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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:09 PM

MSDN articles on IE for XP SP2

If you’re a developer hosting the WebBrowser control, you’ll want to read Compatibility in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 . This article has details about changes such as: Local Machine Zone Lockdown Object Caching MIME Handling MIME
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:43 PM

More on IE's UA string and the SV1 token

In earlier posts, Christopher mentioned that for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 the UA string was getting a new ‘SV1’ decorator. This has stirred up a flurry of questions and comments about our reasoning behind this decision. Why did we add
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:08 PM

IE in Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP 64-bit edition v2003

With XPSP2 out the door, we’re turning our attention to bringing our latest security enhancements to upcoming Windows releases. Next up: Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP 64-bit edition v2003, which are both currently in Beta. Both these platforms
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Monday, September 06, 2004 8:48 AM

IE add-ons in Marketplace

Hi, I’m Gary Schare and I run the product management team for IE. This includes defining and communicating the IE value proposition for all customer segments and helping the product team with long-term product strategy. I posted a comment last week about
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:45 PM

XPSP2 and its slightly updated user agent string

Hi, I’m Christopher Vaughan, and I’m the lead project manager for the Internet Explorer team. I’ve worked on IE on and off since the IE 3.0 days, and have been involved in every major Windows release since Windows 95. I work with Dean, Scott, Tony, Dave,
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:25 PM

CERT Advisory on XPSP2 – “significantly improves your computer’s defenses”

US-CERT published an advisory on XPSP2 the other day. Main statement – “Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) significantly improves your computer's defenses against attacks and vulnerabilities.” They specifically talked about IE changes, including
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