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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:30 PM

Internet Explorer July Out-of-Band Cumulative Security Update

Internet Explorer is releasing an out-of-band update 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
Posted by ieblog | 63 Comments
Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:00 AM

Check Out the New Developer Tools Tutorials

I’d like to invite you to check out the new tutorials added to the Developer Tools content . These tutorials are written to help you quickly learn how to use the Developer Tools to solve Web page issues. Each tutorial is set up to focus on a programming
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:24 PM

Update on the Compatibility View List in Internet Explorer 8

I’ve written a few posts about the Microsoft-supplied Compatibility View List on the IEBlog, calling out the what, how, and why of the feature. I wanted to take this opportunity to bring the community up to speed on what’s transpired since Internet Explorer
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:38 AM

How to make IE open new tabs faster

Browser add-ons are a great way to enhance the experience and capabilities of your Web browser. Add-ons are loaded by IE when you open a new browser window or tab. This is usually a quick process, but certain add-ons may cause IE to take a longer time
Posted by ieblog | 86 Comments
Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:28 PM

Changes to IE8's First Run

This blog post details a change we’re making to IE8’s first run experience, previously described in other posts here and here . The goal of the IE setup experience is to put IE users in control of their settings and respect existing defaults. IE will
Posted by ieblog | 39 Comments
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:35 PM

Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Security Mitigations in Use

Background As a part of the July security bulletin , Microsoft yesterday released an update to mitigate a vulnerability in the “Microsoft Video” ActiveX control. This control contained a stack-based buffer overflow which could be exploited by a malicious
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:31 PM

IE Compatibility List Pruning

Hi, I am Michael Benny, a tester on networking in Internet Explorer. During the Internet Explorer 8 development cycle I was responsible for verifying many of the pieces of Compatibility View. We have discussed earlier about how the Compatibility View
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