IE7 Issues Fixed On Forums
On the Bink.nu Forums, we use a component called FreeTextBox for users to enter their posts. Aparently, there was a small bug that prevented people from posting in IE7. I have updated the script files, and we are all fixed.
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9.8.2006On the Bink. 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 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 Windows 7 Will Not Inherit the Incompatibility Issues of Vista
Microsoft is hard at work aiming to prevent the Windows 7 apple proverbially falling close to the Windows Vista tree.
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24.6.2008 Resolve TCP/IP Network Configuration Issues in Windows Vista
Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.
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7.10.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Zune Has Too Many Issues to Compete
After watching Apple and its ubiquitous iPod dominate the digital music industry largely from the sidelines, Microsoft has decide to tackle the market leader head on with the introduction of the Zune.
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10.12.2006 Hotmail users report connection issues
Several users of Microsoft's Hotmail service reported having problems with the free e-mail service on Tuesday. Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed the issue and said it has been fixed.
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19.4.2006 Microsoft Issues New Longhorn Server CTP
Although Beta 3 of Windows Server "Longhorn" was expected sometime this month, Microsoft has instead issued a new Community Technology Preview.
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8.4.2007 Microsoft: Update on Windows 7 UAC issues
Before getting into the actual news, lets take a while to understand the current Windows 7 UAC dilemma
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5.2.2009 Microsoft clears up Zune 80 availability issues
Those of you searching in vain for a Zune 80 may not have longer to wait.
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22.11.2007 XP SP3 Ships Complete with a Range of Issues that Survived RTM
Microsoft released Windows XP SP3 to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, and by all means the company took its due time with the service pack: a couple of additional months to develop it on top of what it needed for Windows Vista.
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6.5.2008 Security Updates for IE7 and Vista Beta 1 Available Now
Security updates for Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 and Internet Explorer in Windows Vista Beta 1 are now available from the Windows Vista/IE 7 beta downloads page on the Connect site. Direct links to these updates are also provided below. These security updates resolve a vulnerability in IE 7 Beta 1 and IE in Windows Vista Beta 1 that has already been addressed for released/supported versions of Internet Explorer by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-052.
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Microsoft will not rename IE7 in Windows Vista
IEblog: I had
mentioned a while back that we planned to call the version of IE7 in Windows Vista “Internet Explorer 7+”. Well, the feedback we got on the blog was overwhelming – many of you didn’t like it. So, as we’ve
said on our website, we heard you.
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5.8.2006 Vista, IE7 Clear of US Antitrust Concerns
The Justice Department will not be going after Microsoft for any antitrust concerns with Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7.
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22.11.2006 Vista IE7 issue remains unsolved for many users
When I read stuff like this, it confirms my belief that there’s something very broken in the world of Vista. Here’s a very knowledgeable user and talented developer who’s confounded and befuddled by a well-documented and still unaddressed issue affecting Vista users running Internet Explorer 7.
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5.8.2007 Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
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5.10.2006 Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share
In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
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19.4.2007 IE7 features
Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun?developer testing! The latest version of the world?s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.
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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.
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3.12.2007 IE7 Security features
All web browsers make security decisions based upon URIs. Many security features, from Security Zones to the JavaScript same-origin policy, depend on the browser being able to consistently evaluate URIs to determine their components, and to compare them to other URIs.
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IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Screenshots IE7 push
Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites shortly after the final version of Internet Explorer 7 is released (planned for the 4th quarter of 2006). I
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31.7.2006 Three million of IE7 in first 4 days
IEBLOG: In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release.
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25.10.2006 Microsoft Update now works with IE7
When
Internet Explorer 7 Beta released to testers it left testers with a broken Windows Update that wouldn't load properly, disabling the ability to update Windows with critical patches that have been released since the end of July. This seems to of been fixed and on my PC it even redirects to Microsoft Update before my chosen homepage is loaded.
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IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages
After endless nights and countless slices of pizza, the IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, and German versions of IE7 Beta 2 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago.
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8.5.2006 IE7 Beta 3 now available in multiple languages
The IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, German and Japanese versions of IE7 Beta 3 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago.
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12.7.2006 IE7 Release Candidate builds are on the way
Todd from IEBlog yesterday posted on his MSDN blog about the future of IE7 as well as some tidbits about when to expect release candidate and final builds. You can find this information in the comments section
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4.8.2006 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 Microsoft Planning Life After IE7
You won't have to wait another five years to see a new browser from Microsoft.
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16.10.2006Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Microsoft Announces IE7+ for
Vista
In order to differentiate
between Internet Explorer 7 on
Windows XP and Vista,
Microsoft on Friday announced
"IE7+." The special
branding is designed to
highlight the additional
features IE7 will receive in
Vista, including Protected
Mode, parental controls, and
improved network diagnostics...
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27.05.2006Vista, IE7 Clear of US Antitrust Concerns
The Justice Department will
not be going after Microsoft
for any antitrust concerns
with Windows Vista or Internet
Explorer 7. The government
agency said Tuesday in a
report that it could find no
issues in either product...
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23.11.2006Updated 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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29.08.2008The 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.
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03.12.2007Interview: Microsoft Exec
Talks IE7, RSS
Following a decision to
release a standalone version
of IE7, browser development at
Microsoft has come fast and
furious. BetaNews this week
sat down with Gary Schare,
Director of IE Product
Management, to discuss the
changes coming in IE7,
Firefox's growth, and how
Microsoft will bring RSS to
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18.02.20062400+ major sites that IE 8 can't render correctly
As Microsoft moves forward with IE 8 it is hoping to introduce new features that will help stop the bleeding of consumers switching to other browsers.
