Over the weekend I bought an HP LaserJet 1012, the first printer I've had in years. Good printer at a great deal this week at Staples ($150). I let the driver install with all of the default options. After rebooting (sigh...) I was prompted with the...

Many of the security features I've mentioned in previous entries are opt-in, so if you have a custom application that hosts the web browser control you won't automatically be impacted by them. But what about the many great applications that host the web...

See Also: Authenticode - No, and never again! and Information Bar - Stopping the modal dialog madness Microsoft cares a lot about application compatibility. So does the IE team, but we have an additional burden: web site compatibility. I think I can...

Want to work in one of the best teams at Microsoft? Both the Shell (as in Explorer, not cmd.exe (or Monad)*) and Internet Explorer teams are hiring SDE s and SDET s. Heck, maybe you could be the one who helps implement tabbed browsing, rendering transparent...

Let's talk about fonts. As somebody who spends far too much time in front of a computer each day, I've become incredibly picky about display quality, and fonts in particular. With Windows XP, ClearType, and a sufficiently high DPI display, onscreen type...

In a response to my first blog entry on IE in XP SP2, Tom Gilder notices another new security prompt on downloaded files for XP SP2: Also, whilst on the subject of XP SP2, if you download a signed EXE to the desktop and run it, it gives you a security...

See Also: Part 1: Authenticode - No and never again! The Information Bar is a new piece of UI that shows up when potentially dangerous actions on a page have been blocked. It appears between the toolbar and the content window, and looks a bit like...

As you probably know by now, XP SP2 RC1 is publicly available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx . Over the next week or so I'll give an overview of a few of the security features the browser UI team has been working...

I don't suppose anybody is keeping score, but I'm now working on the Internet Explorer team full time. More specifically, I'm on the browser UI team along with Jeremy , Jeff , Aaron , and a bunch of others who either don't blog, or who's blogs I don't...