Latest Internet Explorer Stories

Google is continuing efforts to establish itself in the web browser market by the release of a new version of its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday, Reuters reported.It is the first large-scale update of Chrome since Google entered the browser business six months ago.Google claims the new update will give users faster performance and several new features like auto-filling of personal information on online forms and a new way for users to drag around tabs of different Web pages within the...

- Update MS09-008, Released Yesterday, Was Meant to Patch Windows DNS and WINS Servers - The Patch Does Not Effectively Protect Against a Vulnerability in DNS Servers that Could be Exploited by Cyber-crooks to Redirect Users to a Malicious Proxy - Cyber-crooks Could Monitor Users' Internet Movements, Access their Confidential Data and Even Redirect them to Malicious Web Pages GLENDALE, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory,...

As the European Commission probes antitrust charges related to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Google Inc. has spoken up."Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users," Sundar Pichai, Google vice president product manager, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.Google's Chrome browser was introduced last year, and has take very little of the market share.The Internet company has teamed up with Mozilla foundation,...

The European Commission may order Microsoft Corp. to provide Windows users a clear and simple choice of Web browsers, and may even require the software giant to allow customers to disable its Internet Explorer system, a commission spokesman said Tuesday."The Commission would consider ordering Microsoft to give users an objective opportunity to choose which competing web browsers instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install in Windows," said the...

BEIJING, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Maxthon International this week posted a new beta version of its namesake browser, Maxthon 2.5.1, that includes a feature -- The Isolator, that separates the functions of each Web tab from all other tabs and other parts of the browser. The Isolator protects other tabs from also becoming frozen because a single unresponsive tab is monopolizing a computer's resources. Maxthon's engineers redesigned the browser's framework so that each tab...

Microsoft Corp. is boasting the release of Internet Explorer 8 as "faster, easier and safer than ever."The release of IE 8 comes in the midst of a Microsoft's browser battle with rivals Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. "We have made IE 8 the best browser for the way people really do use the web," said Microsoft's Amy Barzdukas."Microsoft needs to say these things because it continues to lose market share to Firefox, Chrome and Safari," Gartner analyst...

Tying Internet Explorer to Microsoft's Windows operating platform gives the program an unfair advantage in the marketplace, the European Commission found. In a preliminary ruling, the commission said tying the two products together makes Internet Explorer available on 90 percent of the world's personal computers, Zdnet reported Monday. Internet Explorer is so prevalent it creates an incentive for Web site designers and software developers to create products compatible with it, further...

The European Commission said Friday that Microsoft Corp. was stifling competition by combining its Internet Explorer Web browser with Windows.The accusations open a new front on the contentious, costly and long-standing battle between the European Union's executive arm and the No.1 software maker. The Commission said it had reached a preliminary opinion that Microsoft had prevented rival browsers from competing, and had violated EU rules on the abuse of dominant market position.The Commission...

REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "Yesterday Microsoft received a Statement of Objections from the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. The Statement of Objections expresses the Commission's preliminary view that the inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows since 1996 has violated European competition law. According to the Statement of Objections, other browsers are foreclosed from competing because Windows includes Internet Explorer. The...

An Internet Explorer security hole has exposed millions of users to hackers, leading Microsoft Corp. to take unusual steps for an emergency fix.This flaw known as the "zero-day" vulnerability, allows criminals to take over their victims' machines simply by steering them to infected Web sites.  The users do not have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the security hole in Internet Explorer's programming code dangerous.  Internet Explorer is the...