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.NET control no longer loads in IE8 in Internet Zone

Hello There!   Veena here to discuss an important change made in Internet Explorer 8 that could impact you. With Internet Explorer 8 it is no longer possible to load .NET controls in Internet zone under the default(medium-high) security setting. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments
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Mixed content and Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! My name is Anshu. I am a support engineer in the Internet Explorer Core team at Microsoft. Today in this blog I am going to talk about a change in Internet Explorer 8.0 with respect to a setting related to security zone called “Display mixed Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 21 Comments
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Printing improvements within the User Interface of Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! We have made several CSS related improvements around printing to improve the readability of printed Web content and offer more control and functionality in the print medium. To read more about that, click here . Today, I will discuss two Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 7:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments
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Understanding Compatibility Modes in Internet Explorer 8

Hi everyone! With the release of IE 8, we felt that providing a little more detail around the different Compatibility Modes might be useful, so here goes! A fundamental problem discussed during each and every Internet Explorer release is balancing new Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:15 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments

“Open as Web Folder” Not In the Internet Explorer 8 File | Open dialog

Hi everyone! David Conner here.  I am a Senior Escalation Engineer on the IE Core and SDK team in Microsoft Support. If you’ve installed the IE 8 Beta builds or the Released build and tried to open a WebDAV share via the File | Open dialog, you may Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 4:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 37 Comments

Why is Internet Explorer 8 opening my web page at 125% zoom?

Hi Everyone, This is Bac Hoang with the IE Support Team. Today I want to discuss one of changes in IE8: Page Zoom. Traditionally, many existing web sites are coded to be displayed on a 96-DPI (dots per inch) display device. With fast growing technology, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 6 Comments
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“Open these the next time I use Internet Explorer” no longer an option in IE 8

Hi everyone! Just a quick post to make you aware of a feature in IE7 that is not going to be included in IE 8. This pertains to the options IE7 provides you when closing out a multi-tabbed IE process. These check box options are available when unhidden: Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 33 Comments
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Opening a New Tab may launch a New Process with Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! Shahinur again, with an IE8 topic this time… If you have been using IE7, you are probably used to all your tabs opening under the same iexplore.exe process. The only exception is if you are on a Windows Vista machine and you are moving from Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 11 Comments
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Protected Mode now disabled for the Local Intranet Zone in Internet Explorer 8

Hi! It’s Veena Karanam again. I wanted to take some time to discuss another change regarding Internet Explorer 8. With IE7 on Windows Vista, any navigation between web sites operating under different integrity levels would cause the following dialog to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments
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More information about Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View

You might remember a blog we posted back in December regarding Compatibility View in IE8. Well, we’ve come across some more interesting details and it directly effects the RC1 build. If you’ve read the IE Dev Blog regarding Compatibility View, then you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): IE8 RC1 Compatibility View list.xls

What does Internet Explorer have to do with the “Logon as a Batch Job” Local Policy?

Hello everyone! This blog outlines and interesting issue that just came through the IE Support Team.  A customer contacted Microsoft recently when he noticed that user accounts were being added to the “Logon as a Batch Job” local policy.  This Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Internet Explorer 8 and HTML 5 Test Cases

As we on the support teams gear up for Internet Explorer 8, we will try to keep you (our customers) up to date on any new information that becomes available. As part of this initiative, I would like to present some test cases for HTML 5 domstorage and Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments
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Internet Explorer 8 and what you need to be aware of regarding the Compatibility View sites list

I want to spend a few minutes discussing an issue I suspect may have some folks scratching their heads. So, what is the Compatibility View list and why do you care? You can read up on the feature in this blog .... Go ahead... I'll wait... Ok, so when Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 12:23 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Content Advisor in the Corporate Environment

Today we are going to have a short discussion on Content Advisor and it's intended use. Content Advisor is a tool for controlling the types of content that your computer can access on the Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor, only rated content Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:34 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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IE8 and Privacy

Friday, September 05, 2008 6:00 AM Privacy. Personally Identifiable Information. Choice. Disclosure. These are all key concepts in the digital age. We expose more of our personal data electronically than at any time in our history. IE8 gives users more Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 6:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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