So you may have noticed the web kicking off about how you can now play addictive life-drainer Cut the Rope online for free. It’s part of an Internet Explorer marketing gimmick, but we’ve discovered a dirty secret behind the whole thing… Read more
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Anyone who has had to deal with the sorry state of their parent’s PC or a stubborn IT department’s refusal to get with ter program and update a browser may soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Microsoft is changing the way its Windows Update works so that it will be able to silently update your software in the background, just like Chrome and Firefox do already.
Now more than a decade old, Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of many web developer’s lives. Buggy, insecure, seemingly at war with web standards and still installed on a depressing 8.4 percent of PCs by Microsoft’s own figures. Now though, Redmond really is doing all it can to kill it.
Google has accused Microsoft Bing of recycling search results from Google searches using click tracking assisted by a combination of Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Bing Toolbar.
In a sting operation detailed on the official Google blog, Google created fake search results to see whether they migrated from Google to Bing and they did. Microsoft denies that Bing has stolen anything but Google is firm in its belief and followed up its first post with another set of screenshots…
Microsoft’s Russian has accidentally posted a picture and some details of the next incarnation of Internet Explorer – IE9. The browser – which is not due for release until next month – seems to be taking a few pointers from rivals , in particular Google’s Chrome.
Windows Phone 7 hasn’t hit the shelves yet but it’s already scored a win in a showdown against the newly arrived Blackberry Torch 9800. Pitted in a battle of the browsers, a Windows Phone 7 prototype outclassed the freshly picked Blackberry and the new Blackberry 6 OS. Is it just a one off or a real worry for RIM?
Google is set to end support for Internet Explorer 6 for all its services, beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites in March. If you’re still rocking the aging Internet Explorer 6 and want to keep going with Google, read on to find out what to do next…
Microsoft’s ten year anti-trust battle with the European Union over pre-installing Internet Explorer has finally come to an end. Microsoft will now offer users a choice of web browsers which could mean Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox all find themselves with a shedload of new users.
Nvidia’s 3D Vision system is about to get a lot more useful: the graphics giant just confirmed it’s adding support for Google Earth and in-browser 3D. Flickr in the third dimension, anyone?