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Internet Explorer 8 - RELEASED

Yesterday morning we released Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to the web for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server.  We’ve posted a number of different posts about IE8 over the last few months, however we’ve barely scratched the surface of the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments
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Who’s That Hiding in my Windows?

Hello AskPerf!  My name is Satyajit and I am a Support Engineer on the Performance team.  Today we’re going to discuss the use of a very useful Windows SysInternals tools named Autoruns that we can use to examine programs that start during the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

Updated News on Internet Explorer 8

Today we’re getting you caught up on some of the changes in the Internet Explorer world.  The IE Product team has been posting a lot of information about IE8 recently – here are some of the key posts: IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available : IE8 will be distributed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Launch of the AskIE Blog

Support for Internet Explorer transitioned from the Performance team to our Developer Support group earlier this year. Recently, this new team launched their own blog focused on Internet Explorer support issues. The AskIE blog will be discussing topics Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Catching up with our fellow MS Bloggers

It occurred to me that with so many technical blogs out there, that it might be useful to bring you some posts from our fellow bloggers here at Microsoft that have been published recently … If you haven’t been keeping up with our colleagues over at the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

IE8 and Privacy

Privacy.  Personally Identifiable Information.  Choice.  Disclosure.  These are all key concepts in the digital age.  We expose more of our personal data electronically than at any time in our history.  IE8 gives users more Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

IE8 Beta Testers Wanted

Although Internet Explorer support is no longer part of our portfolio on the Performance team, we do still keep an eye on what’s going on in the world of IE.  The IE team is looking for Beta Testers.  Below is the post from the IE Team Blog Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Internet Explorer 8 - First Look

Last week, at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, the Internet Explorer team made several announcements regarding IE8, the first of which was that a Developer Beta (emphasis on the Developer ) is now available.  You can download the beta from the IE8 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments
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BHO's, Security and Shell Extensions

Today we're going to wrap up our overview of Browser Helper Objects with a look at BHO's and Security as well as similarities between BHO's and Shell Extensions.  If you recall from our first post on BHO's , a BHO is an extension to Internet Explorer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:08 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

The Basics of Browser Helper Objects

In our last few posts on Internet Explorer, we've looked at ActiveX Controls.  Today we're going to take a look at the Basics of Browser Helper Objects (BHO's).  We're not going to cover BHO's and Security in this post, that will be covered Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Introduction to ActiveX - Part Three: Security and Security Zones

One of the most common calls that we get relates to the warning dialogs, the "gold bar" message or even the infamous "Red X" image being displayed where the ActiveX control should be loaded.  In some instances, the problem is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:47 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Introduction to ActiveX - Part Two: Managing ActiveX controls

In Part One of our Introduction to ActiveX , we covered the basics of ActiveX controls. Today we're going to go over some ActiveX specifics as they relate to the Internet Explorer environment and the management of ActiveX controls. The default installation Read More...
Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 6:26 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Managing the "Launching Applications and Unsafe Files" Setting

We are often asked about the centralized management of Internet Explorer configuration options for which there are no Group Policy settings included with the default IE GPO templates. One of the settings that we are asked about the most is the "Launching Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:30 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Sample_ADM_Launching_Applications_and_Unsafe_Files.txt

Introduction to ActiveX - Part One

On Tuesday, we wrote about the upcoming changes in behavior for how Internet Explorer handles embedded controls .  Today we're going to discuss the basics of ActiveX controls themselves - what they are and why they are important.  We're not Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 7:27 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

IE Automatic Component Activation

Back in April 2006, Microsoft made a change in how IE handled embedded controls used on some web pages.  These changes resulted in some sites requiring users to "Click to Activate" before they could interact with the control.  Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments
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