Technologizer

Thoroughly Modern IE9?

Thursday, November 19, 2009

As expected, Microsoft began talking about Internet Explorer 9 in public yesterday at its PDC event in Los Angeles. So far, it’s only talking about its guts–but it’s working on two of the items from my personal IE9 wishlist, faster JavaScript and the beginnings of HTML5 support. Microsoft browser honcho, Dean Hachamovitch, has a blog [...]

Here’s My Internet Explorer 9 Wish List. What’s on Yours?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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According to Neowin’s Tom Warren and Cnet News’s Ina Fried, Microsoft will have something–maybe just a little something, but something–to say about its plans for Internet Explorer 9 at its Professional Developers’ Conference in Los Angeles tomorrow. The company often briefs tech reporters in advance about major announcements, but it hasn’t told me a darn [...]

Internet Explorer’s New Spokesperson

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Now, this is an IE ad that’s entertaining rather than repulsive–and probably a smart choice of an endorser of interest to the sort of folks who IE8 and its Web Slices feature will appeal to the most. Kinda reminds me of when Microsoft dragged out Queen Latifah to pal around with Bill [...]

Google Burrows into Internet Explorer

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Today, Google announced a plug-in for Internet Explorer that usurps the IE browsing engine’s role, rendering pages with Google Chrome instead. The plug-in, called Google Chrome Frame, targets Web developers who must program around IE 6’s proprietary quirks. Internet Explorer remains the world’s dominant Web browser, but many of its users are running archaic versions of [...]

Should Microsoft Kill IE6?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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A few weeks ago, a blog post at Digg talked about Internet Explorer 6, the challenges Web sites have in continuing to support it, and the declining-but-still-meaningful percentage of Web users who run it–often because it’s still the browser provided at work. IE honcho Dean Hachamovitch responded yesterday at the official IEblog: “The choice to [...]

Why Can’t All Software Installation Be Like This?

Friday, July 17, 2009

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Microsoft is saying it’ll roll out an update to Internet Explorer 8 in August with a tweak to the setup routine which I just love. If you have another browser set as the default, you’ll see this dialog when you run IE for the first time: Not only does it not set IE as the default [...]

Will Anyone Ever Abandon Another Browser for IE 8?

Monday, July 6, 2009

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Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch has noticed that StatCounter’s browser market share data shows Internet Explorer usage in surprisingly sharp decline. According to StatCounter, IE has lost 11.4 percentage points to Firefox and other browsers in the U.S. since March, leaving it with 54.4 percent of the market. If IE loses another half a point of [...]

Worst. Tech. Commercial. Ever?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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I’m still having trouble keeping solid food down after having been exposed to the Internet Explorer 8 ad that involves a woman projectile-vomiting after accidentally seeing a site her husband had been viewing. But I’m moving on from being appalled to trying to answer an important question: Is it the single worst commercial for a [...]

Firefox 3.5: The Technologizer Review

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Was it really fewer than five years ago that Firefox 1.0 debuted? Its arrival ended the dismal period in which only one browser–Microsoft’s mediocre Internet Explorer–seemed to be viable. With Firefox, Mozilla proved that millions of people were itching to adopt a better browser. And today, we find ourselves with multiple better browsers: Not just [...]

Microsoft’s Odd (and, in One Case, Utterly Revolting) Ads for Internet Explorer

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Internet Explorer 8 is a decent browser, but there’s a new ad for it (showing only online, according to Idsgn, which is where I read about it by way of Daring Fireball) that not only doesn’t make me want to use IE, but has me contemplating going door to door, beseeching my fellow human beings [...]

Europe Gives Internet Explorer the Boot from Windows 7. Big Deal!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Looks like any lingering question about the European Union’s antitrust case against Microsoft delaying the release of Windows 7 just ended. Earlier today, Cnet’s Ina Fried reported that Microsoft will release versions of the new OS that are sans Internet Explorer for sale in Europe. Microsoft has confirmed its intentions. The Europe-only versions of Windows 7 [...]