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The IE team, for its part, will say nothing more than what it posted on October 4 to the IE Team Blog: “Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users”

My attempts to interview Chris Wilson, Microsoft’s platform architect for Internet Explorer, appear threatened by technical difficulties even before the discussion begins. His temporary-conference-visitor speaker phone in Sydney won’t work, then my computer crashes just before the interview starts, which in the sub-planet of Vista I’m forced to inhabit means a ten-minute reboot time.

How far along is Microsoft with the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) — which might be IE 7.5 or IE 8.0, depending on what Microsoft decided to do since last time we heard anything truly tangible from the IE team (which was about a year ago)? Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafeningPosters on […]

When is your shiny new Windows Vista protected against evil Web threats? Not as often as we were all led to believe in those Microsoft Windows Vista ads. I ran across this post from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer blog site shortly after the software giant patched the animated cursor flaw in Windows Vista with the release […]

Hackers are trying to trick prospective marks into loading malware that poses as "beta" version of Internet Explorer 7. Widely circulated emails, which pose as messages from admin@microsoft.com and feature subject lines such as "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads", display an image which invites gullible users to download beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7. Users who […]

Microsoft released its long-awaited Internet Explorer 7.0 browser on Oct. 19. The free download allows Windows users to replace IE 6.0, which hasn’t had a serious feature update since it first came out in 2002. IE 6 has been a serious p.r. problem for the Redmond software company, producing a string of warnings — seemingly […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser may have the lion’s share of the general market, but when it comes to security types, Mozilla’s Firefox open source browser is an even contender, according to a security survey released Monday. Security-minded people also were quicker to try out Internet Explorer version 7, researchers with the SANS Institute found, though […]

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser could help fraudsters make phishing websites appear legitimate, a security researcher reported Wednesday. The flaw lies in the way IE7 processes a locally stored HTML error message page that is typically shown when the user cancels the loading of a webpage, said Aviv Raff, a security researcher […]

Mozilla is still wrestling with adding a security feature to Firefox that its browser rival, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, uses on Windows Vista to keep malware from hijacking computers. In Vista, IE7 uses a technique Microsoft calls Protected Mode – another name for "low rights" - that blocks disk access to all but a temporary-files […]

This update addresses an issue experienced by some users where CPU usage is high when they are navigating a page that contains multiple frames or when multiple frames are navigated simultaneously. This occurs when the phishing filter evaluates the page for each navigation, resulting in multiple simultaneous evaluations for the same page. If you have […]