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You Can Play Cut The Rope For Free But Only If You Choose To Do It on IE (Chrome Too!)

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Yes – that title rhymes – on purpose.

Yesterday Microsoft released a version of Cut The Rope to highlight the capabilities of Internet Explorer.

To do this, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team partnered with ZeptoLab (the creators of the game) and the specialists at Pixel Lab to bring Cut the Rope to life . . .

Read More: You Can Play Cut The Rope For Free But Only If You Choose To Do It on IE (Chrome Too!)

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35

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Welcome to Episode 35 of the Observed Tech PODCAST and the year 2012! This is our first episode for the new year and we appreciate all of your support in 2011 when you downloaded the PODCAST over 5,000 times. In this show we discuss Tech Podcast Networks CES 2012 coverage which will be live streamed here at WindowsObserver.com; how your digital signature impacts your job hunt; IE improvements on Windows 7 but overall decline continues; wish list for Windows Phone in 2012; NASA’s Grail spacecraft enter lunar orbit; Xbox Live online safety controls; trying to spend a $1,000,000 bill; Facebooking a stolen ring; getting sued for your Twitter followers; Facebook says farewell to Internet Explorer 7; Verizon decides against $2 fee; using your bottom for ID; Arfa – world’s youngest MCP not doing well; If This Then That service; Windows Phone Marketplace passes 50,000 apps; Windows Phone SMS bug being fixed; 300 million mobile Facebook users; community wireless Internet project; spam at lowest level in three years; New York Times spams its own readers; cyber security is important to small businesses; businesses charging $100 to set-up your new PC; backup and restore coming to Windows Phone soon and Microsoft does not call you to fix your PC – it is a scam. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com . . .

Read More: Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35

Internet Explorer Global Usage Increases In November 2011

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According to StatCounter and its global statistics service Internet Explorer’s steady drop in usage on a world wide basis stopped in November 2011 with a small increase from 40.18% in October 2011 to 40.63% for November 2011. There has not been any new releases of IE in the last month or two . . .

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Fever Pitched Episode 2: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 30 November 2011

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Fever Pitched is a summary of the top three stories from my Fever RSS Aggregator over the past week.

Microsoft SkyDrive.  The software giants cloud storage and sharing service received major usability and performance enhancements this week.

SkyDrive gets simple app-centric sharing for Office, powerful file management, . . .

Read More: Fever Pitched Episode 2: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 30 November 2011

Do Not Track: Other Browsers Follow Internet Explorer’s Lead

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User privacy continues to draw a lot of attention and the latest effort to secure your information is now coming to some of the most popular web browsers.

This new feature is called Do Not Track and gives you the option to allow . . .

Read More: Do Not Track: Other Browsers Follow Internet Explorer’s Lead

Recent Knowledge Base and Support Articles from Microsoft

The articles were posted at the Microsoft Support site concerning Internet Explorer and Windows.

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How to troubleshoot script errors in Internet Explorer on Windows-based computers Describes how to troubleshoot script errors in Internet Explorer on Windows-based computers. An update is available to fix a data corruption issue for Secure Digital (SD) . . .

Read More: Recent Knowledge Base and Support Articles from Microsoft