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Friday, June 30, 2006 4:00 PM

Keyboard Changes in Beta 3

Hello, this is Kelly Ford, a test lead on the IE team and a big keyboard user of Internet Explorer. In an earlier post, Aaron Sauve provided The Keyboard Lover’s Guide to IE . The IE community has given us quality feedback on our keyboard model during
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:00 AM

Beta 3 UX Improvements

Hi everybody, Max here. I posted before about " A New Look for IE ” back when we released the beta 2 preview, and with the launch of beta 3, I wanted to take a moment to tell you about some of the new functionality we have added and changes we have made
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:22 AM

Uninstalling IE7 Beta Releases

We’ve noticed questions/comments/confusion about uninstalling IE7 so I wanted to highlight one of our FAQs and add a little more detail. Uninstalling IE7 will leave you with a fully-functional IE6 and allow you to install the latest release, IE7 Beta
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:19 AM

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP (and more) Now Available

This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, security, and a few end user features. Give it a try at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx . Based on your feedback, we’ve
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:00 PM

A Note about the DHTML Editing Control in IE7+

Hi, I’m B. Ashok, the Product Unit Manager for Web Development Tools – we have our own team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools ), but I wanted to post over here to discuss a change my team has made which has an effect on users of IE7+ in Windows
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:00 PM

Enforcement takes the fight to the phishers

Hi, I’m Aaron Kornblum, Internet Safety Enforcement Attorney at Microsoft, and a member of Microsoft’s global team committed to help fight cybercrime and protect our customers while they are online. As a parent, former Air Force prosecutor and civil litigator,
Posted by ieblog | 38 Comments
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:10 AM

IE interview on Matasano

My short interview with Window Snyder from Matasano has been posted over on their blog . Check it out! -Christopher Vaughan
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Friday, June 16, 2006 4:25 PM

MSN Spaces Updated

We got a lot of feedback that people were unable to add photos to their MSN Space using IE7 Beta 2. The MSN Spaces update fixes this issue while adding support for a lot of other cools things, like modules for daily tasks and those including Windows Live
Posted by ieblog | 34 Comments
Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:16 PM

IE June Chat Transcript Online

The transcript from the June 8 th chat is now available online . The chat was a lot of fun as we kept up with the frantic pace of answering the stream of questions in the hour available. Donuts, as usual, kept us going. Keep an eye on the chat schedule
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:45 AM

IE ActiveX Update in June Security Update

The June Security Update for IE also contains a non-security change to the handling of ActiveX controls; this is the same functionality that was contained in the April IE Security update . However, unlike the April release, there is no publicly available
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:38 AM

IE June 2006 Security Update is now available

The IE cumulative June 2006 security update is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update and I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already.
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Monday, June 12, 2006 12:05 PM

Reset Internet Explorer Settings

Hello, we are Durga and Bala, from the IE IDC team. We would like to describe to you, a new feature in Internet Explorer 7 and 7+, Reset Internet Explorer Settings. We have heard from users on their need to recover Internet Explorer to a workable state
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Friday, June 09, 2006 12:00 PM

Yahoo! ships customized IE7 beta 2

We often talk with our partners about all the ways they can take advantage of the extensibility in IE7. Today, Yahoo! released something new and (I think) pretty cool. “Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!” presets the homepage and search to Yahoo
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:30 PM

An XMLHTTPRequest tip

Over on the Ajax Blog, Dion Almaer passed on an important tip from Brent Ashley and Tim Aiello for AJAX developers – to have your cross-browser AJAX work better with IE7, you really should be invoking the native XMLHttpRequest (the cross-browser one)
Posted by ieblog | 63 Comments
Monday, June 05, 2006 2:30 PM

June Chat with IE team

Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday June 8 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
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:44 AM

A Caching Issue in IE7 Beta 2

Hello, Eric Lawrence here from the IE Networking team. I’ve seen a few bug reports and blog comments regarding an observed change in IE7 Beta 2’s caching behavior, and I wanted to post a quick explanation about the situation and assure you that it will
Posted by ieblog | 77 Comments
 
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