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Monday, July 31, 2006 12:00 PM

Changes to IDN in IE7 to now allow mixing of scripts

Domain names are not limited to ASCII any longer, and as the web is growing more and more domain names now contain characters from other character sets. Such domain names are called Internationalized domain names (IDN), for example http://ايكيا.com is
Posted by ieblog | 49 Comments
Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:00 AM

Your Tab Settings...

Hello again! If you are already using Internet Explorer 7 you might have noticed our tab settings. Perhaps you already changed one or more of them to better suit your browsing habits. Whenever we create a setting, we always have many discussions about
Posted by ieblog | 115 Comments
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:00 AM

IE7 to be distributed via Automatic Updates!

As we get close to the final availability of Internet Explorer 7, I want to provide an update on our distribution plans. To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates (AU)
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:30 AM

Troubleshooting and Internet Explorer’s (No Add-ons) Mode

In our previous post about IE’s Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature, we’ve discussed how incompatible browser extensions, add-ons, spyware or malware can cause compatibility issues such as application hangs in IE7. In this post, we wanted to go into
Posted by ieblog | 30 Comments
Monday, July 24, 2006 2:41 PM

Addon Review: StumbleUpon

For nearly a year now, I’ve been following a cool social browsing addon called StumbleUpon . As of last week, the StumbleUpon addon is available for Internet Explorer, and is one of my favorite addons. Here’s how it works: As you browse the web, whenever
Posted by ieblog | 30 Comments
Friday, July 21, 2006 2:30 PM

IEAK 7 Beta 3 is now available

I am happy to announce the Beta 3 release of Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 [IEAK 7]. IEAK 7 allows enterprises, ISPs, ICPs, OEMs to create custom packages of IE7 on XP or IE7+ on Windows Vista. If you are looking to provide your IE7 users with
Posted by ieblog | 58 Comments
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:00 AM

IE July Chat Transcript Online

The transcript from the July 13 th chat is now available online . The response to Beta 3 has been great and people are overall happy with the recent improvements. There were a bunch of us and we enjoyed answering the stream of questions as they poured
Posted by ieblog | 40 Comments
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:46 PM

IE7 Beta 3 now available in multiple languages

The IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, German and Japanese versions of IE7 Beta 3 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago . You can download IE7 Beta 3 from the following locations: Arabic:
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Monday, July 10, 2006 1:54 PM

July IE Expert Zone Chat

It’s that time again! Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday, July 13th at 10:00AM PDT (5:00PM GMT). These chats are great opportunities to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product
Posted by ieblog | 29 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:00 PM

Displaying tfeL-ot-thgiR Scripts - Can your computer handle it?

If you plan to use Complex Scripts (like Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, etc), you should ensure that you have support for complex scripts installed. I know that sounds obvious, but we wanted to make sure people know how and why to do this. Let us examine this
Posted by ieblog | 40 Comments
 
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