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Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes “Critical” Hole In Firefox Security
4:40AM Sean Fallon | Microsoft has acknowledged that they slipped the .NET Framework Assistant plugin into Firefox via Windows Update this past February, and that it has poked a “critical” hole in the browser’s security (effectively bringing Firefox down to IE’s level). More »
Software
Mozilla Whines About Apple Being First In Browser Ballot Screen
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | After getting cornered by the European Union, Microsoft offered a reasonable solution to the web browser monopoly dilemma: Let users choose whatever browser they want. Now, the developers of Firefox are whining about who’s first in the web setup screen. More »
Software
Microsoft Gives Europeans Choice Of Browser Instead Of None By Default
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | Microsoft’s newest attempt to appease the EU is to create a system in which end users can choose their browsers. (Imagine that! Choice!) This is a change from Microsoft’s previous offer to remove Internet Explorer completely from Windows 7. More »
Business
Microsoft Volunteers IE Removal From Windows 7 To Appease EU
12:30AM Jack Loftus | As part of an effort to alleviate its current European Union-sized headache across the Atlantic, Microsoft has volunteered to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7. The move is an about face for the company, which had previously testified such a removal was impossible. More »
Design
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan)
12:00AM Jack Loftus | What is best in life? To crush other browsers, see their worm-ridden code driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their fanboys. More »
Software
Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
3:00AM Mark Wilson | Microsoft’s latest History of the Internet promotion is a pretty lame, VH1esque mashup of various b-list comedians cracking jokes—until those comedians talk about Internet Explorer 8’s new In Private Mode. More »
Software
Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don’t sleep at night, browsers were on the first day’s menu. And Safari went down in seconds. More »
Software
Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
3:01PM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8. More »
Software
Internet Explorer 8’s Incompatability List Is Really Sad
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft’s “compatibility list” of sites that don’t render correctly in Internet Exploder 8 RC1—requiring some non-standards mojo from the browser to look right—numbers some 2,400. They’re off-the-beaten-path sites like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and YouTube. More »
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