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IE

Goodbye, IE: Microsoft is dumping the Internet Explorer brand

Microsoft is phasing out its Internet Explorer brand, with Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela confirming at the Microsoft Convergence conference… Read More

Move over, IE? Microsoft reportedly building new browser for Windows 10

Microsoft may finally retire Internet Explorer’s big blue “E” with the launch of Windows 10 next year. The company is… Read More

Researchers: Internet Explorer declines have ‘stabilized’

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser has seen its overall market share decline from upwards of 90 percent a decade ago… Read More

Microsoft celebrates U.S. demise of Internet Explorer 6 with cake and souvenirs

It’s not every day that a company cuts a cake and sends out commemorative souvenirs in honor of one of… Read More

Flash, Silverlight and the end of the line for browser plug-ins

Adobe’s news this week that it will no longer develop Flash for mobile browsers is being celebrated as a victory… Read More

Microsoft offers holiday freebies to boost IE9 usage

Microsoft has rolled out a new holiday promotional campaign that aims, in part, to get people on Windows 7 to… Read More

Afternoon Radar: BlackBerry outage, iOS 5, Xbox Live

A roundup of stories making headlines across the tech industry today …   BlackBerry users in the U.S. and Canada… Read More

IE9 share tops 20% on Windows 7 even as IE usage slips overall

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser is now used on more than 20 percent of PCs running Windows 7 worldwide, outpacing… Read More

This is the guy who convinced everyone that IE users are dumb

His name is Tarandeep Gill. He’s a web developer and entrepreneur, a graduate of the Georgia Tech computer science program,… Read More

Good news, IE users: Media flunked IQ test, not you

[Update, 10:50 a.m.: The people behind “AptiQuant” now admit the study was a hoax, saying it “was all meant to be… Read More

Firefox 4 soars, thanks to Microsoft’s luddite customers

Maybe it’s time for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team to reconsider that whole Windows XP thing? Firefox 4 clocked about 5… Read More

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