Will Internet Explorer ever be safe to use? Once again, users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser are at risk. Microsoft recently discovered a vulnerability that could allow a user to turn your system in to a fileserver for your private documents. Most versions of Internet Explorer are affected. Microsoft has said that any system …
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Feb
01
2010
Google to start phasing out IE6
Good for them! I’m really glad to hear that Google, the biggest search engine on the planet, is to start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6, after years of it causing problems for the company. From March 1st, Google says that some Google applications will stop working. This means that users will be forced to …
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Jul
30
2009
Microsoft extending browser choice to XP and Vista as well as Windows 7
Remember a while back when I was talking about Microsoft giving users the choice of which browser they use in Windows 7? Well, Microsoft is apparently now going extend this consideration to Windows XP and Vista too. From what I’ve heard from various sites on the net, Microsoft will be releasing an update (via Windows …
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