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Friday, May 29, 2009 3:09 PM

The CSS Corner: writing-mode

Introduction The writing-mode property enables text layout for non-Latin languages like Japanese and Arabic. Supported in IE since release 5.5, this property has been significantly updated in IE8. Our goals were threefold: To make its behavior more predictable
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:15 PM

Rescheduled: May Chat with the Internet Explorer

The May IE Chat has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 28 st at 10.00 PST/17.00 UTC. We apologize for any inconveniences. As always transcripts of previous chats are available here . See you next week! Allison Burnett Program Manager
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Monday, May 18, 2009 10:48 AM

Making the Web Bigger Part 1: Improvements to Zoom

As display technologies advance and the world begins to fully embrace accessibility on the web, the Zoom and High DPI experience of all browsers has become increasingly important. This is the first in a series of posts describing changes and improvements
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:05 PM

Now Available: Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03

We are pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packs for Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3, and Windows Server 2003 SP2. The MUI packs can be downloaded from here : Windows XP Windows XP Professional
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:24 AM

The tastiest dog food yet

This post is intended for IT administrators, but more technical users might also find it useful. During Internet Explorer 8 development we paid very close attention to Line of Business (LOB) application compatibility for large enterprises. We want IE8
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:59 PM

IE8: Nine Things You Didn't Know You Could Do

Our typical posts here are original information about the product from the people who built the product. This morning, I ran across a well-written article from PC Magazine with “some tips about features that you may not have noticed” in IE8. We try to
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Monday, May 11, 2009 1:54 PM

IE8 on Windows 7: The New Taskbar

Hi again! I’m Helen Drislane, a Program Manager on the IE team and I will be discussing how IE integrates into the new Windows 7 taskbar. Since the new taskbar was completely redesigned to improve window management, I will first describe the new behavior
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Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:37 AM

IE Setup Experience, just the facts (and the screenshots)

This post walks through the IE setup experience and the choices it offers users. There have been a bunch of web postings recently that have described aspects of IE setup and first run, not entirely accurately. We hope this information clarifies some of
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:36 PM

Accelerator Platform on Windows 7

When designing Accelerators for IE8, we had a number of scenarios in mind. Primarily, we looked at the all-too-common user pattern of copy-navigate-paste and decided we could save our users a lot of time and frustration by enabling some sort of contextual
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:20 PM

Session Cookies, sessionStorage, and IE8 or “How can I log into two webmail accounts at the same time?”

For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve made browser session handling a lot simpler. For instance, say you want to have two Hotmail windows open, each logged into a different account. Simply click the New Session item on the File menu, and a new browser window
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:03 AM

IE Testing VPC Images Updated

Just wanted to get a post out to let people know that we’ve updated the IE VPC Test images. These images are meant to make it easier for you to ensure your website works properly across different browser versions and different operating systems without
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:21 PM

Windows 7 RC Tab Hang Reporting Update Available

As we described on Monday , the IE8 in Windows 7 RC includes additional tab “hang” reporting functionality. This functionality relies on a timer threshold to determine when a tab might be unresponsive. This threshold was calibrated based on data from
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Monday, May 04, 2009 9:18 AM

IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry

With the “final” release of IE8 for Windows Vista and other versions of Windows in several languages , we’ve been focused on finishing IE8 in Windows 7. We’ll blog soon about the updates in IE8 in the Windows 7 Release Candidate around the Windows 7-specific
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Friday, May 01, 2009 6:21 PM

IE8 Installation: the User is in Control

As a follow-up to my prior blog post about Automatic Update/Windows Update distribution that began gradually in April, I want to provide an overview of the control users have over the installation and experience. First, to reiterate what I explained last
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Friday, May 01, 2009 10:10 AM

Security Intelligence Report Volume 6

The sixth edition of the Security Intelligence Report (SIR), Microsoft’s semi-annual report on the state of computer security was published on April 8, 2009. Using data derived from hundreds of millions of computers worldwide and some of the busiest online
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