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Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:58 PM

IE8 videos on Channel 9

Myself as well as some other people from the team recently sat down with Charles Torre from Channel 9 to talk about IE8. We thought you might enjoy these: Accelerators with Jon Seitel Developer Tools with John Hrvatin Search with Sharon Cohen Web Slices
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:23 PM

IE8 Reliability Update for Windows 7 Beta Now Available

We wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet Explorer’s reliability for users running the Windows 7 Beta. The update is now available via Windows Update , and can also be downloaded via Microsoft Update
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Friday, February 20, 2009 11:50 AM

Rescheduled: February Chat with the Internet Explorer team

The February Expert Zone Chat has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 24 th at 10:00AM PST/18:00 UTC. If you can’t join us live, the transcript for all chats are available here . See you Tuesday. Thanks everyone! -Allison
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:06 PM

The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8

Opacity. Gradients. Drop shadows. Long before CSS proposals for Transitions and Transforms , Internet Explorer 4 supported visual special effects through CSS. This capability was further extended by Internet Explorer 5.5. As an example, the following
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:26 AM

Apologies for the Expert Zone chat problems this morning

Sincere apologies for the trouble we had this morning with the IE chat. A problem in the tool prevented us from initiating the chat. We plan to reschedule and will let you know the new date as soon as possible. As always, previous transcripts are available
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Monday, February 16, 2009 1:23 PM

Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View

We’ve said a lot about our approach to website compatibility in general and the Compatibility View feature in particular. But because we've shared this information across multiple blogs and sources, I’d like to quickly recap what we’ve previously announced
Posted by ieblog | 104 Comments
Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:55 PM

February Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, February 19 th at 10.00 PST/18.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. Thank you to all who have attended
Posted by ieblog | 35 Comments
Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:38 PM

Thank You IE8 Beta Testers

As we've now entered the last major phase of our product cycle, we’d like to thank everyone for their dedication to making Internet Explorer 8 a better product. As mentioned in IE8 Beta Feedback our Technical Beta Program provides a way for an invited
Posted by ieblog | 34 Comments
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:22 PM

I found a web page that doesn't work, now what?

We’ve previously blogged about Compatibility View ; this post is a follow-up on compatibility and Internet Explorer 8 RC1. As you are browsing the web with Internet Explorer 8 RC1, you might come across some web sites where everything is not displayed
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:35 AM

IE February Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for February 2009 is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the Microsoft Update . I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already
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Monday, February 09, 2009 12:09 PM

IE8 Security Part VIII: SmartScreen Filter Release Candidate Update

Hello, I'm Alex Glover and I'm the test owner of the SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 8. The SmartScreen Filter helps protect IE8 users against phishing scams and sites distributing malware . In a previous post , Eric described the SmartScreen
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Friday, February 06, 2009 2:29 PM

Compatibility List FAQ

A few weeks back, we announced Compatibility View improvements available in the Release Candidate build of IE8. As you’ll remember from my previous post, users can choose to receive a list of major sites that are best viewed in Compatibility View . When
Posted by ieblog | 59 Comments
Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:28 AM

Suggested Sites & Privacy

The IE8 feature Suggested Sites helps you discover related sites that can be helpful to get more information about your interests. Under the hood, Suggested Sites is a system that provides suggestions by using a collection of users’ visited sites. You
Posted by ieblog | 12 Comments
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:04 PM

Personalize IE8 through Services

One of the things that I learned from working on IE is that there are common patterns of how users browse the web, yet what they browse varies person to person. We designed Visual Search Suggestions, Accelerators, and Web Slices to simplify common patterns
Posted by ieblog | 30 Comments
Monday, February 02, 2009 4:15 PM

Birth of a Security Feature: ClickJacking Defense

Hi, my name is Kymberlee Price, and I recently joined the Internet Explorer team as a Security Program Manager for IE8, working with Eric Lawrence. Prior to this I spent five years in Microsoft's Security Engineering & Communications team (MSEC) where
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