Microsoft loves talking about its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, but who can blame them? This time around, however, the company was proud to proclaim that the new browser is the most energy efficient browser out of the bunch, according to the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems at Fraunhofer USA. Microsoft says that when compared
Ever since officially releasing on Windows 7 back in February, Internet Explorer 10 has been slowly chipping away at previous versions of Microsoft’s web browser. Internet Explorer 10 gained 1.35 percentage points in March, thanks to the release of the browser on Windows 7 in late February. IE10 is now at 2.93% market share out of all web browsers, with IE collectively bringing in almost 56% of the market share.
As for Internet Explorer 9 and previous version like IE8 and IE7, all three took a slight hit, according to statistics from Net Applications. IE9 dropped 1.05 percentage points, falling to 20.62% and IE8 lost 0.15%, standing at 23.23% — it’s currently the world’s most popular browser, however. IE7 took a hit of 0.08% to 1.93%, and IE6 fell 0.12% to 6.21%. Yes, more people are using IE6 than IE10 and IE7 combined.
As for Internet Explorer’s competition, both Firefox and Chrome gained a bit of market share during the past quarter. Firefox grew to 20.21%, while Chrome is now at 16.45%. Chrome took some hits throughout the past several months, but it’s slowly starting to recover. It may not pass Firefox this year, but it certainly wouldn’t be out of the question.
As for other browsers, Safari is sitting at 5.31%, while Opera owns 1.74% of the browser market share. It’s not expected for these two browsers to make much ground any time soon, as IE, Firefox, and Chrome are currently way out in front, with IE owning a tremendous lead over Firefox and Chrome, which probably won’t go away for the foreseeable future.
[via The Next Web]
Internet Explorer 10 gaining ground after releasing on Windows 7 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The European Union has decided to impose a 561 million euro (a little over $731 million) fine on Microsoft for violating one of its rulings. The announcement was made today by Joaquin Alumnia, the EU’s Competition Commissioner. The EU asked Microsoft back in 2009 to allow users to choose which web browsers they wanted to install on their machine. The choices would appear in a “Browser Choice Screen pop-up” when they first start up their PC.
The EU decided to impose regulations on Microsoft because the web browser company, Opera, voiced its concerns about Microsoft including only Internet Explorer with its operating system. Opera stated that the move was hurting competition from other web browsers. Microsoft had complied with the EU and beginning in March 2010, it instated the “Browser Choice Screen pop-up” in its PCs. Everything was going well until a technical error caused the pop-up to not appear on around 28 million machines. The issue was linked to the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 update released in February 2011.
Microsoft released a statement last year saying that they were taking the matter seriously and will work quickly to fix the issue. This isn’t the first time Microsoft has been fined by the EU. Microsoft is actually one of the companies that violates the EU’s rulings the most. Including the fine today, Microsoft will have paid a total of 2.2 billion euros in fines.
This Microsoft violation will set example for all of the other companies currently entangled with the EU, like Google. The EU isn’t scared to impose strict fines to make sure companies comply with them. However, the EU was a bit lenient this time around. It could have imposed a fine of up to 10% of Microsoft’s annual revenue, but instead it imposed a fine that equaled only 1% of Microsoft’s revenue.
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Microsoft fined $731m for EU violation is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In a new advertisement focused on Internet Explorer, Microsoft addresses the elephant in the room, which is that the company’s web browser hasn’t been up to snuff in recent years, but Microsoft is slowly changing that by introducing new features that appeal to those who use competitors like Firefox or Chrome. Specifically, the add features a persistant internet troll who bashes Internet Explorer, but eventually comes around to accept that it’s getting better.
The overall message of the advertisement was “progress,” which appears at the end of the ad, and reassures users that Microsoft can’t build Rome in a day, but are making progress to improve their web browser and make it as feature-filled and fast as possible. Microsoft has certainly done that with their latest versions.
Anyone who has used Internet Explorer 9 knows that the browser took on a whole new meaning of quality, and the company continued their momentum with Internet Explorer 10. The video above tracks an internet troll throughout the evening, and shows him commenting on Facebook and various forums about how “IE SUCKS.” However, at the end, the troll is succumbed to admit that Internet Explorer has improved after seeing other comments that mention different new features.
While it was a great advertisement from Microsoft, it was a bold, but classy move on their part. Essentially, they admitted that their web browser actually wasn’t that great in the past, and instead of just saying, “it’s all better now! IE10 is now the best browser!,” they simply note that it’s improving and that progress is key for the company.
Microsoft takes on trolls with new Internet Explorer advertisement is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We knew last month that Microsoft was going to be bringing Internet Explorer 10 over to Windows 7. The company has kept up on its promise and now has the release preview of IE10 available now for download for Windows 7 users. Beside new touch controls, IE10 promises faster loading times for web pages and improved security.
As expected, the Windows 7 version of Internet Explorer 10 has the same look and feel as the Windows 8 version, and includes features such as full-screen browsing, hardware acceleration, multitouch support, and a “Flip ahead” feature that guesses what webpage you want to see next on websites with multiple pages.
