Starting from January 2012, Microsoft will automatically update older versions of Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7 unless you opt-out with a tool kit. More...

Apparently the cake was a lie. After hearing that Firefox 4 was no longer going to be receiving security updates, Microsoft was quick to pounce on the opportunity to improve their market penetration within the... More...

At the annual pwn2own competition, where hackers lineup to show off their security-cracking skills on a number of software and hardware devices, both Safari and Internet Explorer 8 were successfully exploited due to a zero-day... More...

The Windows Team Blog points us to a report browser usage showing that Internet Explorer 8 usage is on the rise throughout the world. With all versions of Internet Explorer accounted for, Microsoft's share of users... More...

Net Applications released their usage share numbers for June on Thursday and Internet Explorer has gained 0.57% share worldwide. Continuing the trend from May, when IE gained usage share in the United States, the share worldwide... More...

Time for a bit of site news. We have determined that guests who browse Neowin Forums using Internet Explorer 8 experienced frequent lock-ups. After investigating the issue, we found that it came from an advertising... More...

Over the last year, IE6 marketshare has fallen by 6% in the US, from 11.47% to 4.74%. Back in March, Neowin reported that a funeral was held for IE6 where Microsoft even sent flowers... More...

Day 1 of Pwn2Own has just wrapped up and the results so far mimic those of last year. Hackers have claimed victory over all browsers and operating systems except Google's Chrome browser, which no one... More...

Microsoft will ship a mobile version of Internet Explorer 7 inside Windows Phone 7 when devices ship later this year. The mobile version, yet to be named, is a version between Internet Explorer 7 and 8... More...

Guardian.co.uk references a Net Applications' chart from January 2010 showing that IE8 now commands the largest maket share of any browser in the world. Previously, IE6 held the crown. For some time now, Microsoft, as... More...

Microsoft has issued a statement confirming that it plans to release a patch for a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer which saw Google fall victim to some targeted and sophisticated attacks recently. George Stathakopoulos, Microsoft Security,... More...

Microsoft has had a torrid time over the past week as governments and customers question the security of the popular web browser, Internet Explorer. The issues began when Google went public that they were targeted in... More...

Microsoft has created a guidance page on the Windows 7 part of their website, detailing how users should go about installing a browser on Windows 7 E – the version of Windows that will ship... More...

Microsoft has announced that for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8, they will donate the financial equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America network. The campaign is called "Browser for the Better," and... More...

One of the biggest releases of patches since October 2008 is due on Tuesday June 9. Microsoft has confirmed it will deliver 10 security updates to patch some serious bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer,... More...

In case your favorite language isn't English and have been waiting to install a language pack for the recently released Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has finally released language packs for the following languages: ... More...

Microsoft plans to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous versions of IE (IE 6 or IE 7) via Automatic Updates starting from the 3rd week of April. The update will be rolled out... More...

With my most recent piece, I've been hearing that much of what is holding people back from using IE8 is the lack of an Ad blocking feature. Perhaps not widely known, but IE8 actually contains... More...

In my most recent piece, "IE8, and why it's almost my default browser", I outline a couple of factors that inhibited IE8 from holding the default browser position on my PC. Since writing that article,... More...

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8, and while I find that it is a great piece of software, it had a few shortcomings which left Google Chrome untouched with respects to my default browser selection.... More...

A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web based malware. According to the study based upon a sample of 492 URLs,... More...

TippingPoint's 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest has already shown significant security breaches on Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, but Google's Chrome was the only browser that made it through the first day... More...

Earlier this year when Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate was released, the IE team submitted 3784 new test cases to the CSS 2.1 Working Group for inclusion into the CSS 2.1 test suite. And today,... More...

With rumors circulating that the next version of Internet Explorer might use Webkit, an open source web browser engine, Hachamovitch confirmed to Ars that the next version of IE will not use Webkit "Hachamovitch... More...

Update: Users can now download Internet Explorer 8 starting from today here As Neowin mentioned earlier, Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, the new Web browser that offers the best... More...

With MIX09 fast approaching, Microsoft is expected to announce few goodies in the conference, happening in Las Vegas this Wednesday. So here is my prediction on what Microsoft may announce this year: Internet Explorer... More...