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 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 Unpatched Microsoft Flaw Leaves IE6 at Risk
A vulnerability in as-yet unpatched Microsoft software poses a more severe threat to Internet Explorer 6 users than those on the next version of the browser, security vendor Symantec has warned.
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4.8.2008 Google brings Chrome rendering engine to IE6, 7 and 8
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It's an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should.
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22.9.2009 Free XP Virtual Machine image for IE6 web development
Different versions of Internet Explorer are unable to run side-by-side on a single Windows machine without patching various files.
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2.12.2006 Internet Explorer 7 running side by side with IE6. (standalone)
If you already have Internet Explorer 7 installed you might be interested in
Multiple-IE . An installer for the standalone versions of IE6, IE5.5, IE5, IE4 & IE3!
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11.12.2006 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 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 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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2.12.2006 User reports shipping Vista is different from RTM
ONE OF our readers already bought Vista OEM from Overclockers. He installed it and got back with a few first impressions. And he reckons that the OEM Vista is not the same as the RTM (release to manufacture) he tried before.
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1.2.2007 Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface
Multilingual User Interface packs for Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional are not as easy to come by as Microsoft partners and customers would expect. The general presumption seems to be that the MUI packs are available as separate downloads from the Redmond Company
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22.6.2007 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 Windows Update automatically changing user settings - again
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
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12.10.2007 Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Available for Download
With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft has evolved the MUI architecture, breaking the intimate connection between the language resources for the user interface and the operating system's binary code.
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3.1.2008 Windows 7 User Interface – The Superbar - Enhanced Taskbar
One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar.
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4.11.2008 Windows Vista Beta2 users to run as standard user
David Cross a Director of Program Management with Windows Security has posted today over at the UAC blog that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user.
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3.4.2006 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 Microsoft patent app shows off new user interface for mobiles
Just in time to my previous column if the Windows Mobile touchscreen interface is ready for single-hand use, the United States Patent and Trademark Office yesterday unveiled a patent which was given to Microsoft (Application Number: 11/765,684).
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14.10.2007 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Jim Allchin explains Windows Vista User Account Control
One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used.
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24.1.2007 Life after Aero, Microsoft Cooking Improved User Interface for Windows 7
It might not sound like all that much, but it is a definite confirmation that there is life after Windows Aero. And as far as the scarce details on Windows 7 go, any palpable piece of information goes a long way.
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24.5.2008 Windows 7 Build 6780 M3 and the Fluent/Ribbon User Interface
Windows 7 Build 6780 Milestone 3 represents the first time in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor when Microsoft introduced the Fluent/Ribbon graphical user interface into the operating system.
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17.9.2008 2007 Office System Document: User Interface Evaluation Design Guidelines
This information is provided to assist sofware developers in evaluating the scope of the UI Design Guidelines for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites prior to accepting the Office UI Licensing agreement.
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7.1.2007 Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft
There is a constant flow of communication between Windows Vista and Microsoft. A collection of features and services across Microsoft's latest desktop operating system exchange data with locations on the Internet, including those belonging to the Redmond company.
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19.8.2007 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs for Windows Vista SP1 Updated
Starting with April 15, 2008, all the 36 different editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have been available for download, in accordance with all the languages supported by the RTM edition of Microsoft's latest Windows client.
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23.4.2008How 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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08.03.2009The 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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22.02.2008First Look: Forte's Overly Complex Newsgroup Reader
It takes a secret agent to understand the organizational scheme of Agent 3...
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02.09.2005Microsoft: "dropping support for IE6 is not an option"
Microsoft wants to see IE6 gone as much as anyone else, but the company isn't going to make the decision for its users anytime soon. The software
giant has been pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since it arrived
in March 2009, but according
to the
IEBlog, it's still up to the user to make the final
decision to upgrade...
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11.08.2009Exploit 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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14.09.2007Free 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
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22.11.2005Googles Orkut Drops Support for IE6
Microsoft may be opposed, but the
campaign to kill off Internet Explorer 6 has gained a powerful ally this
week: Googles
Orkut, the leading social network in Brazil, has vowed to stop supporting the
browser.
If you visit Orkut using IE6 today, youll see a warning message that says Orkut is ending support for the browser, while
recommending other browsers to try: Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, and Firefox...
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11.08.2009Microsoft Investigating New IE6 Flaw
Microsoft said it is investigating a report of a new potentially critical flaw discovered in Internet Explorer by security researcher Tom Ferris. The problem affects fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems running IE6, and could lead to remote code executation...
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31.08.2005Stuck on IE6? Gmail's got your back.
Like many companies, the company I work for is mainly IE6. The older machines are running Windows 2000 and some of our clients applications
(applications we have no control over) don't work with IE7.
We recently tested Gmail Apps to use for the majority of our agents and one
of the biggest problems with the web interface was the lack of features that are available in other browsers. With the newest version of Gmail, this
is a problem of the past.
Gmail has been working with IE engineers at Microsoft to fix some of the problems they found with their code and
how it works with IE6. In order to see these changes you will need to install the latest updates from Microsoft (or specifically the update described
in
MS08-022).
