Category: Microsoft
Another IE9 Ad Spotted
It appears that Microsoft is trying really hard to hype its web browser. With previously spotted IE9 ads, here is another one, straight from eHow web site.
If you happen to click on it, ad will redirect you to the following page:
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Internet Explorer 9: Two Million Downloads and Counting
According to Microsoft, with the recent Internet Explorer 9 Beta release, browser was already downloaded more than 2 million times over the period of two days. Considering overall hype, those numbers do look okay.
In comparison, IE8 Beta was downloaded only 1.3 million times and it took them five days to do so.
Microsoft Wants Reddit Feedback
It looks like Microsoft continues its advertising campaign. This time, company asked Reddit users for the Internet Explorer 9 feedback.
If you have Reddit account already and want to provide some constructive criticism, head over to the following page and share your IE9 experience.
The installation took way too much time for a browser.
I didn’t like the fact a complete reboot is needed to use IE
That blank space over the tabs is useless.
Search field and tabs should not be on the same row.
Internet Explorer 9 Live Webcast
The wait is almost over. Today, Microsoft will reveal everyone’s anticipated, Internet Explorer 9 web browser.
Can’t make it to San Francisco? Well, worry no more. You can tune in into the live webcast on Wednesday, 10:30am PST and experience “the beauty of the web” event for yourself.
Weekly Questions Recap, September 14th
Unresolved
- How to uninstall Interent Explorer on Windows 7?
- How to open all links in new window automatically in Firefox?
- How to update Google Chrome?
- Which Browser Will Dominate In Market Share Within The Next 6 Months?
- How to remove border links around images in web browsre?
Answered
None
Bing Includes HTML5, Becomes Awesome
Here is an amazing video that shows off the capabilities of HTML5 on Bing search engine.
With the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 Final release, (that supports HTML5) we are eager to experience the power of such interface on any mainstream web browser.
Fake IE9 Video Leaks, Press Freaks Out
There seem to be a lot of buzz about the recently “leaked” IE9 video. If you have yet to see it, check the video above.
What boggles my mind is the fact that quite a few tech sites consider it to be real and already discussing “how clean the UI is”. Seriously, people?
P.S. Boy oh boy, what if this video turns out to be a real thing and IE9 is actually that bad…
Microsoft Starts Advertising IE9
Although IE9 is yet to be released, it looks like software giant Microsoft has already began rolling ad campaign to promote upcoming web browser.
One of such ads was noticed by IStartedSomething on TechCrunch blog and it’s highly likely that similar banners are shown over dozens of blogs and/or popular sites.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 30th
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• Internet Explorer 9 UI Screenshot, Features
Out of all potential IE9 “leaks” and concepts, this one is definitely the most plausible.
• Facebook Chat to Stop Supporting IE6
According to Facebook blog post, company will be dropping Internet Explorer 6 support for its chat application…
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Internet Explorer 9 UI Screenshot, Features
Out of all potential IE9 “leaks” and concepts, this one is definitely the most plausible.
MS4Press.ru has written an article called “5 new opportunities with IE9″ (translated title) that did include the following screenshot.
Obviously, mentioned post has been removed since then and the higher resolution image is not yet available.
If you are curious enough about the content, here is a cached version from Bing + Google Translate:
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