There have been a number of efforts we’ve been going through lately to promote users running modern versions of Internet Explorer. We have been marketing and advertising since release of course, and over the summer we added a prominent advertisement . Then, we recently announced that we plan to start...

Moving people off of older browsers onto newer ones is something we have been pushing hard for at Microsoft. The latest version of IE is significantly more secure than older ones, and way more interoperable. (Who really wants to develop 2 websites when they really only want one – one for some crusty...

I always like to take the opportunity to do a favor for a friend. And, if that favor is “put on a headset and talk geek for a while” well, that’s hardly work at all – in fact, I normally just call that “being awake”. So, in that spirit, when my friend Emily from ChangeBase asked if I would chat for a...

I had a question come up from a customer: so, IE9 JavaScript performance is faster, and IE9 has 4 different document modes – are there differences in JavaScript performance across the document modes? Now, I kind of suspected that the answer would be yes, but I didn’t actually know any details – and as...

For those of you attending TechEd Australia, if you are interested in application compatibility, there are two sessions you won’t want to miss tomorrow (September 1, 2011): Troubleshooting Application Compatibility Issues with Windows Internet Explorer 9 When your website doesn’t work with a new browser...

In my ongoing efforts to clear out all of the low hanging fruit and leave behind all of the fun, gnarly, nerdy problems, my latest article on TechNet Magazine was just published. This one addresses Internet Explorer 9 application compatibility, and avoids much of the nerdy stuff I normally focus on to...

One query that comes in quite a bit from the IT Pro community around IE9 is this: what happened to the zone indication from the status bar? Zone information, for both the Developer and the IT Pro, can be pretty important. It determines the security context the page runs in, as well as the application...

We recently announced that Internet Explorer 9 will be available starting Monday, March 14 . Naturally, if you are a geek (which, statistically speaking, is true for a fairly large percentage of folks who happen to be reading my blog), you are asking yourself, “where are all of the nerdy details about...

One of the most common questions I get while working with enterprise customers is: should I leave Compatibility View turned on for the Local Intranet zone? We have an awful lot of guidance that seems to be pushing for standards, standards, standards everywhere, and this has a tendency to get customers...

If you want to master app compat debugging, then I really only know of one approach: practice. Find things that are broken, and then find out why. If you have to look too far for something broken, then you must be significantly luckier than I am! Now, I prefer to listen to Mötley Crüe when I debug (or...