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IE 8.0 to Adhere to Web Standards

By Kirk M | Published March 4, 2008

It has been announced at Mary Jo Foley’s "All About Microsft" blog (ZDNET) and at the IE Blog itself at MSDN that the up and coming Internet Explorer 8.0 will adhere to the current web standards by default. Something the developers and the more technically inclined users have been clamoring for, well, just about forever [...]

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Goodbye Netscape. You were the first.

By Kirk M | Published December 29, 2007

AOL kills the old and venerable Netscape browser. Discontinues all support by February 1, 2008.

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IE 7.0 final sneaked out

By Kirk M | Published October 21, 2006

The IE 7.0 team at Microsoft put the final version of IE 7.0 on the streets before most people realized it (the sneaks). Announced earlier that the final would be available via MS’s Automatic Updates, a “sneak up behind you and tap you on the shoulder” early release was offered as a download from MS’s [...]

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Go figure…

By Kirk M | Published May 25, 2006

You could have never convinced me if you tried. I would never have thought that I’d migrate away from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express no matter how anemic they were getting to be. The fact was, they just worked. That’s about all they did but they did work. So what if Internet Explorer had to [...]

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