While most Windows 7 computers don’t have multitouch displays, you’ll still be able to do multitouch gestures in the IE10 preview using your trackpad if you have the right drivers for it. It also has the privacy-conscience “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, which has gotten Microsoft into a pickle once already.
Download the Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 here for free. If you have auto-update turned on in Internet Explorer 9, you’ll automatically get upgraded to IE10 when it becomes available as a final release. Older versions of Windows, like Vista and XP, won’t be getting IE10.
Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 now available is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Back in 2009, Microsoft announced support for Do Not Track in Internet Explorer 9. Soon after, DNT support was added by Mozilla, Apple, and Opera to each company’s respective browser. With Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft has DNT enabled by default. Yahoo! doesn’t like this move, and released a statement that it will ignore the browser’s DNT signal.
Do Not Track is a technology aimed at addressing privacy concerns that lets Internet users opt out of being tracked by websites. Do Not Track is like the Internet version of the Do Not Call registry, according to donottrack.us. DNT works via a simple HTTP header, and is the by-product of a collaboration by several advocacy groups, tech companies, and researchers.
In the announcement, Yahoo! stated that it supports DNT “in principle,” and that it is working with partners to create an opt-out standard for users. It followed this by stating that Microsoft’s unilateral decision to enable DNT by default in Internet Explorer 10 makes it “hard to deliver on our value proposition” to users. As a result, the company says that it will still offer Ad Interest Manager and related tools, but will not recognize the Microsoft browser’s DNT signal on its properties.
Yahoo! is working with W3C in the pursuit of a Do Not Track standard that, it says, is in line with user expectations and an optimal Internet experience. “Ultimately, we believe that DNT must map to user intent — not to the intent of one browser creator, plug-in writer, or third-party software service.” W3C recommends that DNT be an opt-in preference.
[via Yahoo! Policy Blog]
Yahoo! refuses to recognize Internet Explorer 10′s Do Not Track is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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For all of Microsoft’s talk of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, we’ve heard precious little about the Windows 7 version beyond the certainty that it was coming. Eventually. Someday. The company is partly putting that anxiety to bed with word that IE 10 should be available for the Metrophobic in mid-November, but only in a preview version — a possible sign that Microsoft’s Windows 8 RTM deadline prevented the concurrent platform releases we’ve grown accustomed to in recent years. The team in Redmond is hinging its launch of a finished Windows 7 build on the feedback it gets, so we’d suggest that those willing to experiment with a new browser (but not a new OS) still give IE 10 a shot next month.
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Internet Explorer 10 preview coming to Windows 7 semi-Luddites in mid-November originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google has been aggressive about keeping Google Apps owners on the same (web) page. The company’s cloud platform typically won’t acknowledge any browser more than one version out of date, and it’s about to put that rapid upgrade strategy to the test by dropping support for Internet Explorer 8. On November 15th, shortly after IE10 arrives in sync with Windows 8, Google will leave IE8 web app users to fend for themselves — and, by extension, Windows XP users without an alternative browser. While the cutoff doesn’t amount to a full-fledged block, Google Apps users still stuck in 2009 will be reminded that they’re on their own until they upgrade. Is it the end of the world for web apps on older PCs? No, but it’s clear that their days are numbered.
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Google Apps to shed support for Internet Explorer 8, your Windows XP machine won’t cut it originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
User agent profiles on the web aren’t always guarantees of what you’ll get in a future device, but this is one of those moments where we’d like the details to be true. A Samsung-made Windows Phone 8 device for T-Mobile, the SGH-T899, lines up closely with the higher-end Odyssey we’d previously only seen in a purported roadmap. Along with alluding to the OS itself through the presence of Internet Explorer 10, there’s a reference to the hinted-at 1,280 x 720 screen that you won’t find on any Windows Phone 7 gear. The profile even contains a suggestion of LTE support, although we’re still wondering whether or not this would be very aggressive futureproofing or just an incidental aspect of the possible Snapdragon S4 chip — Magenta isn’t flicking the LTE switch until 2013. At least the rumored fall release date gives us a comparatively short wait before we learn whether the Odyssey and T899 are one and the same, or real at all.
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Samsung SGH-T899 for T-Mobile emerges on the web with potential Windows Phone 8, LTE originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Many advertisers weren’t thrilled when Microsoft proclaimed that ‘do not track’ would be the default for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, but that reaction hasn’t made the folks in Redmond flinch. Brendon Lynch, the company’s Chief Privacy Officer, announced that the ‘do not track’ default is already baked into the code of the October-bound operating system that has been released to manufacturers. Upon booting Windows 8 for the first time, users will be greeted with a choice between “Express Settings” or “Customize,” the former of which has “do not track” enabled. IE 10 on Windows 7 will receive a similar treatment, with a “prominent notice” about the setting being switched on appearing alongside a link to additional information. Despite Microsoft’s efforts, it’s possible that advertisers could ignore the web browser setting if they feel their negotiations have been for naught. Considering the response to Microsoft’s initial default announcement, we suspect this won’t be the last development in the saga.
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Windows 8 RTM will include ‘do not track’ by default for Internet Explorer 10 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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