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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 . . .

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Continues Frantic Download Pace

In a recent post on the Exploring IE Blog Roger Capriotti, who is the Director of IE Product Marketing, revealed some impressive stats concerning Internet Explorer browsers.

At the end of 2009 IE6 and IE7 accounted for 38.51% of web browser users and IE8 had 24.15%. At the end of 2010 IE6 . . .

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Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Yesterday Microsoft released a security advisory that provided some information about a recently discovered vulnerability in IE6, IE7 and IE8 that they are looking into.  Please take note of how your system already has some safeguards in place to prevent this attack from hitting you and your PC.

The vulnerability exists due . . .

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Update: IE9 Visits at WindowsObserver.com

While I was on the road this past week I posted a story about Internet Explorer 9’s Continued Growth and I did not have access to my server logs to update the graphs I shared 5 days after IE9 Beta was released in mid September.

Now that I am home I can . . .

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Growth Continues

Yesterday on the Exploring IE Blog Ryan Gavin wrote about the continued growth of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta since it was released just over two weeks ago.

He revealed that the beta has now been downloaded over 6 million times and already has a 0.25% usage share across the web.

The . . .

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Microsoft Internet Explorer VHD Test Image Updated

If you create and design websites then you know how important it is to view your sites in different web browsers to see how it will look in each browser.

An easy way to do this is to run Virtual PC and this recently updated VHD which contains the last three . . .

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