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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:47 PM

Accelerator Categories

The idea behind Accelerators has always been to reduce the distance between services and the end-user. Ideally, we’d like people to be able to select content, very quickly find the service they want to use, and then preview or execute the output of that
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Friday, April 24, 2009 5:46 PM

Internet Explorer 8 is now available in 18 additional languages

We are pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer 8 in 18 additional languages. Internet Explorer 8 is now available in a total of 43 languages. List of NEW Internet Explorer 8 Languages: Language Code Windows Vista Windows Server 2008
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 PM

Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN

Do you read about Internet Explorer and related technologies on MSDN? We’ve recently reorganized the table of contents for the HTML/DHTML Overviews . We would like your feedback. Hi! My name is Lance Leonard; I'm a Programmer/Writer on the Internet Explorer
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Monday, April 20, 2009 5:38 PM

Customization in IE8

I am a user interface tester on the Internet Explorer team and one of my favorite things about any application is the ability to personalize the program to give it your own look and feel. I am never content with ubiquitous one-size–fits-all solutions
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Monday, April 20, 2009 12:22 PM

April Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, April 23 rd at 10.00 PST/17.00 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
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:17 AM

IE April Security Update Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for April 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update . This update addresses four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities
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Friday, April 10, 2009 3:18 PM

ECMAScript, Fifth Edition Candidate Specification Announced

Yesterday was a significant milestone in the web’s continuing evolution—the announcement of ECMAScript, Fifth Edition Candidate Specification (formerly known as ECMAScript 3.1 back when I last mentioned it ); the “Candidate Specification” stage is the
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Friday, April 10, 2009 11:09 AM

Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8

In January we blogged about our plan to distribute IE8 via Automatic Update/Windows Update (for simplicity, we'll refer to this as Automatic Update for the rest of this blog post). This post provides some additional information about how users and administrators
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:39 PM

Handling script errors from three different perspectives

For the past several months, I’ve had the unique pleasure of helping to diagnose a variety of web site compatibility problems. Now I realize that I just called debugging web site issues a “unique pleasure”—why? Because I was able to use IE8’s enhanced
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:13 PM

Fixing Reliability Issues in IE8

In a previous post , Andy wrote about some of the new features we introduced to improve reliability in Internet Explorer, such as Loosely Coupled IE and Automatic Crash Recovery. These features help minimize the impact of reliability issues (such as crashes
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:10 PM

Missed MIX, Catch The Content Online

For those of you who didn’t make it to MIX, I wanted to take a quick minute to point out that the MIX team has made all of the sessions available for viewing and downloading. If you’re building any type of web site or web application, I’d highly recommend
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