Will IE 7 Perception Problems Hurt Vista?
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| Bad for Vista
|
| Based on a surprising spike in Microsoft Watch reader feedback
| about Internet Explorer, these negative perceptions are growing.I
| ncreased IE 7 distribution is a likely cause.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/will_ie7_perception_problems_hurt_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ytfjb5
Related:
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| Ironically, the release of IE 7, which I consider first rate, seems
| to be prompting a significant number of people to take a look at
| the competing free browser from Mozilla.org called "Firefox" that
| now is offering its 2.0.1 version.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55047.html
Firefox, Safari Gain on Internet Explorer in '06
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| The downward trend took Internet Explorer to its lowest market
| share percentage for the year at 79.64 percent. Internet
| Explorer's loss turned into gains for Safari and Firefox.
| Safari ended the year at 4.24 percent, and Firefox came
| in at 14 percent.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55013.html
Firefox (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test
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| This is a build of Firefox on the reflow branch, a development branch
| on which I'm making major changes to the way Gecko does intrinsic
| width computation and incremental layout, showing the Acid2 test
| being passed.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbaron/126886608/
Firefox crosses the 23% frontier in Europe
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| Shifting from 19.4% for the week of the 8th to the 14th of April
| 2006, Firefox user share rose to 23.2% in the week from November 20th to
| November 26th 2006...
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http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-US/Technicals/index-1-2-3-68.html
Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker
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| If Mozilla proceeds with this goal for Firefox 3 to be a broker
| of information, then that will significantly raise the stakes in
| the browser war again. Microsoft will surely follow and the
| smaller browsers will innovate around microformats to keep ahead.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php
IE7 Web Developers Nightmare
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| IE7 is a night mare for most of the developers that try to comply
| with standards for crossbrowsing.
| I recently needed to rewrite a web site so it works on firefox too...
| the surprising element was that when testing the new and the old site
| on IE7 I found out that many things does not function as expected and
| "not function as expected" isn't the right word for it, it was more
| a question of working at all.
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http://it-gears.blogspot.com/2007/01/ie7-nightmare-for-web-developers.html
IE 7 Cautionary Tale
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| After updating to the new browser, none of the computers
| could access QuickBooks, the CRM system or e-mail. The IT
| manager had to remotely administrator each machine, from
| the U.S. He turned back to a restore point a day earlier,
| undoing the chaos caused by IE 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/ie_7_cautionary_tale.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ycjw4k
Why Microsoft Expression Web redefines irony
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| Expression is Microsoft's suite of web development tools slated to
| replace the wonderful application known as Front Page. A quick visit
| to the site for this tool yields a fairly typical Microsoft webpage.
|
| [...]
|
| WHOA! Did they not even listen to their own marketing garbage? 144
| Errors! No DocType? Are you kidding me?
|
| [...]
|
| Bravo to our good friends at Microsoft for setting such a great example
| and leading the masses to a more standards compliant internet! (and
| for giving web standards geeks something to hate on).
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http://shifteleven.com/articles/2006/11/16/why-microsoft-expression-web-redefines-irony
,----[ Quote ]
| Wow, this is absolutely devastating! As near as I can tell, the poor
| guy at Microsoft has been trying to support open standards against
| management. He doesn't say much about the history, i.e. the fact that
| Microsoft didn't do anything with IE until they were recently forced to
| by Firefox competition. The feedback is amazing. Example:
|
| Quote:
| -------------
| So if you believe that the reason for IE's lack of standards support is
| something other than malice of forethought to strangle other browsers,
| you are wrong. If you have followed the anti-trust trial you would have
| seen the actual evidence for these decisions. Microsoft is an
| anti-competitive company run by unethical shitheads.
|
| This won't change until the workforce is slashed and the entire company
| culture changes. Steve Ballmer is the king of the shitheads, so when he
| goes things might get better. But until then, expect MS to only do the
| absolute minimum to defuse the worst criticism. Remember my words:
| unethical shitheads.
| -------------
| End quote
|
| Erik cited this same guy's blog a few days ago to support the notion
| that Microsoft is dedicated to standards compliance and is doing the
| reasonable thing (I think that's why he cited it). The way this story
| has developed, it shows exactly the opposite, and is very revealing
| about sentiments out there in the developer world.
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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/cc1ad063dcc0400d
Microsoft removes IE7 for Windows XP from WSUS
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| We have verified a problem in the metadata for the latest IE7.0 update
| rollup package...
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http://bink.nu/Article8933.bink
Wake up and smell the IE7!
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| The results of our study suggest that around 12.7 million websites are
| in need of a little TLC because of IE7. Maybe even more.
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http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/wake-up-and-smell-the-ie7
IE7 'critical update' causes headaches for managed desktop environments
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| As many organisations may not feel compelled to turn off automatic
| updates, they should be prepared to face this is issue when Internet
| Explorer 7 is downloaded and installed automatically.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/12/ie7_critical_update_managed_desktops/
IE 7 bugs abound
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| "But browser testers may already be at risk, according to security
| researcher Tom Ferris. Late Tuesday, Ferris released details of a potential
| security flaw in IE 7. An attacker could exploit the flaw by crafting a
| special Web page that could be used to crash the browser or gain complete
| control of a vulnerable system, Ferris said in an advisory on his Web site.
| Microsoft had no immediate comment on Ferris' alert."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6034054.html?part=rss&tag=6034054&subj=news
Which Is Safer: Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0?
