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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:15 PM

IE7 in Windows Vista: Configuring Your View Source Editor

We’ve noticed a few blog posts asking why IE7 in Windows Vista displays a prompt to launch Notepad. You can see this prompt by right clicking on a webpage and selecting View Source. I want to explain why the prompt is displayed and also tell you how to
Posted by ieblog | 50 Comments
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:06 PM

MSXML4 to be Disabled in Late 2007

Jeremy Dallman here with some important information from the MSXML team to the IE development community. The XML Team’s Blog has recently announced that they will be issuing a kill-bit for MSXML4 at the end of 2007 (October-December timeframe). Please
Posted by ieblog | 37 Comments
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:18 PM

Deployment Guide Now Available to Help Businesses Deploy IE7

Hi, my name is Mike Chan, and I’m a product manager for Internet Explorer focused on businesses. This week, we released two documents to help businesses get IE7 deployed. The first document explains the business value of upgrading to Internet Explorer
Posted by ieblog | 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:46 PM

IE6 VPC Refresh Now Available

In my original blog post about releasing the IE6 Virtual PC Image, we mentioned that it would expire on April 1st, 2007 (no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke), and that we’d be releasing a new VPC image to replace it sometime in March. Well, I’m happy to
Posted by ieblog | 55 Comments
Friday, March 16, 2007 12:55 PM

Announcing IE Add-ons Contest Winners!

Just after we released IE7, we announced a contest for developers. Create and submit an add-on to www.IEAddOns.com and the best add-on would win a trip for two to MIX07. Entries needed to be submitted to www.IEAddOns.com between November 1, 2006 and February
Posted by ieblog | 47 Comments
Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:00 PM

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Released

I would like to announce that Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 . This service pack contains a roll-up of all IE6 fixes to date. It will not upgrade IE6 users to IE7. For more information about other changes in the release please refer
Posted by ieblog | 24 Comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:43 PM

Using Outlook Web Access (OWA) on IE7 and Windows Vista

Hi, I’m B. Ashok, the Product Unit Manager for Web Development Tools . As mentioned in my earlier post last summer, we have removed the DHTML Editing Control from Windows Vista as part of making the operating system more secure. One application that used
Posted by ieblog | 17 Comments
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:30 PM

Troubleshooting Favicons in IE7

I posted a short FAQ on troubleshooting Favicons in IE7 on my blog . The post has been fairly popular since the initial posting, and these questions come up a lot, so we thought we’d bring it to the attention of the larger IE community. If you have further
Posted by ieblog | 48 Comments
Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:30 PM

IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

One thing I like to do when I set up my machine is customize the location of my personal stuff like photos, documents, pictures, and favorites to a different drive in order to preserve my files during the onslaught of dual booting, upgrading the OS etc.
Posted by ieblog | 28 Comments
 
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