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POOLE, England, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As Microsoft plans to offer another public beta of IE8 at the start of 2009, Internet Explorer's Senior Product Manager, James Pratt, explains to Zeta how IE8's 'standards mode' will tackle web standards compliancy. Microsoft wants to deliver the most secure and reliable version of Internet Explorer, Pratt says: "Our goals are to create a faster, easier web browsing experience for the things users do every day on the web." Microsoft...

OTTAWA and RESTON, Va., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Brigade (http://www.thirdbrigade.com), experts in server and application protection, today announced that its customers which have deployed Third Brigade Deep Security are protected from attacks that could exploit a critical remote code execution vulnerability that exists in the Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 7 browser. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. Trend...

After 100 days of its debut, Google is taking its Web browser out of the test mode state.Chrome, Google's browser, is an important step for Google in their attempt to lure Web surfers away from leading browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox.Google hopes that Chrome will give better insights about users' preferences and extend the popularity of its online applications, which are suppose to run more smoothly using Chrome.Chrome has attracted more than 10 million active users from around...

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday released two security patches for Windows and Office, including one to fix a critical flaw that was discovered almost two years ago. Microsoft said the critical patch fixes three separate flaws in XML Core Services, the component that not only provides interoperability between several scripting languages -- including JScript and Visual Studio -- and XML applications, but more importantly allows Internet Explorer to render XML-based content."The XML Core Services...

Despite the past rivalry, Microsoft Corp has turned to Sun Microsystems Inc for marketing help in an effort to increase Internet search traffic.Sun will promote a Microsoft toolbar for the Internet Explorer browser to U.S.-based Web surfers as they download Sun's Java software.  The toolbar has a built-in box for queries to Microsoft's Live Search and buttons that allow people to have access to MSN content."We need to provide more volume to our advertisers," said Angus Norton, a...

Q. I read your recent column about running Windows on a Mac. Is there a way to run the Mac OS X operating system on a PC, like a Dell or a Sony? A. Yes, but it is really only for tinkerers and hackers, and even then it may not work fully or smoothly. Apple makes the process difficult, both technically and legally, because, unlike Microsoft, it is not in the business of selling its operating system for use on other companies' hardware. Therefore, I know of no simple software for average...

By Heather Hamilton Dear Heather: We use Outlook Express for our e-mail. I have read that it is possible to retrieve deleted e-mails. Particularly, I have read about this in recovering government or investment firm's e-mails that have been deleted in the past. Do you know how we can retrieve e-mails that have been deleted from Outlook Express? - Mary H. A: This is a really interesting question because it covers a range of possible answers. After the scandals this decade, it's a...

By PETER GRAD "You may delay, but time will not." -- Benjamin Franklin Has yet another summer come and gone? I hope yours was a great one, and that you spent your time -- as Ben would have wanted you to -- wisely. I've been thinking of time in the days leading up to my return from summer hiatus. The relocation of my column to the Business section brings back memories: It was 13 summers ago that my column, then called "The Computer Tutor," debuted as an experiment in Business to kick off...

By Troy Wolverton Chrome, Google's shiny new Web browser, has some eye-catching features, but I'm not ready to trade in Firefox for it. I downloaded Chrome last week, when it first became available. I haven't run any benchmark tests on it, but my impression is that it's generally about as fast as Firefox, which is my everyday browser. However, I had a hard time figuring out how to do simple tasks like printing in Chrome, found it more difficult to search sites other than Google and was...

I'm considering giving up my reviews of Internet browsers in the future. Things are changing far too quickly to keep abreast of developments and it seems once I've got on top of things the entire playing field changes dramatically and I have to start again from scratch. Some might argue that I spend too much time on the subject of web browsers but due to the huge differences between them, along with the large amount of time the average user spends using one, I would have to disagree. It...