Posted March 12, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Starting today, Microsoft says Internet Explorer 10 will enable Adobe Flash content by default while immersive mode is engaged (i.e. "Metro mode" for IE). The change will be delivered via Microsoft's usual round of "Patch Tuesday" updates for both Windows…
Windows 7 users have had access to a release preview of Internet Explorer 10 for a few months now, but now Microsoft is making the final release available on the platform for the first time since the browser’s debut on…
Posted November 13, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, Microsoft
Aside from Microsoft's unilateral decision to enable Do-Not-Track by default, the most controversial thing about Internet Explorer 10 may have been its limited platform support. Except for its first couple of previews, the browser has remained compatible only for flavors…
Microsoft's decision to enable Do Not Track in IE10 by default is still managing to elicit industry criticism. Yahoo is the latest company to ignore IE10's on-by-default DNT policy, joining Apache in not recognizing the browser's DNT setting. Yahoo reasons that…
Posted October 17, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Those still not sold on the idea of upgrading to Windows 8 will have to wait a bit before gaining access to Microsoft’s next generation web browser in Windows 7. The company has revealed that IE10 will be coming to…
Posted September 11, 2012, 5:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
An Apache HTTP webserver developer has stirred up controversy after releasing an update for the webserver application to Github that ignores Internet Explorer 10's "Do Not Track" (DNT) settings. Roy Fielding, an architect of the DNT standard, an Adobe employee…
Posted September 6, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
Are you running the Windows 8 RTM yet? If you are, you may want to be careful out there, suggests Ed Bott from ZDNet. Internet Explorer 10's embedded Flash component suffers from a number of critical vulnerabilities which allow hackers…
Yesterday, Microsoft posted an interesting look at the current state of Internet Explorer 10 on its MSDN blog. In the article, readers will discover that Microsoft is touting a faster and more fluid experience, natural touch and gesture control, metro-influenced…
Posted April 12, 2012, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
A Microsoft product roadmap has leaked onto the net recently that shows several new items in the pipeline through 2014. The screenshots in question are dated December 22, 2011 and were recently posted on Twitter by Maarten Visser, CEO of…
Microsoft has described in detail their Windows on ARM architecture in a bid to clear up confusion regarding the upcoming Windows 8 release. The exhaustive post by Steven Sinofsky on the MSDN Building Windows 8 blog gives a clear perspective…
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