Ali Alvi's WebLog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello everyone Dean just posted a message on the IE Blog about IE7 for XP .. enjoy!!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Somewhere in one of my posts, someone mentioned Tabbed Browsing and what is stopping the IE team from putting tabs in their browser. Then again someone mentioned that they can live without tabs but they don't like BHOs taking over their machines. So I...

I just came across this Phishing Vulnerability in Firefox wherein you can spoof the source URL in the download dialog box. Just another one of the many reasons to believe that without security, no amount of progress can be made. We need to make browsers...

Check out Microsoft AntiSpyware (meaningful naming :) ) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&DisplayLang=en its still a beta version so there are some issues with it. Be careful when deleting...

has anyone tried the MSN toolbar ? I used the beta version a long time ago. They are working on a new Beta version with Desktop Search integrated. The pop up blocker is good if you're not using XPSP2 (which you should be)

hi my name is Ali Alvi. I am a developer for Internet Explorer . I have been working at Microsoft almost for the past 4 years now with (in my opinion) the greatest browser team on the planet. I did my BS in computer science from Lahore University of Management...