You may remember that Google recently changed its privacy policy, saying that it will now track users across all of its products instead of keeping individual data sets for each one. Understandably some people might be upset, and Microsoft wants to remind those people of the products it has that compete with Google. Specifically, Microsoft more »

Microsoft doesn’t want its Internet Explorer users to be too far behind, so soon it will bring automatic updates to Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Starting next month in Australia and Brazil, and rolling out from there, Microsoft will enable automatic updates to Internet Explorer 8 and 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. The more »

Google Chrome has officially knocked Firefox out of second place globally for the first time in November, according to Stat Counter. The report shows that Chrome accounted for 25.69% of the global market compared to Firefox’s 25.23% standing. Internet explorer, however, is still ousting its competitors at a solid 40.63% globally. “We can look forward more »

It’s good to see that the fine folks behind the Norway based web browser Opera have a little sense of humor. As today is television personality Oprah Winfrey’s final show, the Opera family decided to give a warm shot out to Winfrey as well as some of her confused fans who have accidentally contacted Opera more »

Regardless of where you stand in terms of browsers, or more specifically, regardless of what you think of Internet Explorer — Microsoft did come up with some rather nice download numbers for IE9. According to the details coming from the Windows Team Blog, they manage to serve up 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 more »

According to StatCounter, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has taken over the throne of most used single web browser in Europe. The former king of the hill, Internet Explorer 7, was bested by Mozilla and company last week by taking 21.93% of the market while IE7 landed a score of 21.2% share. Keep in mind that Microsoft more »

Microsoft has recently made the developer preview of the all-new Internet Explorer 9 available at http://www.ietestdrive.com/. Internet Explorer 9 will be supporting HTML5 video, and it sports a multi-core capable JavaScript engine codenamed “Chakra” (hear that engine roar!), and supporting new web technologies that gives it the edge like CSS3 and SVG2. The Chakra JavaScript more »

Internet Explorer is notorious for not having features or rendering systems that are in line with today’s trends. Even the latest version of Internet Explorer pales in comparison with other browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Many video sharing websites such as Youtube are dabbling with HTML5 as a method to display videos. Flash more »

Recently, Google has decided to stop offering key functions of their Google Docs and Sites services for Internet Explorer 6 browsers. The only browsers that can work with Google Docs and Sites include Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Google Chrome 4.0+, and Safari 3.0+. The changes will begin March 1, and while some functions more »

Recently, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology had advised their citizens to stop using Internet Explorer. Whether they had an older version or the latest, the German Federal Office discovered some severe vulnerabilities in the browser security. Now France has taken similar measures and advised their citizens to switch from IE to more »