In the interests of security and positive user experience on a touchscreen, Microsoft chose to block Flash on all but their pre-vetted list of sites for anybody running Internet Explorer 10 in the Windows 8 Modern UI or anywhere on Windows RT. That policy has been revised as of today and Windows Update will be [...]
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This week saw the beginning of Microsoft’s long awaited Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. That’s software that has technically been around for quite a while now, having shipped with Windows 8 back in October of last year, but that was being held back for assorted reasons. Now that they have gotten around to releasing [...]
Internet Explorer 10 is set to ship with the Do-Not-Track setting turned on by default. For once Microsoft is doing something that people can point to and declare to be unequivocally in the best interest of their customers. In theory, at least. Is it a marketing ploy? Probably. Internet Explorer hasn’t exactly enjoyed the best [...]
On Friday Microsoft rolled out an update to the Flash integrated with Internet Explorer 10 that should protect users from malicious attacks. The bugs in question have been actively exploited by hackers for a while now, possibly months in some cases, and they represented real problems for anybody using Flash on the internet. While the [...]
Internet Explorer Flash Update Pending After surprising the PC community by announcing that there would be no patch for the unsecure Flash component of IE10 until Windows 8’s official launch in October, Microsoft has admitted that they are actively working on getting a patch up and ready “soon”. While this is not exactly a consolation [...]
According to Adobe, Microsoft has left Windows 8 users open to exploits thanks to their decision to hold off on updating Flash Player before the operating system is available for purchase. This means that anybody taking advantage of the 90 day preview period currently available to interested parties and developers will likely remain at risk [...]
Users of Internet Explorer 10, available through the Windows 8 Release Preview, have run into a problem today. An update to Google’s Gmail has effectively silenced these users. As of today, August 9th, it is possible to log into your Gmail account through IE 10, but it is impossible to send messages, reply to mail, [...]
