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Friday, October 27, 2006 12:00 PM

MSXML5...Not in This IE

Some of you may have noticed the following goldbar on some websites: Our friend Adam on the XML team recently posted on the XML Team’s Blog about MSXML versioning. It’s a great read and thoroughly explains the best practices for using MSXML. As we’ve
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:00 AM

IE7 Hits the Street

Just in case you missed it somehow, we released IE7 last Wednesday . In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release. Thank you! (If you’re not one of those three million, you can get it here .) We expect the
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Monday, October 23, 2006 5:30 PM

Windows Search Guide in IE7

Hi, my name is Jane Maliouta and I am a Program Manager on the IE Team working on the Windows Search Guide . Throughout the development cycle, we've blogged about Search in IE7 . The Windows Search Guide is part of Instant Search, a new feature in IE7.
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Friday, October 20, 2006 3:42 PM

IE7 and High Assurance at RSA Europe

One of the best parts of IE7 is actually yet to come. High Assurance SSL certificates, now known as Extended Validation certificates are a critical part of our strategy to help customers avoid online fraud like phishing scams We’ve been hard at work with
Posted by ieblog | 56 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 1:05 PM

Building Add-Ons for IE Could Net You A Trip to Mix07 and $2500

Hey! I’m Pete LePage, one of the Product Managers for IE and I’ve been around Microsoft for some time now. One of my favorite things about Internet Explorer is how easy it is to customize with add-ons. Earlier today, Jeremy posted about some of the cool
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Friday, October 20, 2006 9:00 AM

Must Have Add-Ons for IE7

With your freshly installed Internet Explorer 7, take time to explore our library of add-ons. The IE Add-Ons website has over 400 add-ons registered to date, and many more are on the way. The IE7 team took the last few weeks (in between last minute bug
Posted by ieblog | 69 Comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:42 PM

An IE7 Security Vulnerability?

Some people are discussing a recently announced security vulnerability that they claim is found in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2 systems. While it is true that a vulnerability exists, the vulnerability is not actually in any components of IE7,
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:00 PM

Meet Some of the IE7 Team

Last week Channel 9 , with camera in tow, paid a visit to the IE Team. In the first video I talk far too long at the start before we walk the hallways and meet a few members of the team. In the second video we chat with Max Stevens on user experience.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:45 AM

New Quick Reference Sheet Posted to the IE7 Site

You may recall when Seth originally introduced our Quick Reference Sheet for IE7 in an earlier post . Since then we’ve made a few additions and posted it to the main IE7 site on Microsoft.com . The Quick Reference Sheet pulls together some really useful
Posted by ieblog | 3 Comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:56 AM

Be Ready for Automatic Update Distribution of IE7 by November 1

Now that IE7 has released, I want to remind everyone about the plan we announced back in July to distribute IE7 via Automatic Updates (AU) and point you to the readiness materials we’ve created. To help you become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute
Posted by ieblog | 81 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:31 PM

IE7 for the World

Now that we’ve released IE7 in English, I want to update everyone on our plans for other languages. The short version is that we will be releasing IE7 in all languages available for each version of Windows – twenty-four fully localized languages in total.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:10 PM

IE7 Feedback and Support

Hello, my name is Kellie, I am a Lead Program Manager on the IE Team. First and foremost, the IE team would like to thank everyone in the community who contributed feedback to the IE7 release. You guys rock! This release was the first time we used the
Posted by ieblog | 128 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:52 PM

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now

Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie . We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:26 AM

SSL, TLS and a Little ActiveX: How IE7 Strikes a Balance Between Security and Compatibility

We’ve been talking for a long time about making sure IE7 is as secure as possible but still compatible with the Internet. The principle that helps us balance security and compatibility is to not impact existing websites unless we need to change IE to
Posted by ieblog | 46 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:59 PM

Accept-Language Header for Internet Explorer 7

In addition to the more prominent work we’ve done to enable international scenarios (like adding support for International Domain Names ), Internet Explorer 7 updates the available values for the Accept-Language header. Accept-Language is an HTTP header
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:46 PM

Transcript for October Expert Chat - Best Turnout to Date

Hey all, The transcript for the October Expert chat is now available. Many thanks to all who attended our final chat for IE7. We intend to keep this going after IE7 ships so stay tuned :) Cheers, Uche Enuha Program Manager
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:02 AM

IE7 Installation and Anti-Malware Applications

A few people have asked why we recommend temporarily disabling anti-virus or anti-spyware applications (which I’ll refer to together as anti-malware) prior to installing IE7, so here’s a little insight to the situation. Along with copying IE7 files to
Posted by ieblog | 107 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 11:31 AM

Last Expert Zone Chat Before We Ship IE

We wanted to give you guys one last chat session before we ship IE. So if you can, you should join us for the chat this Thursday, October 12 th at 10.00AM PDT (5.00GMT) otherwise you can catch all the action in the transcript. Cheers, Uche Enuha Program
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Friday, October 06, 2006 5:40 PM

IE7 Is Coming This Month...Are you Ready?

The final release of IE7 is fast approaching … and I mean really fast … and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it’s available for download. We want to ensure that you are ready and the information below will help get
Posted by ieblog | 333 Comments
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:20 AM

IE7 Tech Articles Have Been Updated

To help you prepare for the IE7 release we’ve updated many of our tech articles on MSDN including those on Protected Mode , ActiveX Security and CSS Compatibility . You’ll find more sample code, more examples, and best practices for scenarios that you’ve
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