthetics. They will help
designers and developers
create high quality,
consistent Windows Vista
applications.
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12.09.2005Yahoo and Google unveil new
web products
The leading internet search
companies on Wednesday stepped
up their rivalry, with Yahoo
releasing a new version of its
e-mail service and Google
launching a search engine to
track the millions of web logs
being created
online.
The
???beta??? version of Yahoo
Mail, tested on a limited
number of users before its
final release, may be viewed
as a threat by Microsoft to
its Outlook e-mail software.
It mimics many Outlook
features, including preview
panes that allow e-mails to be
viewed without being opened, a
one-button delete feature and
the ability to drag and drop
e-mails into different
folders.
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15.09.2005Yahoo Search Gets Instant
Answers
Yahoo on Thursday unveiled a
new beta feature on its Web
search that checks to see if
there is a single, relevant
result to a query and pops up
the answer in a "search
bubble" using advanced
AJAX scripting. For example,
weather information or recent
news headlines can be
displayed instantly without
submitting a search...
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15.09.2005MSN Virtual Earth Tours
Katrina Damage
MSN is using its Virtual Earth
client to provide 24-hour news
channel MSNBC with a birds-eye
views of the damage from
Hurricane Katrina. Users can
zoom down to street level to
examine damage and flooding.
The application will also let
users compare views from
before and after the storm...
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16.09.2005Firefox, Mac Not Immune to
Flaws, Viruses
Symantec has some bad news for
Macintosh and Mozilla users.
According to a recent report
by the security firm, neither
Mac OS X nor Firefox is as
secure as proponents claim. In
fact, Mozilla led all browsers
in terms of disclosed security
flaws...
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20.09.2005Google Testing Out Free Wi-Fi
Service
UPDATED Google is
testing out a free wireless
hotspot service in two
locations, company officials
acknowledged Tuesday. News of
Google Wi-Fi spread following
a new download called Google
Secure Access that lets users
connect to Google's VPN in
order to keep their Internet
connection secure from prying
eyes when using Wi-Fi...
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21.09.2005Toshiba Builds HD-DVD Enabled
PC
Hot off the heels of news that
Microsoft and Intel are
throwing their support behind
HD-DVD, Toshiba says it has
developed the first PC with an
integrated drive capable of
reading the new
high-definition DVD format.
The PC will launch in Japan
early next year, but a U.S.
debut has not been scheduled...
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28.09.2005Office 2003 SP2 Available for
Download
Much to the surprise of many
people, Microsoft have
released Service Pack 2 for
their Office 2003 productivity
software. SP1 updates are
included in SP2 as
well.
Downl
oad:
-http://www
.microsoft.com/downloads/detai
ls.aspx?FamilyID=57e27a97-2db6
-4654-9db6-ec7d5b4dd867&Displa
yLang=en]Office 2003 Service
Pack 2
-http://www.microsoft.co
m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=9c552114-dc9a-43ee-9281-b0
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ows SharePoint Services
Service Pack 2
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m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=344cb27a-bb19-4cd8-8307-e8
cbac184964&DisplayLang=en]Outl
ook Live 2003 Service Pack 2
-http://www.microsoft.co
m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=63336ef2-7d76-4a8d-921f-c6
f6e7152b97&DisplayLang=en]Offi
ce 2003 Service Pack 2 for
Proofing Tools
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m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=34db1e44-1d31-4137-bfa5-ca
755d4c7a71&DisplayLang=en]OneN
ote 2003 Service Pack 2
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m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=710152ef-af64-444d-942d-11
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ect 2003 Service Pack 2
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m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=c36d4b49-1910-4ff3-a525-47
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o 2003 Service Pack 2
-http://www.microsoft.co
m/downloads/details.aspx?Famil
yID=413d99fd-2965-4faf-bd48-3c
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ect Server 2003 Service Pack 2
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28.09.2005Blu-ray support hinges on disc
copy, says Intel
Intel Corp., which
last week expressed support
for the HD-DVD format for
high-definition video discs,
is open to also supporting the
rival Blu-ray Disc format
should its backers commit to
allowing the copying of
content from discs onto home
multimedia servers, an Intel
executive said
Tuesday.
I
ntel???s decision to join the
HD-DVD Promotion Group and
come out in favor of the
format, which it did together
with Microsoft Corp., was a
departure from the company???s
usual stance of technology
neutrality.
The
decision was born out of a
belief that the interests of
consumers are being ignored as
the world???s largest consumer
electronics, computer and
content companies prepared to
bring two competing and
incompatible high-definition
optical disc formats to
market, said Donald McDonald,
vice president and general
manager of Intel???s digital
home group. He was speaking at
a news conference at the
Ceatec exhibition in Chiba,
Japan, on Tuesday...
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04.10.2005Autodesk now owns Maya and 3D
Studio
Autodesk, the makers
of 3D Studio Max has acquired
Alias, the makers of Maya for
$182 million in cash. For
those of you who thought that
3D Studio Max was made by
Discreet, well, Autodesk now
owns Discreet so in effect,
the 3D modeling software
market is under control by
Autodesk.
Most 3D modeling that you see
in movies, TV, and games is
done using either Maya or 3D
Studio Max. This
concentration of market power
by a single company in such a
key market has many designers
and artists quite
nervous.
"What
about the cost of both
products?" said Scott
Tykoski, a 3D graphics
designer at Stardock. "These
are expensive products today
when there's competition,
what about in the future? Are
we going to be paying $12,000
base cost for these programs
in a
year?"
According
to Autodesk, the product
release schedule for both
products will continue into
the foreseeable future without
modification. The two
companies will continue to
exist and market and sell both
Maya and 3D Studio Max for the
near future.
What
the actual effect on
development of both products
now that competition between
the two is gone remains to be
seen.
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05.10.2005News in Brief
Nokia's tiny tablet and
Lexmark's printer/burner
hybrid make their debut...
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05.10.2005Single-Play DVD Hoax Fools
Windows Sites
On Monday, news surfaced that
Microsoft had invented a
single-play DVD that would no
longer function after being
watched once in order to
combat piracy. The story was
quickly repeated, often
without source, on a number of
Windows enthusiast sites and
blogs. There was only one
problem: the news was not
true...
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05.10.2005Microsoft makes major security
move
As expected, Microsoft
has just outlined plans for a
range of new corporate
security services and
products.
CEO Steve Ballmer and security
VP Mike Nash jetted in to
Germany to flesh out the
announcement, which covers
virus, spam and spyware
protection.
The
most important bit of the
announcement covered a new
enterprise-class,
subscription-based service
called Client Protection, a
management console that lets
IT managers generate reports
and alerts on spyware, viruses
and other types of malware.
This will be available on beta
late this year with no date
yet set for full rollout. It
has parallels with the Windows
OneCare security service for
consumers that???s been in
production for a
while.
"To help
our customers combat the
evolving threats and to have
those rights protected, we are
taking a holistic approach to
security that includes
developing new technology,
partnering with the industry
and keeping customers as
educated as possible about how
to stay ahead of the latest
threats facing them," said
Nash.
There???s
also going to be a new
anti-virus and anti-spam
product next year based around
the vendor???s buyout of
Sybari earlier this
year.
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