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A Law in South Korea states that online shopping/purchases will only work if you use Internet Explorer
South Korea is famous for a lot of things – Samsung, LG, coast-to-coast broadband, widespread 4G LTE networks and more. Essentially we’re talking about a rather advanced if not futuristic city that’s well connected in all ways possible. They’re even testing electric vehicles that are going to be charged via underground cables. But all of…
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IE crashes at Microsoft Surface presentation
No wonder web developers and even companies hate IE. I have nothing against Microsoft, Windows 7 is a brilliant OS, but they need to give up hopes on IE and design a browser from scratch. Here you can see a rather embarrassed presenter from Redmond showing off Internet Explorer on the Surface tablet when it…
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Australian website imposes tax on IE 7 users
An online retailer from Australia ‘Kogan’ has had it with Internet Explorer 7. Anyone who visits the website using IE 7 will be charged an additional 6.8% tax (IE tax) on purchases. Interestingly that figure is derived as 0.1% for each month since the browser was released. Visitors using the dated browser are greeted with…
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IE 9 is losing ground fast in the browser race as market share slips to under 60%
With the recent rise of the browsers Microsoft’s IE is taking quite a hit. Irrespective of all the latest additions from video codecs to all else it seems like IE 9’s market share is slowly dropping. One site even said it had just fallen below 60%. That’s a big hit for Microsoft of course, as…
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In the next browser battle its Microsoft’s IE8 versus Google Chrome, Microsoft says –‘You’re going down Google.’
Microsoft is on the warpath against none other than search giant extraordinaire Google. They’re accusing Google of not respecting their user’s privacy by collects all kinds of information like every keystroke made, in their Chrome browser. They’re saying that by combining the search and address bar in one space, it violates a certain amount of…
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German Federal Office warns citizens about IE’s vulnerable security
It’s sure as hell tickling the Germans this time. Let the ‘it’ be Internet Explorer’s fabled downslide of security that led Microsoft to label it as a ‘vector’. Users of versions 6, 7 and 8 have been warned by the German Federal Office, to switch over to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.…
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If you download IE 8, Microsoft feeds a hungry stomach for $0.14! Believe it or not!
Microsoft makes us smile sometimes. Recently while downloading Internet Explorer 8, scores of users found themselves in splits because the following message: “Only complete downloads of Windows Internet Explorer 8 through browserforthebetter.com from June 8, 2009 through August 8, 2009 qualify for the charitable donation to Feeding America. Microsoft is donating $1.15 per download to…
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No Internet Explorer for European customers with Windows 7
Looks like the antitrust scuffle has not ended and Microsoft has announced that it will be providing another version of Windows 7 for Europe and sadly not Internet Explorer. Yes folk! No Internet Explorer for you guys! It seems the EU has ordered Microsoft to separate the Web surfing software from its PC operating system.…
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IE8 demands more memory than Windows XP
Microsoft’s latest browser Internet Explorer is a memory hog it gobbles more than double the system memory of its main rival Firefox, 52% more memory than its predecessor IE7 and uses almost three times as may threads. In a test involving IE8 Beta 2, IE7 and Firefox 3.0.1 10 rich media sites were opened in…
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IE8 will it pass the ACID test.??
Microsoft originally intended to add additional compliance support into IE7 (including the Acid 2 test), but it didn’t make it into the shipping build. It was then put in a lower priority on the bottom of a large “wish list” of improvements for future updates, but to no avail as Microsoft focused its resources on…
