July, 2004

I am glad to see what got lots of feedback and discussion around our posts from yesterday. I am still digging through all the comments from yesterday and today, but I did notice some profanity. As people get more engaged with IEBlog, we want to set down some guidelines on how we are going handle comments in general. Our primary goal is for this to be a place for open discussion about IE, so we don’t want to have lots of overhead and process. Things we want to see in comments: Lots of good interesting...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I will paraphrase Jeff Davis , a developer on the IE team, when it comes to setting parameters for what we will and will not talk about IEBlog. We will happily post and discuss issues around what features should be in IE, how features work in IE, the importance of application compatibility in IE, tips and tricks in IE, answers to technical issues, security and extensibility in IE, web browsing in general...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I hopefully got your attention with the title of my first post. And it is definitely true for me, as I have loved browsing the web since I started way back in the mid 90s, and I really love browsing with IE. Yet, you may ask who I am or who we are that will be posting on this blog. I am Scott Stearns, the test manager for the Microsoft Internet Explorer team (as Dean says we will be pulling together full...

Thanks for the overwhelming amount of feedback and discussion. After work yesterday, I spent some of my time reading through the comments to my post (instead of reading the 9/11 Commission report). It looks the comments have grown some since I pulled this together last night. Here is my basic breakdown of what I am seeing in the response to my post. I list them in no particular order; most are improvement requests while some are data points. I have to say my favorite is the comparison of IE to Courtney...

Here is a tip to make your IE favorites more powerful. You can make the name of favorites keywords that if typed in the address bar will launch the favorite. For example, say you like to go to your favorite web email site a lot, but you don’t want to make it your home page. Simply add a favorite that takes you to the web email site in the main favorites folder (this won’t work if you put it in a subfolder). Then rename the favorite to something easy to type. For example, I go to http://www.hotmail...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 Great to get a link from Mr Scoble on the IEBlog. For people who are interested in applying for employment at Microsoft here’s a link . There is also the jobsblog , which talks about the different possible career paths at Microsoft. The IE team is a great place to work with lots of smart friendly people. Scott

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 My name is John, and I work on the Internet Explorer team. It's a little hard to explain my actual function on the team, but my current official title is "Development Manager". I'm also something of an adrenaline junkie. I'm big into back country and park/pipe snow boarding , semi-closed circuit rebreather and mixed gas diving , hiking and climbing up and around Mount...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 We’ve heard loud and clear that many people want a better connection with the IE Team. We’re happy to do something about it. Our goal in this blog is to be a good place, direct from the source, for information about IE. What are we working on? How do we make decisions? Why does some part of IE work the way it does? What keeps us up late at night? What are we thinking of around security, extensibility,...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 12 September 2012 There’s a new security update for IE available. You can find the security bulletin here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-025.mspx and the Knowledge Base article here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=867801 Candidly, I’d like to write in depth about the vulnerability, different approaches we thought of in defending against it and the compatibility issues (site and...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 Now that we have the team blog going I thought it'd be useful to share a few of what we see as essential resources. You'll see links to these at the side of this page as well and I'm sure we'll add more links over time. You can find my own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy Thanks -Dave Massy Internet Explorer Program Management team Useful Resources There are lots of...