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Monday, March 30, 2009 9:39 AM

Compatibility View List and IE8 RTW

I’ve blogged about the Compatibility View features included in Internet Explorer 8 a few times during the Beta 2 and Release Candidate milestones. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has released, I wanted to follow-up with a quick post highlighting the content
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Friday, March 27, 2009 2:53 PM

Accelerator Spotlight

Accelerators are a robust and customizable way of bringing you closer to the services you use most. We’ve said a lot about the technology behind Accelerators and how to build on it, but I thought it might be nice to step back for a minute and look at
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:42 PM

IE8 Security Part IX - Anti-Malware protection with IE8’s SmartScreen Filter

Over the last year, we’ve published two posts about how the IE8 SmartScreen ® filter helps to prevent phishing and malware attacks. In this post, I’d like to share some real-world data on the protection provided to IE8 pre-release users by the anti-malware
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:45 PM

IE team Chat Wednesday, FireStarter event Thursday

Just a quick reminder that we’ve got two great opportunities for you to interact with the IE team this week. Tomorrow, March 25 th at 10.00 PDT/17.00 UTC is the Expert Zone chat . This is our first chat since IE8 released and we are excited to hear what
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:27 PM

What’s new in JScript for IE8

During Beta1 and Beta2 pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done in the Script engine and the addition of new language features such as native JSON support . We also provided details about the JScript Debugger and the
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Monday, March 23, 2009 2:57 PM

RE: IE8 Beta Feedback

Thank you to everyone who has provided the IE Team with feedback on IE8. Your dedication to making this product the best it can be is truly amazing. Here is an update on the feedback channels mentioned in IE8 Beta Feedback blog post back in March of 2008:
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Friday, March 20, 2009 3:31 PM

More Web Standards Tests Submitted to the W3C

Internet Explorer 8 represents a leap forward in support for web standards. We believe that IE8 has the first complete implementation of CSS 2.1 in the industry and it is fully compliant with the current CSS 2.1 test suite. The only way to know if a browser
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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:00 AM

RTM Platform Changes

Hi, I’m Kris Krueger, the Test Lead for the developer platform in Internet Explorer. When we announced the IE8 Release Candidate , the call to action for site owners, software developers, designers, and administrators was to test with the Release Candidate
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:22 AM

Internet Explorer 8 Final Available Now

Today we’re excited to release the final build of Internet Explorer 8 in 25 languages. IE8 makes what real people do on the web every day faster, easier, and safer. Anyone running Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server can get 32- and 64-bit versions
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:25 PM

Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8

Thinking back, I think we can all remember a time sitting in our high school computer labs, clamoring away on the keyboard trying to finish some assignment our Computer Studies teacher, Mr. Smith for the example I’m going to use in this post, had assigned.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:03 PM

IE8 Firestarter event on March 26th

While the team continues getting ready for Mix09 coming up this week, we wanted to let you know about another unique opportunity coming up next week. On Thursday, March 26 th , the IE team will host the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event. This is a
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Monday, March 16, 2009 10:07 AM

IE Chat Rescheduled

The March IE Chat will be rescheduled for March 25 th at 10:00AM PST/18:00 UTC. A significant number of the IE PM team will be attending the Mix09 conference in Las Vegas on March 18-20 th and didn’t want to miss out on chat. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:58 PM

Site Compatibility and IE8

Reports of broken sites are an important part of the feedback the IE team receives from the community. When we receive a report of a broken site, we take it and identify the core issue causing the problem. A number of these issues end up being side effects
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:31 PM

Web Slice and Feed Authentication – Developer Guidelines

Hello, my name is Amy Placzkiewicz and I’m a Lead Software Design Engineer in Test on Internet Explorer’s Web Service Integration team. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the different mechanisms for providing a great and secure experience
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:46 PM

More IE8 Extensibility Improvements

We’ve made a few improvements to our extensibility model in IE8 RC1 based on feedback we’ve received both internally and externally. WebBrowser (WebOC) Rendering Mode Changes About a year ago, I posted an entry talking about WebBrowser Control Rendering
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Monday, March 09, 2009 4:45 PM

Change in Toolbar Management

Internet Explorer 8 now allows users to more easily manage their toolbars and add-ons. Feedback from Internet Explorer 7 users clearly indicated that there is a need for easier management of toolbar and add-ons. Our IE7 user feedback showed that less
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Friday, March 06, 2009 4:29 PM

Internet Explorer 8 at MIX09

Mix09 is just around the corner, approaching quickly. I’m really excited to get back to Vegas and back to the conference. The Internet Explorer sessions are now live on the MIX website ( http://2009.visitmix.com ) and there’s lots of great content there.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:25 PM

Create a dynamic Web Slice in 5 minutes

Web Slices are a cool new feature in Internet Explorer 8! With Web Slices, users can add little snippets of the web to the favorites bar and monitor their updates. Web Slices were introduced in a previous post here . In this post, I want to walk you through
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Monday, March 02, 2009 9:49 PM

Why am I seeing this dialog?

Internet Explorer 8 has a new feature that keeps you in control of your search engine default, by informing you when software attempts to change your settings. If you are using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 or RC1, you might have seen the following dialog
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