Windows Phone ‘Mango’ search offers location-specific results, app integration (video)

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Windows Phone’s latest iteration (codename Mango) is all about keeping it in the hood. We had a chance to sit down with a Windows Phone rep before today’s big reveal, and they let us in on a couple of new features that will most definitely set the OS apart — at least when it comes [...]

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Evolve or die: IE10 preview won’t work on Vista

Apr 18, 2011 No Comments

Written by Dwight Silverman, Houston ChronicleRead this article on its original site When Internet Explorer 9 was developed and released, Microsoft made a conscious decision to exclude Windows XP users from its new-browser party… Tweet This Post

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Microsoft’s latest marketing mumbo-jumbo? ‘Native HTML5′ and IE10

Apr 14, 2011 No Comments

There’s a reason I’ve been putting off writing about Microsoft’s teasing of Internet Explorer 10 on Tuesday: The announcement was padded with a lot of nothing. At its MIX11 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveiled the first preview of the next version of Internet Explorer – less than a month after officially releasing Internet Explorer [...]

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Microsoft Unveils First Internet Explorer 10 Preview

Apr 12, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has released the first platform preview for Internet Explorer 10, less than a month after the launch its much-hyped Internet Explorer 9 browser.The technology giant unveiled IE10 earlier today at its Mix11 developer conference in Las Vegas… Tweet This Post

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IE9 is the most energy-efficient modern browser, according to Microsoft’s own testing

Mar 29, 2011 No Comments

Of all the battlefields we’ve witnessed in the browser wars, this one’s never really crossed our minds before: energy efficiency. Yes, the power efficiency of a piece of software, not hardware, is being touted by Microsoft as a differentiating feature for its fresh new Internet Explorer 9… Tweet This Post

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Microsoft Says Internet Explorer 9 Is the Most Energy-Efficient Browser

Mar 29, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has made many claims about IE9′s speed, but now the company is saying the latest version of its browser also bests the competition in terms of energy use.Based on several tests conducted by Microsoft, it would seem that IE9 makes fewer demands on a computer’s battery — at least in certain scenarios… Tweet This [...]

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Firefox 4 blows away Internet Explorer 9 with first day downloads

Mar 23, 2011 No Comments

As if you needed a reminder that the next browser wars have begun, Mozilla’s Firefox 4 browser managed to double Internet Explorer 9’s first day downloads in less than 24 hours, CNet reports. CNet noted that Firefox 4 had 4… Tweet This Post

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StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9

Mar 23, 2011 No Comments

Mozilla has just released Firefox 4, and in less than a day clocked more than twice the downloads Microsoft boasted about after the release of Internet Explorer 9. Now website analytics company StatCounter says the browser has already taken 1… Tweet This Post

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Video: Installing and using IE1 through IE9

Mar 19, 2011 No Comments

With Monday evening’s release of Internet Explorer 9, we’ve got another “through the years” video from the same guy who did that interesting one on Windows. Andrew Tait (or “TheRasteri” on YouTube) installed IE versions 1 through 9 on physical and virtual machines to test out their Web-standards compatibility and features – and take a [...]

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Internet Explorer 9: 2.3 million downloads in 24 hours

Mar 18, 2011 No Comments

In the first 24 hours after Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 on Monday evening, the new Web browser was downloaded 2.3 million times, Microsoft said Wednesday. That computes to about 27 downloads every second… Tweet This Post

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Microsoft: IE9 Downloaded 27 Times Per Second

Mar 16, 2011 No Comments

Internet Explorer 9, which was released Monday, was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, according to Microsoft. The beta version of this iteration of the browser was downloaded only 1 million times during the first day of its availability… Tweet This Post

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Microsoft releasing Internet Explorer 9 tonight

Mar 15, 2011 No Comments

Is Internet Explorer 9 cool enough for the famous South by Southwest music festival? It may be — Microsoft is launching the new Web browser during an event at the Austin, Texas, gala at 9 p.m. today… Tweet This Post

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