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

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

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.

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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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