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| In the SmartWare test, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 blocked 690
| known phishing sites, or 66.35 percent of the total. In contrast,
| Firefox blocked 78.85 percent when using a local antiphishing
| database and 81.54 percent when using the online database.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20061114/bs_nf/47901
Information disclosure bug blights IE7 release
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| The flaw stems from error in the handling of redirections
| for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. Security
| notification firm Secunia reports that the same bug
| was discovered six months ago in IE6 but remains unresolved.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/ie7_first_bug/
CLARION CALL: IE 7 Not Ready For Prime Time
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| Either leave your dog at home, or make sure it's trained better
| before inviting it into my house to make a mess on my carpet.
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http://saunderslog.com/2006/10/18/clarion-call-ie-7-not-ready-for-prime-time/
IE7 Released As High-Priority Update
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| "Looks like FF2 is already outnumbering FF 1.5, while IE7 is having a
| hard time to find followers. Will today's release as a
| high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?"
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1424203&from=rss
Attackers end-run around IE security
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| The vulnerability underscores that the improvements in security in the
| latest version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 7, do not
| eliminate the threats of older components of Windows, said Gunter
| Ollmann, director of IBM Internet Security Systems' X-Force
| vulnerability research team.
|
| [...]
|
| Online criminals frequently use flaws in ActiveX to install malicious
| code on victims' PCs via their browsers. One tool - known as WebAttacker
| and sold from a Russian website for about $20 - has had great success
| in compromising the security of victims' computers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/08/ie_security_analysis/
Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 : the battle intensifies
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| With regards to new versions, the leading browser Internet
| Explorer has been beaten by its challenger over the last two weeks
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http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-US/Events/index-1-2-1-63.html
Microsoft Releases First IE7 Update
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| When visiting certain web pages, the Phishing Filter may increase
| CPU usage while evaluating the page contents and the system may
| become slow to respond.
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http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=19020
Are you being served?
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| Like many Microsoft desktop users this week I clicked on the icon
| 'upgrade to Explorer 7'. Mistake. Outlook and Express disappeared.
| As did the Explorer multi-choice menu. Panic. Has it deleted all
| my emails?
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http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9069&ref=fd_itd
IE7 Breaks Outlook 2003
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| So, what did I do? I removed IE 7 from all of my users computers and
| faster than you can say "microsoft needs help", they were all
| printing Outlook emails with headers again.
|
| Im in the process of reviewing Office 2007 and Windows Vista,
| and it wont be much different than this review.
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http://www.pintmaster.com/20061212/ie7-breaks-outlook-2003/
IE7 users: beware! Microsoft telling their staff not to touch it...
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| My mum's friend, who's been working for Microsoft for quite a while,
| just told my mum that Microsoft have started telling their employees
| not to use IE7 as it crashes a lot.
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http://forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=36928.0
IE7's anti-phising scheme worries small business owners
,----[ Quote ]
| ...small business owners and corporations are worried that users
| will leave their sites feeling unsafe, as they are not eligable
| to smaller businesses.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1163.html
IE6 vs Firefox vs Firefox vs Safari
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| This is the Acid 2 test done on a 13 inch black MacBook running
| Parallels Beta 3 with coherence running from a boot camp partition.
| The open browsers are IE6 (left), Firefox for Windows (Top middle),
| Bonecho for mac (optimized Firefox build for intel, bottom middle),
| and Safari (Right).
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/41384028@N00/339365515/
Is Internet Explorer 7 Explorer Too Locked Down for You?
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| A store owner in a bad neighborhood must balance safety against
| commerce. Too many locks and bars will keep away customers with
| the crooks. Based on Microsoft Watch reader feedback, Internet
| Explorer 7 sacrifices too much usability in the interest of safety.
|
| [...]
|
| Many Microsoft Watch readers complain of incompatibilities with
| Web sites, Web services or desktop software. Back in December, I
| wrote about one company's new satellite office devastated by an
| IE 7 upgrade, which knocked out access to CRM and e-mail software.
`----
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/how_you_see_internet_explorer_7.html
http://tinyurl.com/2opg76
Way Too ActiveX
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| Today, over at Symantec's Security Response Weblog, Greg Ahmad
| reveals startling--and I do mean shocking--increases in ActiveX
| vulnerabilities. According to Symantec, ActiveX vulnerabilities
| stayed in the 12- to- 15-a-year range from 2002 to 2005. For
| 2006, the number of vulnerabilities "reached 50," with 42 in
| the second half of the year--coincidentally, the same time
| period Microsoft finished up and released Internet Explorer 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/way_too_activex.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/33cfno
Attack code out for 'critical' Windows flaw
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| All recent versions of Windows are vulnerable when all recent
| versions of IE, including IE 7, are in use, according to Microsoft.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6150642.html
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