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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:34 PM

Trustworthy Browsing with IE8: Summary

Back in June, Dean Hachamovitch kicked off a series of blog posts explaining how the IE team approached the task of building a trustworthy browser. Trustworthiness is the foundation of Internet Explorer 8, and we’ve worked hard to deliver a product with
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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:31 PM

Updated VPC Images Now Available

Hey there, just a short post to let you know that new VPC images are ready for download. You can access them from the tools section on the Internet Explorer Developer Center , too. Thank you for your patience! Kristen Kibble Program Manager
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:02 AM

Part II: Better Everyday Browsing

As Paul mentioned in Part 1 of this post, we’ve really focused on making your everyday browsing experience better. In addition to the useful changes he talked about, we’ve made IE8 even more useful with integrated services so that you can easily accomplish
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:54 AM

Part I: Better Everyday Browsing

Hi, my name is Paul Cutsinger and I’m the Lead Program Manager for the IE8 User Experience. As Dean mentioned in his beta 2 announcement post, for IE8 we focused on improving people’s everyday browsing experience – what they do all the time. We looked
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:13 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available

We’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . Please try it out! You’ll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:11 PM

Introducing Compatibility View

At the start of the Internet Explorer 8 project we made a commitment to great website compatibility. It’s worth noting that this commitment hasn’t changed, even given the short-term impact of our announcement to better align with Microsoft’s interoperability
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:58 AM

Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

I am here to tell you how to upgrade to IE8 Beta 2. IE8 Beta 2 system requirements are the same as IE8 Beta 1 and it’s currently available in English, Chinese Simplified, German and Japanese. Stay tuned for more localized IE8 Beta 2 versions to be available
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:19 PM

IE8 Performance

Hi! I’m Christian Stockwell, and I’m helping to improve Internet Explorer performance. In the past few months, each of the browser makers has made very similar claims around their performance: “Superior speed and performance”, “The fastest and most powerful
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Monday, August 25, 2008 12:02 PM

IE8 and Privacy

As others have written here before, users should be in control of their information. That’s at the core of privacy. Privacy has two aspects: disclosure and choice. Disclosure means informing users in plain language about the data collected about them
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Monday, August 25, 2008 12:00 PM

Privacy Beyond Blocking Cookies: Bringing Awareness to Third-Party Content

Previous posts have covered trustworthy principles in general and some product specifics as well. Privacy is an important part of trustworthy computing. This post discusses one aspect of privacy on the web: third-party content. When most people browse
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:33 PM

Additional Tests Submitted to the W3C CSS 2.1 Test Suite

It’s been just over five months since the MIX08 conference and IE8 Beta 1. One of the things I remain committed to is the furthering of web standards through a comprehensive test suite for each standard. This is necessary to eliminate ambiguities or differences
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:15 PM

Check Out The “Engineering Windows 7” Blog!

Earlier today, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky kicked off the Engineering Windows 7 blog ; we hope to have a discussion with the community about how we are building the next version of Windows, much like we have with the IE Blog and IE development. Be
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:50 PM

IE August Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for August 2008 is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update . I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already
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