Stats: Chrome, Safari gain on Internet Explorer and Firefox

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Overall usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox fell slightly in July, while Google Chrome and Apple Safari both posted modest gains, according to numbers tracked by Net Applications. The numbers are notable in part because they reflect the first full-month measure of the market since Firefox shifted to a new rapid release cycle. IE… Read More…

The Internet Explorer IQ test: Come on, we’re not that dumb

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A study released this past week by AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., “psychometric consulting” company, found that Internet Explorer users, on average, scored lower on IQ tests than users of other browsers did. Users of older versions of Internet Explorer — IE 6 and IE 7 — fared particularly poorly, with average IQ scores in the 80s…. Read More…

Microsoft issues new Internet Explorer 10 tech preview

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Microsoft today released a new preview of the technology going into Internet Explorer 10, the next version of its web browser, including capabilities designed to make web applications work more like traditional PC desktop programs. The preview, available via the Internet Explorer Test Drive site, includes technology for dragging and dropping objects around a web… Read More…

Rapid releases for Firefox: An opportunity for Internet Explorer?

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Years ago, Microsoft hobbled its browser business by allowing five years to pass between the release of new Internet Explorer versions. Is Mozilla about to do the same thing to Firefox by moving too quickly? That’s the debate now boiling in the technology industry over Firefox’s new rapid release schedule. It’s being fueled by a… Read More…

A cupcake for Firefox 5: Microsoft has some fun with Mozilla’s new rapid release

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has made a tradition of sending the Firefox team a big, congratulatory IE cake upon the release of a new version of the rival browser. With today’s debut of Firefox 5, the first in Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle, that tradition has been downsized to reflect the IE team’s view of… Read More…

Photo of the Day: Internet Explorer Gets New Windows

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has been making a point lately of trying to stick to a steady schedule for updates. Turns out the new attitude applies to more than the browser itself. Just this week, the company announced the first platform preview for Internet Explorer 10, the next release of the browser. And already the… Read More…

Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck

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It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond company is confirming that Internet Explorer 10, the next version of its web browser, won’t work on the 4-year-old Windows Vista (or earlier Windows versions) in the same way that IE9 left the older Windows… Read More…

IE10? Yep, Microsoft gives early preview of next browser

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Fresh off the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft this morning gave the first small glimpse of its plans for the next version of the browser, previewing some of the technologies planned for Internet Explorer 10. For now, at least, it’s the type of stuff that only hard-core webheads will appreciate — namely, new support… Read More…

Opera browser update boosts Turbo, improves Speed Dial

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New and upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome have been getting a lot of attention lately, but Opera Software this morning came out with a smaller update that improves two key features in its Opera 11 browser. The company says the “Opera Turbo” feature in the Opera 11.10 update is 15 percent faster… Read More…

Microsoft’s IE team: Pay no attention to those stats … yet

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Much has been made over the past week about Firefox 4 trouncing Internet Explorer 9 in total downloads since the new browsers were released. But Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team is cautioning that it’s too early to make comparisons. In a post on the Windows blog, Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin points out that the company hasn’t started… Read More…