Neowin News Feed for: Explorer

Google Glass "probably a year-ish away" for consumers

Steven Parker — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:35:59 +0100

Eric Schmidt dropped a hint during an interview with BBC Radio 4 that Google Glass will most likely be available next year, and for under the $1500 price tag the developers had to fork out. Read more...

Google will deactivate Glasses if you loan them to friends

Ben Buffone — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:54:20 +0100

Google's terms of service reveal you won't be able to sell or lend your precious early specs once they arrive or the company will deactivate them. At $1,500, is it just too much to ask? Read more...

Google invites some lucky people to the Glass Explorer Program

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:26:12 +0000

Google's hunt for new Explorers with Glass is over. While the contest ran during February, the company has only begun to send out invitations to join the Explorer Program via Google+ today. Read more...

From The Forums: Immersive Explorer for Windows

Steven Parker — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:25:35 +0100

Microsoft failed to include a Metro styled file manager app with Windows 8, so one of our members has gone ahead and created one from scratch. If you love Metro, you'll absolutely love this! Read more...

Better Explorer Beta 1

Steven Parker — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:37:34 +0100

Better Explorer is a replacement for the standard Windows Explorer in Windows 7 or 8. It includes features for more convenience, like Tabs, Ribbon interface, additional conditional tabs and so on! Read more...

ISO and VHD native support in Windows 8 detailed

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:55:56 +0100

Another post from the Building Windows 8 blog has revealed that Windows 8 will have native support for mounting ISO disc images and virtual hard disk (VHD) files from within Windows Explorer Read more...

Building Windows 8: The new ribbon-based Explorer

Denis Wong — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:08:50 +0100

In the latest update to the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft gives a detailed explanation of the new Windows Explorer, whose ribbon-based interface has been hinted at in early leaked screenshots. Read more...

Windows 8 gets a nice Explorer feature

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:22:09 +0100

Sometimes, small features can make a huge difference in the overall workflow of an OS. According to tech-exclusive, the newest feature to be uncovered in leaked builds of Windows 8 is a very nifty drag and... Read more...

Sysinternals Process Explorer 14.0

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:26:10 +0000

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including... Read more...

Microsoft demos Internet Explorer 9

Tom Warren — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:31:32 +0000

Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and... Read more...

Microsoft set to announce Internet Explorer 9 plans

Tom Warren — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:31 +0000

Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set... Read more...

QnA with Microsoft - Internet Explorer 8

Tom Warren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:46:11 +0100

Tonight Microsoft held a 1hr QnA session with bloggers, members of the press and us (Neowin) regarding Internet Explorer 8. The session was informal with any and all types of questions permitted. Members of the... Read more...

Internet Explorer 8 has reached RTM

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:59:42 +0000

According to Russian publication Wzor, Microsoft finalised Internet Explorer 8 on February 21st. The final build that was prepared and passed to internal staff and partners is 8.0.6001.18691. Microsoft is reportedly readying this build for... Read more...

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Sean Bradford — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:37:54 +0000

As we reported last week, Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 with build number 8.0.06001.18372. The company has not yet released a changelog, so if you spot any new features or major... Read more...

Windows 7: Explorer Search overview

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:20:35 +0000

So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7 Tips and Tricks Windows 7: Superbar overview ... Read more...

Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 overview

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:52:07 +0000

So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview... Read more...

Microsoft considering WebKit for Internet Explorer

Tom Warren — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:25:04 +0000

Microsoft CEO and dancing queen Steve Ballmer has said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within Internet Explorer was "interesting" and added "we may look at that" when questioned about Internet Explorer... Read more...

Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:21 +0100

In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: "use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default." Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued that, in light of their newly... Read more...

Do You Care About IE 8?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:06:39 +0100

This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should. For weeks, Microsoft has been dribbling out information about IE 8, which... Read more...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability Warning Issued

Steven Parker — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:05:33 +0100

The flaw focuses on IE's inline frames, often used for serving ads, which typically come from a different domain than content that appears on the same Web page. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8... Read more...