Posted 09/09/08 at 05:15:45 PM by Paul Lilly

For those who either (A) believe Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 represents the pinnacle of browser design, heralded as being not only the greatest browser of its time, but of all time, leading to a general malaise towards Firefox 3 and 3.1 Alpha, IE7 and IE8 Beta, and Chrome Beta, or (B) are forced to stick with IE6 because of compatiblity issues, work policy, or any other of a handful of reasons preventing you from upgrading, then Google has good news for you.

Recognizing there are still users who surf like it's 1999 (yes, IE6 was released in 2001 but that wouldn't have set up a song reference, now would it?), the gargantuan search company has been hard at work rewriting Gmail's code base to make it more friendly for IE6 users. This means that if you have the latest IE6 updates from Microsoft installed, you should now be able to enjoy previously unavailable features like colored labels, group chat and rich emoticons, invisible mode, AIM integration, Gmail Labs, an updated contact manager, and remote sign out.

Now if only Crytek would upgrade Crysis' code base so the game would run smoothly on our GeForce 3 TI500 videocard, we'd all be happy campers.

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Posted 07/02/08 at 03:38:58 PM by Mark Edward Soper

Framed web pages are everywhere - but IE isn't ready to handle iFrame hijacking. ZDNet's Zero Day blog repots that exploit code is now available online to demonstrate how to perform malicious attacks against IE7 as well as IE6 and even IE8 beta 1. Even if your version of IE is fully patched, it's not ready to handle this vulnerability.

To find out how the threat works, join us after the break.

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Posted 03/05/08 at 10:32:54 PM by Mark Soper

You can now give the future of Microsoft web browsing, Internet Explorer 8, a try. Discover how to try it safely.

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Posted 12/20/07 at 11:12:33 AM by Mark Soper

Singing the blues because Microsoft Security Update MS07-069's done a number on Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2? We've got the definitive workaround - straight from Redmond.

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Posted 12/19/07 at 04:42:03 PM by Mark Soper

Microsoft's MS07-069 Security Update's been breaking browsers everywhere. Until Redmond gets its act together, here's a solution and a workaround that enable you to keep browsing and Windows Updating.

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microsoft, Software, news, windows xp, Windows Vista, knowledge base, Internet Explorer, IE7, IE, IE6, closed source, use firefox, terribad