Archive for the 'Internet Explorer' Category
Windows Vista Security One Year Later
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Hi, Austin Wilson here. Now that Windows Vista has been available to business customers for more than a year, it’s a good time to go back and look at how it’s holding up from a security perspective. I think that it’s fair to say that Windows Vista is proving to be the most [...]
The New Firefox 2.0.0.9 Plays Well with Windows Vista
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007A new version of Firefox is available for download. On October 19, Mozilla made available an update to its open source browser, taking the version build from 2.0.0.7 to 2.0.0.8. The version numbers are not a clear indication of the evolution between the two Firefox variants. According to Mozilla, over 200 issues impacting the Firefox [...]
Microsoft turns to pirated Windows users to boost IE7 market share
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Microsoft is, for the first time, making Internet Explorer 7 available to users of pirated copies of XP. One thing’s been obvious since the release of IE7 — its uptake hasn’t been as good as Microsoft would have hoped, regardless of the spin the company has put on things.
Firefox 2.0 and IE7 – Attack Vectors for Windows Vista
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007The .ANI file format vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling has gotten a lot of play lately. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the Windows Animated Cursor Handling flaw is the first pure blood, pure bred Windows Vista critical vulnerability. As I have mentioned, before there are two vectors of attack [...]
Will IE 7 Perception Problems Hurt Vista?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Internet Explorer 7 user complaints continue to pound my inbox, with an increasing number of people expressing diminished confidence in Windows Vista. Microsoft has a perception problem. Product marketing often is much more about perception than reality. Negative perceptions, once they set in, are tough to shake. For companies with multiple, closely associated brands, negative [...]
Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006PERSPECTIVE With Microsoft not having launched a new Web browser since 2001, nor a new service pack since August 2004, Internet Explorer arguably had the longest road to travel to be ready for Windows Vista. Firefox, on the other hand, has had much more frequent point releases, with version 1.5 made available in November 2005.
But [...]