New confirmed features for
IE6 users include colored labels, invisible mode and Gmail Labs. With Google trying to compete in the enterprise email sector I believe this is a
step in the right direction. What do you think about this change?
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07.09.2008MPEG-2 Patent Holder, Licensing Agent in High-Def Codec Dispute
The principal licensing agent for MPEG codec technology, MPEG LA, has sued Alcatel-Lucent in Delaware court. Its claim is that Alcatel didn't have
the right to absorb Lucent's IP portfolio - which included patents on MPEG-2 technology - into a new and separate trust, after Lucent had already
made a commitment to provide that technology through MPEG LA...
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07.11.2007YouTube to drop support for IE6
YouTube will soon be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 as it attempts to move users to a "more modern browser". Google, who owns YouTube, is
pushing for users to upgrade to Chrome, Firefox or IE. It's no surprise that they are pushing for users to switch to Chrome with two
advertisements to download the browser which Google is using to challenge Microsoft's IE 8. TechCrunch cites that YouTube is trying to follow in
Digg's footsteps where it recently expressed interest in dropping support for the legacy browser. "Digg's User Experience Architect Mark
Trammell at the time wrote that the site is strongly considering removing essential features like digging and commenting for IE6 users.
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14.07.2009Palo Alto integrates firewall with Active Directory
Palo Alto Networks is set to announce at Interop New York the ability to map
firewall rules to individual users via integration with Microsofts Active Directory.
Palo Alto is introducing a software agent
that directly taps Active Directory servers to gather data about users and user groups and pass it along to the firewall. The agent is deployed at the
server, and no client agents are required.
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22.10.2007Microsoft: All versions of IE have critical new bug
Microsoft has confirmed that the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that hackers are now exploiting also exists in older versions of the
browser, including the still-widely-used IE6. It adds IE6 and IE8 Beta 2 to the list and recommends disabling the Oledb32.dll to stay safe. A Danish
security researcher added that Microsoft's original countermeasure advice was insufficient and recommended that users take one of the new steps
the company spelled out. In a revised security advisory, Microsoft said research confirmed that the bug is within all its browsers, including those
it currently supports -- IE5.01, IE6 and IE7 -- as well as IE8 Beta 2, a preview version that the company doesn't support through normal channels.
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13.12.2008IE8 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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11.04.2009Firefox eclipses IE6 in web share, threatens IE7
Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake Internet Explorer 6 in market share, according to new data from
StatCounter. The open source browser climbed to 24
percent of users in February while IE6 dipped to just over 22.6 percent, making Firefox the second most popular browser by individual version.
Although Internet Explorer 7 still leads with 40.8 percent, the Firefox increase narrows the gap as Microsoft's browser has remained largely flat
since at least July.
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05.03.2009Qwest isn't sure if its throttling bandwidth
It seems that Qwest can't decide if it's throttling bandwidth or not. A user on Consumerist.com states that Qwest tech support told him that
they do throttle their bandwidth for excessive users, and then sometime later, the tech support agent called him back and reported that they do not
throttle bandwidth. According to the user who is based in Washington, Qwest puts rate limits on streaming intensive sites like Youtube. The user
confirmed this by running several speed tests and then viewing Youtube again and was receiving the slower data rate. Then by using an external proxy
he was able to achieve much faster speeds than if he directly connected to the site.
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06.05.2009AOL updates AIM Express, Windows Mobile Messenger
Two new AIM updates geared toward keeping the mobile user connected, were launched by AOL this morning: AIM Express (IE6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3, and
Safari 2 & 3) and AIM for Windows Mobile (5 & 6)...
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20.08.2008European Union vs Microsoft, Opera - The war continues
It is known that the European Commission(EC) is considering forcing Microsoft to bundle rival browsers alongside IE in the Windows OS. It is likely
that this is based on a complaint filed by Opera which condemned Microsoft for browser monopoly and urged Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web
standards. In an interview with The Register, Hakon Wium Lie, Opera Software CTO, outlined 2 possible options in his view that could work if EC makes
it mandatory for Microsoft to deliver browsers of user's choice. He suggested that either: An Automatic Update download agent to get user's
preference before the browser gets installed, (or) Display the available range of browsers and get user preference to run a specific browser.
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02.02.2009Google brings Chrome rendering engine to IE6, 7 and 8
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It's an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites
to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should. Google, being a company that develops a web browser, has taken it upon
themselves to solve this problem somewhat. It has just released an early version of a project called Google Chrome Frame, which, when used, will cause
Internet Explorers 6 through 8 to use Chrome's rendering engine, not their default one. This allows stubborn users (or those in a workplace
environment) to continue using the browser they want to, and no longer aggravate web developers.
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23.09.2009Antispyware demo turns malware double agent
A strain of malware disguised as antispyware has become the latest double-agent in multi-step "convergence" crime online.
The
scam, which prompts users to download malware by posing as an antispyware demo, has proliferated dramatically, as reported incidences of its
distribution have increased by 1000 percent in the last month, according to Don Jackson, senior analyst at SecureWorks.
Jackson
believes the scam is being hosted by hackers using
Russian Business Network services (RBN), an illegal ISP responsible for hosting a significant amount of malicious and criminal
content on the Web.
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