Hey Folks! The RC1 build of IEAK 8 can be found Here . Please download and test this version of the IEAK and report any issues, or potential bugs. We aren’t getting a ton of feedback on the IEAK and it’s unlikely that we will catch every issue that...

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...

Hi everyone! Take a gander at this blog site available from Microsoft.  Below is their mission statement and a link to the site: Have you ever come across a Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article or been presented with a Windows Error Reporting (WER...

Hi Everyone - Just wanted to send out a quick blog letting you know that RC1 (Release Candidate 1) is out and available for your testing pleasure! You can get RC1 using the below links: Windows XP Windows XP 64-bit Edition Windows Vista ...

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...

Lately we’ve had to field some customer issues regarding failures when attempting to use FTM. I wanted to clarify that FTM is not part of Internet Explorer – it’s a separate download, located at http://transfers.ds.microsoft.com/ftm...

Please take a look at this “not-yet-complete” listing of IE8 Group Policies. Keep in mind that this is a work-in-progress as IE8 is still in beta and content within the XLS file could (and probably will) change without notice. Something that I really...

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...

This story starts off with a tricky little deadlock issue that I worked on recently. Let me set the stage by explaining the surface level symptom, and then we will get to the good stuff. Randomly when users running Vista would attempt to launch Internet...

The Microsoft Firewall client for Microsoft ISA Server has an option that can (and will by default), automatically configure Internet Explorer connection settings using settings obtained from the ISA Server. Unfortunately, this setting can cause Internet...

IE8 will be available for users of the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows Server 2008. For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the update will be listed as Important. For Windows XP and...