Neowin News Feed for: Internet explorer 10

Blake Lewis song in IE10 commercial made specifically for ad

John Callaham — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:48:18 +0000

Entertainment Weekly reveals that the Blake Lewis song featured in Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer 10 TV commercial was originally commissioned by Microsoft for the ad. Read more...

More on how Vyclone's HTML5 video editing feature was made

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:30:44 +0000

A new post on the Internet Explorer blog goes into more detail on how the recently announced HTML5-based video editing feature from Vyclone was created, along with example code. Read more...

HBO.com among sites on IE10 Windows RT Flash "Blacklist"

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:32:53 +0000

Microsoft's newly updated IE10 Flash "blacklist" of websites shows that people who surf to HBO.com on Windows RT devices can't bring the site up on Internet Explorer 10. Read more...

Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8/RT to run Flash by default starting Tuesday

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:37:41 +0000

Microsoft has announced that starting on Tuesday, it will allow Flash content on websites to run by default on Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and Windows RT via a new automatic update. Read more...

Microsoft offers "enhanced" IE10 with Bing and MSN [Update]

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:58:14 +0000

Microsoft's Bing team has released what they call an "enhanced" version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 that has Bing set as the browser's default search engine and MSN as its home page. Read more...

Windows 8 and RT get new security update to fix Flash exploit

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:53:29 +0000

Microsoft has released a new security update for Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server 2012 that fixes an issue related to Adobe Flash in Internet Explorer 10. Read more...

Microsoft launches new Minesweeper website as IE10 benchmark

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:15:24 +0000

Microsoft has launched a new Minesweeper website that's designed to also be a benchmark for HTML5-based web browsers, including the new Windows 7 version of Internet Explorer 10. Read more...

New Windows 7, 8 and RT software updates due on Tuesday

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:18:36 +0000

Microsoft has revealed it will release software updates for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows RT on Tuesday February 26, which may be a clue for the launch date of the final Windows 7 version of IE10. Read more...

Microsoft: MSN on Windows 8 loads much faster than competitors

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:32:18 +0000

Microsoft said today that an independent study shows that its MSN content site made for Windows 8 users loads up to 10 times faster than the major competing websites. Read more...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 team helps to launch Thief of Thieves website

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:09:18 +0000

As promised a few months ago, a new website based on the Thief of Thieves comic book has gone live with touchscreen features that were put in place in part by Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 team. Read more...

Microsoft releases IE 10 update blocker; IE 10 launch imminent?

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:58:33 +0000

Microsoft has released a corporate tool to allow businesses to block Internet Explorer 10 from being automatically installed. This points towards the browser being available for Windows 7 really soon. Read more...

Microsoft's big (rest of) January: A look ahead

John Callaham — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:02:45 +0000

Microsoft has a ton of major announcements and launches that could be announced in the last third of January and we take a look at what we can expect from the company. Read more...

Microsoft releases demo of its proposed web audio-video chat standard

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:29:57 +0000

Microsoft has now released a "working prototype" of a browser-based audio-video chat that uses the company's proposed CU-RTC-Web standard, which is competing with WebRTC. Read more...

Microsoft makes the case for businesses to use IE10

John Callaham — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:58:29 +0000

Microsoft is trying to make the case that businesses should use just one web browser, and that those businesses should pick Internet Explorer 10 over competing browsers. Read more...

More info on Internet Explorer 10 in Windows Phone 8

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:13:45 +0000

Microsoft has posted a new article that gives us more info on what makes Internet Explorer 10 a great browser on the Windows Phone platform. Be sure to take the dive and read about all the features. Read more...

Microsoft's new Internet Explorer marketing campaign touts a comeback

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:14:07 +0000

Microsoft has released a new YouTube video focusing on the hate its browser, Internet Explorer, gets from individuals across the Internet as part of a marketing campaign for the browser. Read more...

Some HTML5 websites updated to work on Windows Phone 8

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:09:45 +0000

Microsoft has announced that some websites that have been optimized for Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 have been updated to work on IE10 in Windows Phone 8 as well. Read more...

Microsoft gives in; adds some DirectX 11.1 features to Windows 7

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:04:08 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has released an update to Windows 7 that adds some of the DirectX11.1 API features that were previously an exclusive for Windows 8. Read more...

HTML5 game developer feels IE10 lacks important features

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:08:01 +0000

Developer Scirra has posted up its thoughts on Internet Explorer 10 running HTML5-based games, claiming that its performance lags compared to other browsers due to IE10 not using certain APIs. Read more...

New extended IE10 video slams Apple's Safari for iPad

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:42:44 +0000

A new extended video promotion for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 takes some time to make some indirect slams against Apple's Safari browser for the iPad Read more...