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Sunday, April 30, 2006 11:02 PM

Search in IE7 (Part 2)

I posted previously that in IE7, the user is in control of search, and that changing the default search provider (as well as modifying the list of search engines in IE7’s list) is easy. In this post I’ll describe some of the specifics and recap feedback
Posted by ieblog | 145 Comments
Friday, April 28, 2006 10:47 AM

Give Beta Feedback Link

Hi all, I just wanted to point out that we have also included an entry called 'Give Beta Feedback' under the Tools menu in the command bar that directs you to a webpage with the list of all the ways mentioned in Al’s feedback post of getting information
Posted by ieblog | 56 Comments
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:25 AM

A New IE Add-on Site

Hi, I’m Tina Duff one of the IE Program Managers focused on improving the customer experience around IE - including the IE add-on web site. It sounds simple, but this means ensuring that wherever IE is talked about on Microsoft.com, it’s technically correct,
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Monday, April 24, 2006 9:10 PM

Feedback and Support for IE7 Beta 2

Hi, this is Al and I wanted to talk about feedback and support for Beta 2 of IE7 now that it is available. There are two main avenues for feedback for Beta 2, which are newsgroups and the Internet Explorer Feedback site. Internet Explorer Feedback As
Posted by ieblog | 135 Comments
Monday, April 24, 2006 9:05 PM

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (and more) Available

This evening we released IE7 Beta 2 at http://www.microsoft.com/ie . This release is not the preview or the update to the preview, but the real Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Simply: please try
Posted by ieblog | 268 Comments
Monday, April 17, 2006 11:41 AM

Windows Vista’s RFC-compliant TLS Extensions – Can your server handle them?

Back in October, we blogged about some of the HTTPS improvements we’re making to IE7. At the time, we mentioned that we have encountered some HTTPS servers which claim to support TLS, but violate the RFC and “hang up” when extensions are received during
Posted by ieblog | 33 Comments
Friday, April 14, 2006 3:40 PM

IE Chat Transcript Online

The transcript from yesterday's IE chat is now available online . The chat was a lot of fun and donuts kept us going as we answered more than 120 questions in the hour available. In the photograph you can see from left to right Peter Gurevich, Amy P (hiding
Posted by ieblog | 35 Comments
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:13 PM

IE ActiveX Update in April Security Update

Just a notice that the April Security Update for IE also contains a non-security change to the handling of ActiveX controls, as we’ve previously mentioned . Again, due to the nature of this topic, we are not taking comments on this post. - Tony Chor
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:12 PM

IE April 2006 Security Update is now available

The IE April 2006 security update is now available! This security update is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates available via the new Microsoft Update . I would encourage you to upgrade
Posted by ieblog | 73 Comments
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:02 AM

Reminder: Windows 98, 98SE, and ME are expiring soon!

Hey everyone, Christopher here with another in a string of Windows Lifecycle reminders . Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium are due to expire after July 11 th of this year. Please read this posted article , which contains all
Posted by ieblog | 48 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 11:50 AM

April Chat with IE Team

Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday April 13 th at 10:00AM PST. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product team. A transcript will be published
Posted by ieblog | 17 Comments
Friday, April 07, 2006 3:36 PM

Time, Time, Time, see what’s become of me...

Hello again. This is Peter Gurevich, Program Manager for all things rendering and display related on IE. How are all of you enjoying the IE7 Beta 2 preview refresh? I have been thinking a lot lately about the nature of Time. Now before we launch off into
Posted by ieblog | 94 Comments
Thursday, April 06, 2006 5:20 PM

Page Zoom now supports horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel

Hey there, Peter here. I am really excited to tell you about the new horizontal scrolling feature in the Beta2 preview refresh as well as other enhancements we are working on for Page Zoom. We have received a lot of great comments and feedback from our
Posted by ieblog | 23 Comments
 
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