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Pandora by Music Genome Project

A friend of mine once mentioned to me that there's a website that you go to and just tell them what song or artist you like and they create a playlist of songs that match your song's musical qualities and stream those to you. I didn't believe him and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:52 PM by alialvi | 5 Comments
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IE team congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 2 (FF2)

Mozilla released FireFox 2.0 today and it is available for download from their website. I haven't used Firefox much to know what has changed from 1.5 but they do talk about improved tabbed browsing, session restore, RSS and Live Titles as some of the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:12 PM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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Why is "My Computer" Zone hidden in inetcpl in Internet Explorer and how do I make it show up?

I was recently asked this question by someone so I did a bit a of look around to find the answer to this and thought I'd share it with the rest of you. A quick word to clarify what I am talking about. In Internet Explorer, there are 5 Security Zones that Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:36 AM by alialvi | 1 Comments

Vulnerability Reports in IE7?

The Microsoft Security Response Center has posted a blog entry that talks about this vulnerability that is being reported in the news in IE7. This is a publicly disclosed vulnerability which is actually in Outlook Express (OE) and uses Internet Explorer Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:15 PM by alialvi | 6 Comments
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Its finally here!!! Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for the WORLD!!!

I'm deliberately late in blogging this since I wanted to make sure I wasn't jumping the gun, but doesn't mean I am the least bit less excited about saying this. After 5 years in hibernation, Internet Explorer is finally back with a major version update. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:08 PM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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Some news on IE7 for XP

Hello everyone Dean just posted a message on the IE Blog about IE7 for XP .. enjoy!! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:39 AM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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Earthquake disaster in Pakistan - How you can help!

Its been a very sad and tragic week for my country. Most of you must know about the terrible earthquake - the worst in its history - that hit Pakistan on the morning of October 8, 2005. The magnitude of the quake was measured at 7.6 on the richter scale Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:24 AM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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URL Handling in Internet Explorer 7

Its been a while since my last post here. I guess Beta 2 work has been taking most of my time. But I thought I should take some time to point people to the work that I have been doing for Internet Explorer 7. Eric Lawrence, our team's feature Program Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:19 AM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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IE 7 Preview (Limited)

Today, the IE team decided to share some of the details of its upcoming release. Chris Wilson posted on the IE blog about the Alpha PNG support and CSS improvements that have already made it into the product. There are a lot of other things that are waiting Read More...
Posted Friday, April 22, 2005 7:44 PM by alialvi | 0 Comments
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iPod Photo 40 GB

So my wife got me a new iPod Photo as my anniversary gift (gotta love her for knowing me so well - albeit my incessant drooling while looking at the iPods in the Apple Store in Bellevue Square might have given her an idea or two - but nevertheless it Read More...
Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 3:17 PM by alialvi | 2 Comments

Next Version of Internet Explorer !!

Bill Gates announced Microsoft's plan for the next version of Internet Explorer in a speech at a security conference. See this link for more on that announcement. Key point to note .. Internet Explorer 7 will be available on XPSP2 !! Read IE blog for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:45 AM by alialvi | 14 Comments
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Important IE Security Updates have been released.

We released two critical updates to Internet Explorer yesterday as well as one critical security update to the Shell code. Read the Security Bulletin or check out the Bruce's Post on the IE Blog for more details. I encourage everyone to download and install Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:42 AM by alialvi | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2003 SP1 Release Candidate 2 is now available

Go to the following page to read more about Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate 2(RC2) and instructions on how to download it. This version of the software is intended only for installation in a test environment. We advise against Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:28 AM by alialvi | 0 Comments
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Internet Explorer Expert Zone Chat

As per schedule, we will be having our expert chat about Internet Explorer on microsoft.com chat tomorrow. The purpose of this chat is to discuss currently released version of Internet Explorer and take suggestions and give answers to questions about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:59 AM by alialvi | 2 Comments

Interesting Post regarding IE and Microsoft AntiSpyware

Just read this article : http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyware.html This is a hoax ofcourse not true (BBlog is a site that provides humor via interesting concoctions) . There is (obviously) no truth to this .. IE does NOT get detected Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:26 AM by alialvi | 2 Comments
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