143 posts and columns on Internet Explorer

Attention Marc Andreessen: Microsoft Just Bought (Part of) Netscape

in News on April 9 at 6:54 am PT

It’s part of the $1 billion AOL patent deal, and it’s something that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s.
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Internet Explorer on the Upswing

in News on April 3 at 5:29 am PT

Could IE’s slump finally be over?
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Still Waiting on Office for iPad? OnLive’s New Subscription Service Has Office, Flash and More.

in News on February 22 at 4:55 pm PT

For those of you still holding your breath while you wait for an official Microsoft Office app to come to iPad, here’s something that might help in the interim: OnLive Desktop Plus, a premium, $4.99-a-month version of the OnLive Desktop app for iPad and other tablet devices. The newest version of the app offers a cloud-based Internet Explorer 9, Adobe Flash, and PDF capabilities, in addition to the full Office suite and the “accelerated browsing experience” that OnLive created for fast pushing and pulling of data on a remote-access desktop.

Microsoft: Google Bypasses Privacy Settings in Internet Explorer, Too

in News on February 20 at 7:43 pm PT

A few days after a Wall Street Journal report said Google was bypassing privacy settings in Safari to track users, Microsoft is alleging that the search giant is doing the same thing with Internet Explorer.
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Going Back to Internet Explorer

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 11 at 3:59 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question about security holes in Web browsers.

Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo

in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.
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Mozilla Says Google Relationship in “Active Negotiations”

in News on December 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Mozilla today responded to public scrutiny of renewal of its key revenue deal with Google by replying that it is “in active negotiations” with its major partner and competitor.
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Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews

in Personal Technology on November 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT

Walt reflects on two decades of covering personal-consumer products and offers his thoughts on what technological gains might be next.
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Apple’s Safari Browser Share Tops Five Percent for First Time

in News on October 1, 2011 at 12:08 am PT

Apple gained nearly half a percentage point in the operating system market as well, accounting for 6.45 percent of computers accessing the Internet, according to Net Applications.
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Windows 8’s New-Style Browser Doesn’t Run Flash

in Mobile on September 15, 2011 at 10:44 am PT

And Microsoft loses a selling point that Windows 8 tablets could have had over the iPad. (Update: No Silverlight in touch-first version of IE 10 either)
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Online Shopping on the Side

in Personal Technology, September 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT

VMware CEO Paul Maritz Talks About the Cloud Monster, Microsoft and More! (Video)

in Enterprise, July 13, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

With IE9 Barely Out the Door, Here Comes IE10

in News, April 12, 2011 at 11:10 am PT

Opera Mini Returns to GetJar, With App Store Removed

in Mobile, April 1, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

New, Lean Firefox 4: Re-Built to Play Catch-Up

in Personal Technology, March 30, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

Firefox 4 First-Day Downloads Outstrip IE9's, Fall Short of Firefox 3 Record

in Social, March 23, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

Microsoft’s Advertising Arm Still Weighing "Do Not Track"

in News, March 22, 2011 at 9:57 am PT

Microsoft Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to Browser

in News, March 15, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Microsoft Plans March 14 Launch for New Internet Explorer 9 Browser

With Appia Deal, Browser Maker Opera Hops on App Store Train

in Mobile, March 7, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs Talks Firefox 4, Competition With Google's Chrome and More! (Video)

in News, February 24, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

Lawmaker Introduces New Privacy Bill

in News, February 11, 2011 at 3:19 pm PT

Near-Final Version of Microsoft's IE9 Released

The Empire Strikes Back: Microsoft Goes After Google on Web Video Formats

in Mobile, February 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Full D@CES Interview Video: Microsoft Internet Explorer’s Dean Hachamovitch

in D at CES, January 19, 2011 at 9:17 am PT