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November 2006 - Posts

Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:55 PM

IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine

Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as
Posted by ieblog | 156 Comments
Friday, November 17, 2006 4:02 PM

Flash Player 9 Update

Congratulations Adobe Flash team on shipping the Flash Player 9 update on Tuesday! This Flash update serves as a model implementation for how browser extensions can work with Protected Mode to keep users safe. As most of you already know, on Windows Vista,
Posted by ieblog | 57 Comments
Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:36 PM

IE+JavaScript Performance Recommendations Part 2: JavaScript Code Inefficiencies

Hello again, this is Peter Gurevich, Performance PM for IE. We have gotten a lot of good feedback from our first post on IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations so I am eager to hear what you think of our second installment. This is the first of two
Posted by ieblog | 77 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:07 PM

IE November 2006 Security Update Now Available

The IE cumulative November 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.
Posted by ieblog | 35 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:30 PM

More Thoughts on Measuring Anti-Phishing Accuracy

Some of you may have seen stories comparing IE7’s anti-phishing accuracy with our competitors, citing different studies than the one I blogged about earlier that showed IE7’s Phishing Filter had the best overall accuracy. Paul Robichaux, from 3Sharp (the
Posted by ieblog | 17 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:46 PM

How I'll Judge IE7 Security

As an engineer, I’m proud of the protections we delivered by finishing IE7 but I want to set your expectations that we didn’t and, never will, reach perfection. There have been a few posts on ways to steal data or spoof URLs in IE7 but they really don’t
Posted by ieblog | 20 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:13 PM

Update Released for Some Versions of MSXML

We want you to know that some IE7 and Windows Vista users will need today’s security update for MSXML even though by default Windows XP and Windows Vista are not affected. Many applications install and use versions 4 and the original version 6 of the
Posted by ieblog | 9 Comments
Monday, November 13, 2006 5:10 PM

IE7 Worldwide Distribution by Automatic Updates

We have received a bunch of questions about the Automatic Updates (AU) distribution process for IE7 and the worldwide rollout over AU. Here are some facts that hope will answer some of those questions. Prior to starting general AU distribution to IE6
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:13 PM

Windows Vista is Out The Door!

As you may have seen on the Windows Vista blog , we released Windows Vista to manufacturing today! Wahoo!!! IE7 in Windows Vista is mostly the same as the IE7 for XP we released a few weeks ago (in fact, we have a single code base for both.) There are
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:00 PM

Improving SSL: Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates Coming in January

Hi, I’m Kelvin Yiu, a program manager with the Windows Crypto team, and I’m very excited to be posting today on the IE blog, announcing plans to make Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates available in January 2007. For over a year, we’ve been working
Posted by ieblog | 44 Comments
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:03 AM

IE7 and Various Screen Readers and Screen Enlargers

Since we announced the release of IE7, we’ve noticed many questions and discussion about how well the program works with various screen readers and screen enlargers on the net. We wanted to provide the latest information we have from the various manufacturers
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Monday, November 06, 2006 2:15 PM

Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 Release Candidate Now Available for Download

I previously blogged about the availability of the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0, a tool that can help you find potential compatibility issues, particularly for corporate IE departments. Since distribution of the beta download ended in October,
Posted by ieblog | 21 Comments
Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:22 AM

First Wave of Localized IE7 Releases Now Available

We have released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP in five new languages: German, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Finnish. You can download these today from the IE website . As with the English version, we’re making the localized downloads available a
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