While many hope that IE 8 will also help to ease webmasters pain of making every site work on every browser, that dream may not come true. Mary-Jo
Foley of ZDnet is reporting that IE 8's incompatibility list is at "2400 major sites and counting". These are sites that do not render
correctly natively in IE 8 and require an IE 7 layer to be running to display to web page correctly.
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20.02.2009Microsoft Rebrands Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft developers on Friday unveiled a new logo for Internet Explorer 7, along with quietly changing the way the browser is branded. IE7 will now be known as Windows Internet Explorer 7, emphasizing its integration with Windows Vista. IE7 will, however, be released as a standalone upgrade for Windows XP SP2 users...
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15.08.2005IE7 now on 100 million systems
Tony Chor, the Group Program
Manager for the Internet
Explorer team claims 100
millionth download of IE7
I'm pleased to report
that on January 8th, we had
the 100 millionth IE7
installation. However, even
more important than
installations is usage.
According to
WebSideStory
(the company we use to
measure browser usage), as of
this week, over 25% of all
visitors to websites in the US
were using IE7, making IE7 the
second most used browser after
IE6. We expect these numbers
to continue to rise as we
complete our final localized
versions, scale up AU
distribution, and with the
consumer availability of
Windows
Vista on January 30, 2007.
If you haven't
installed IE7 for Windows XP
yet, you can
download it
here. You won't need to
download it for Windows Vista
as it has IE7 built in with
all the same features as the
XP version, plus
Protected
Mode.
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15.01.2007Is there a new remote data execution exploit for IE7?
All that anyone knows for certain as of today is that there are some browsers that appear to be the victim of new attacks using a very old profile:
embedded binary code for graphic objects appearing in IE7 Web pages...
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11.12.2008Microsoft Fixes iPod Issues in Vista
Microsoft is working hard to
ensure users of Apple's iPod
music player do not experience
difficulty when trying to use
the device with Windows Vista,
and it issued a patch to
address eject issues on
Tuesday...
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28.03.2007VeriSign Issues IE7 Extended Validation SSL Certificate
New Groundbreaking EV
UpgraderTechnology Will Enable
All IE7 Browsers on Microsoft
Windows XP Client Systems to
Also Display the Green Address
Bar
VeriSign), the
leading provider of
intelligent infrastructure for
the networked world, today
announced the general
availability of its Extended
Validation (EV) SSL
Certificates, which help
protect users against online
fraudulent activity by
providing third party
verification of a Web site's
authenticity. These new
certificates support
Microsoft's IE7 and Vista
operating system and also
incorporate VeriSign's unique
EV Upgrader technology
enabling all Windows XP
clients using IE7 to display
the same green address bar and
other interface enhancements
as Windows Vista clients.
VeriSign issued the first of
these certificates to
Overstock.com, one of the
largest online retailers in
North America.
"As one of the first Web
sites to implement the new
VeriSign Extended Validation
SSL Certificates,
Overstock.com continues to
demonstrate leadership in
making online shopping
safer," said Jacob Hawkins,
senior vice president of
marketing at Overstock.com.
"When customers see the green
browser bar and trusted
VeriSign Secured Seal on our
site, they can be confident
that their online transactions
are secure."
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12.12.2006Handful of Vista Hotfixes Available
Now that Windows Vista has
been unleashed onto an
expecting public, a number of
minor issues have cropped up
in the new operating system.
Microsoft has already posted a
handful of hotfixes for those
running into issues, although
they aren't critical enough
to be published on Microsoft
Update...
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02.02.2007Microsoft 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.
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02.06.20063 Million IE7 Downloads in 4 Days
Microsoft is heralding the
launch of Internet Explorer 7
as a success, announcing that
the new browser has been
downloaded three million times
in the first four days. Early
next month, customers will
begin receiving IE7
automatically, at which time
adoption numbers will likely
skyrocket...
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26.10.2006Microsoft, Apple Join to Fix Vista iPod Issues
Touting the collaboration
between the two companies,
Microsoft today released a
patch it developed with Apple
to correct problems Windows
Vista users are having with
iPods. While Apple already
updated iTunes, issues
remained with iPods becoming
corrupted when ejected...
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09.05.2007Neowin Asks: Who can't upgrade to IE7?
As most Neowin visitors know
by now, Windows Internet
Explorer 7 was released this
week. While there are probably
a few of you who will not
upgrade immediately because
you use another browser
(Firefox, Opera, etc) the
question of the day is... are
those, the people like you out
there who cannot
upgrade to IE7?
I
can't, at least not at work.
The private university I work
for has multiple programs that
simply will not function on
systems with IE7 installed on
them. As reflected in a letter
sent our by my boss to our
campus, "these vendors
continue to work toward
support, but it will likely be
January or February of 2007
before that support becomes
official."
While I
in no way blame Microsoft for
this -- these vendors, Cisco
being among them, have had
ample time to test the IE7
beta and RCs -- the fact of
the matter is our organization
cannot allow systems to be
upgraded on our campus, even
student machines (which
require a school issued Cisco
program to access our network,
that program breaks with
IE7.)
Are there
programs that you or your
company use that have forced
you to stay at IE6? Please
comment and share.
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20.10.2006IE8 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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04.03.2008IE7 Public Beta Due Early Next
Year
Those eager to get a taste of
the next Internet Explorer
release with tabs and RSS
support only need to wait a
couple more months. A public
beta of IE7 for Windows XP is
slated to arrive in the first
quarter of 2006, IE team head
Dean Hachamovitch confirmed on
Tuesday...
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07.12.2005IE7 Beta Breaks Google AdSense
Developers testing out the
latest version of Internet
Explorer 7 are discovering a
nasty flaw -- the browser
seems to be incompatible with
Google's AdSense advertising
service. Although the problem
seems limited to those running
IE7 Beta under Windows XP, it
still has some developers
worried...
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