Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog : Browsers

Bing Add-on for Firefox

mepprecht — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:54:49 GMT

If your are using Firefox, the Microsoft Search Team have developed an add-in to allow you to make your default search engine Bing.

You can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10434

The add-on has already over 488’000 downloads!

Out of Band Security Release – 28 July 2009

mepprecht — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:43:21 GMT

The Security of our Customers and Partners is important to Microsoft . The be able to efficiently operate your IT Infrastructure, Microsoft will issue an Out-of-Band Security Update today, 28 July, at about 19:00 Central European Time. Products covered are all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer and Visual Studio.

Pre-Alert Information: Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2009 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-jul-ans.mspx)

Technical WebCast, 28 July, 22:00 (CET): “TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft’s July 2009 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Release (Level 200)”: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032422339&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

The receive pre-alerts for this, and other security alerts, you can subscribe to the “Microsoft Technical Security Notifications” http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/notify.mspx

TechNet Event: Security under Windows with Forefront, Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7

mepprecht — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:44:35 GMT

Windows and Security are definitively not unknown word-pairs

With the Forefront Product family and Windows 7, you are fully armed to provide a secure Windows Desktop. This TechTalk will give the the information you need to be successful, without a lot of work, to develop and deploy you Business Security Policy and keep your desktops secure.

The focus will be on the following products:

Forefront Codename "Stirling"
Forefront Client Security v2
Forefront Threat Management Gateway
Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 SP2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Internet Explorer 8

Naturally, many demos will be shown

Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 9:00 – 16:00
Venue: Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Richtistrasse 3, 8304 Wallisellen
Language: German
Target Audience: IT Specialists
Presenters: Dominik Zemp, Markus Erlacher

Registration and Agenda: www.microsoft.ch/it-events

Internet Explorer 8 – When will it be on Windows Update?

mepprecht — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:29:17 GMT

If you are wondering what the timelines are for Internet Explorer 8 release via Windows Update are, well, today we announced on the IE blog that users with IE 6 and IE 7 will get it pushed in the 3rd week of April 2009. The install will be opt-in.

On Windows XP and Server 2003, the update will be High-Priority. On Windows Vista and Server 2008 it will be Important

For companies who wish to manage their own deployment, they should use the free Blocker Toolkit that will block automatic delivery of IE8 via Windows Update.

If you want to Install IE 8 now, you can get it from here.

Special Swiss Internet Explorer 8 Add-Ons

mepprecht — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:49:17 GMT

Special Swiss Add-Ons for Internet Explorer 8 are now available. Accelerators, Web Slices and Search Providers from Ricardo.ch, Local.ch and Tilllate.ch can be downloaded from here.

There are also Videos showing their functionality.

Internet Explorer 8 is Released

mepprecht — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:56:00 GMT

Today at Microsoft’s MIX conference, during the keynote address, Dean Hachamovitch announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released.

To see what is new, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/overview.aspx

This is for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. If you’re testing the Windows 7 Beta, the next Windows Update will include a specially updated version of Internet Explorer 8 for Beta users.

You can download Internet Explorer 8 from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

Windows 7 Beta Updates

mepprecht — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:54:13 GMT

Overnight, a few updates for Windows 7 Beta build 7000 have been released on Microsoft Update and Windows Update.

One of the updates is a patch for Internet Explorer 8, to give it some of the stability updates that have been released in Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate (RC). The previously released IE 8 RC can not be installed on Windows 7 Beta. Windows 7 RC will have later version of Internet Explorer 8 in it when it is released. Further information on the IE 8 update can be found on the IEBlog.

The other updates (5 in total) are Windows 7 Test Updates, to verify that the various patching mechanisms work correctly. They do not fix anything, but will give the product team good telemetric data on the update experience. More information on the Microsoft Update Blog.

Whilst you are updating, you may notice a number of Optional Updates. These are generally updates to hardware drivers that 3rd party Manufacturers have released.

As part of the beta process, Microsoft does recommend you install all the updates so that good feedback can be collated on the improvements and the update processes.

Stop Living in the Past

mepprecht — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:53:12 GMT

An interesting community movement has started to take root: Stop Living in the Past. The movement wants users who are using Internet Explorer 6 to finally upgrade to the latest Microsoft browser and stop using the outdated “dinosaur” browsers. The movement was initially kicked off by Norwegian Newspapers who no longer wanted to support outdated site coding standards.

As they say: “And if you are in fact using Internet Explorer 6, you really are living in the dark ages where web browsing is concerned.”

http://www.stoplivinginthepast.com

Are you still living in the past? Then upgrade now to the latest version of Internet Explorer for Free

You can get the code from Stop Living in the Past to add to your web site to display the following message on your web site: