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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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Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Updates Available

Microsoft has posted the latest monthly update for the IE8 Compatibility Views List to the Microsoft Download Center:

Internet Explorer 8 renders content in the most standards-compliant way possible. This means that web pages will be displayed in Internet Explorer 8’s standards mode by default. Through product feedback channels, our users have . . .

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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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Download Internet Explorer 8 Optimized for Bing and MSN

Microsoft has released an optimized version of Internet Explorer 8 that is already pre-configured to give you easy access to the MSN Homepage, Bing search and the Bing bar.

MSN Homepage – Something you care about is happening right now. In the news. Around your neighborhood. And across the Web. That’s why . . .

Read More: Download Internet Explorer 8 Optimized for Bing and MSN