The result is what its users will tell you is a superior piece of engineering to Microsoft IE.
So of course, we figure that we can hack our Pocket PC with RegKing to report that it is running Microsoft IE 5.5 .
The anticipated add-on, along with similar tools already included in the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft IE 9 browsers, leaves Google Chrome as the only major browser provider not to offer a do-not-track feature.
Post-6.1, WinMo will indeed have its app suite revamped, including a desktop-grade port of IE to Windows Mobile, which Microsoft is replacing pocket IE with and directly targeting mobile Safari.
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Microsoft said it affected IE with Service Pack 1 installed but only if visiting websites that use data compression and the widely used version 1.1 of the HTTP web protocols.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or IE, has an 85% global share and comes loaded on every PC with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
She lasted through the company's downturn, precipitated by Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows, a move the Justice Department determined was illegal.
Mozilla says its latest version of open-sourced Firefox was downloaded 7.1 million times, while Microsoft reported last week that IE 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times.
Microsoft agrees -- but maintains IE is as compliant as any other browser available.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.
The program still identifies itself (in brackets) as IE 11, but it forgoes Microsoft's older identifier ("MSIE") and simply describes itself as being a browser that renders HTML in a similar way to Firefox's Gecko layout engine.
But now that Microsoft is releasing operating systems that do not support IE 6 and 7, and most certainly do not support those off standard things which the apps are using, this is stopping users from migrating their OS up the series as Microsoft would like them to.
Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by Data Execution Prevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.
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Today, Microsoft has announced new tools and resources to help developers test sites on not only IE 10 (as well as 9) but older versions of browsers.
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He believes that even if a consumer uses IE, they still benefit from having competitors in the browser market because Microsoft takes notice of what the competition is doing.
Microsoft has issued a warning about a serious vulnerability in all versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
On Wednesday, Microsoft released a security advisory warning users of active attacks using a previously unknown bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that affects users of versions six, seven of the browser.
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