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Friday, November 13, 2009 2:45 PM

My Favorite IE Add-on: Mouse Gestures by Ralph Hare

I spend a lot of time dealing with problems users encounter when using Internet Explorer. As a result, when I write about add-ons, I’m usually talking about misbehaving code that is wrecking the browser. However, it’s not all doom-and-gloom out there,
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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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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
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:34 PM

Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8

The next public update of IE8 (for Windows Vista- and Windows XP-based operating systems as well as the Windows 7 Beta) includes improvements to Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8’s new, more
Posted by ieblog | 132 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:48 PM

The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part 1: Navigate Easier and Faster

For Beta 1, we discussed some of the technical improvements (like domain highlighting, multi-line paste, and improved click behavior) we made to IE8’s address bar. For Beta 2, we took the covers off of even bigger changes which fit in with our goal of
Posted by ieblog | 44 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:02 AM

Part II: Better Everyday Browsing

As Paul mentioned in Part 1 of this post, we’ve really focused on making your everyday browsing experience better. In addition to the useful changes he talked about, we’ve made IE8 even more useful with integrated services so that you can easily accomplish
Posted by ieblog | 127 Comments
Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:00 AM

Beta 3 UX Improvements

Hi everybody, Max here. I posted before about " A New Look for IE ” back when we released the beta 2 preview, and with the launch of beta 3, I wanted to take a moment to tell you about some of the new functionality we have added and changes we have made
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:17 PM

Clear my Tracks: yes please!!!!

First let me introduce myself. My name is Uche Enuha and I am a recent college graduate hire to the Internet Explorer team. I am a Program Manager working on the User Experience team. Now to the main point. There is a new feature in IE7 called ‘Delete
Posted by ieblog | 236 Comments
Monday, November 21, 2005 4:56 PM

Better Website Identification and Extended Validation Certificates in IE7 and Other Browsers

Today I want to tell you about both our established plan to highlight secure sites in IE7 but also to tell you about some early thinking in the industry about creating stronger standards for identity on the internet. IE7 will join other browsers like
Posted by ieblog | 185 Comments
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:31 PM

Genuine Windows and Browsers

The core of my team’s job is to make IE7 and Windows Vista so compelling so that people choose our products. The people who work on Windows want you to have a good experience, whether you use IE or not - for example, Windows Media Player has a Firefox
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Friday, July 29, 2005 8:45 AM

Toolbars in IE7 Beta 1

Yesterday, rumors were circulating stating that the IE 7 beta 1 release causes the Google and Yahoo! toolbars to vanish. As Dean stated in Scoble’s blog , we support Google’s and Yahoo’s (and anyone else’s) toolbar in Beta 1 and will do so in the final
Posted by ieblog | 114 Comments
Monday, May 16, 2005 1:31 AM

IE7 Has Tabs

Yes, IE7 has tabs. In general, I think tabs are a great idea. I liked them a lot in Office dialogs and in Excel in the early 90's. (I used to work on Office, and I admit we almost added tabs to Word at one point.) I like them in Visual Studio. I think,
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Monday, May 09, 2005 2:29 PM

Security is an Industry Problem

I've received enough questions in email from different people about a recent vulnerability in another browser that I wanted to post something here. I think the best place for the facts is with the people responsible for the browser. I say this based on
Posted by ieblog | 48 Comments
Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:29 PM

Netscape 8 Beta, the IE Platform, and the IE Browser

I haven’t tried the Netscape beta yet, but I have read that it allows users to switch between the Gecko rendering engine (the one used in Firefox) and Internet Explorer’s rendering engine. I think this a good opportunity to write about the Windows Web
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:50 PM

A fresh IE security update

Earlier this week we released the latest security update for IE, MS04-038 . We’ve been working on this since XPSP2 shipped, and it’s nice to see it made available to customers on Windows Update . This update addresses, among other issues, the drag &
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