Internet Explorer

Going Back to Internet Explorer

Walt Mossberg 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

Kara Swisher 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.

Mozilla Says Google Relationship in “Active Negotiations”

Liz Gannes 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.

Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews

Walt Mossberg 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.

Apple’s Safari Browser Share Tops Five Percent for First Time

Ina Fried 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.

Windows 8’s New-Style Browser Doesn’t Run Flash

Ina Fried 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)

Online Shopping on the Side

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

Walt reviews Digital Folio, free software that lets you gather online shopping products to compare retailer prices.

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

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

VMware CEO Paul Maritz has his hands full trying to keep the lead in the hyper-competitive virtualization space, as more and more businesses move into the cloud. He talks about the complexities and the competition with companies like Microsoft, where — irony alert — he was a former top exec and is often mentioned as the best candidate to be its next CEO.

With IE9 Barely Out the Door, Here Comes IE10

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

Internet Explorer 9 hasn’t even been live for a month and already Microsoft is preparing the way for its successor: IE10. The company released a developer preview of the browser, which it showed off for the first time at its MIX 11 conference this morning. Like its predecessor, IE10 is being designed for HTML5 and built with full hardware acceleration. In the words of Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, it’s intended to make sites feel and run more like native applications than Web pages. Little wonder industry observers expect IE10 to be the browser Microsoft includes in Windows 8 when it finally ships.

Opera Mini Returns to GetJar, With App Store Removed

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

GetJar is once again offering the Opera Mini browser, albeit with one big modification. GetJar pulled Opera’s browsers last month after Opera began offering a rival app store from within its mobile browsers. Now Opera is back on GetJar’s virtual shelves, but without the app store.