Microsoft's got a lot of reputation riding on the final releases of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. Making both available to the masses in beta version is a good way to take the pulse of public ...

— -- Microsoft's updated browser, Internet Explorer 8, promises an assortment of new features, with the goals of making Web browsing with IE safer, easier, and more compatible with Net standards.

Here's how it breaks down. Microsoft released IE8 Beta 1 before XP Service Pack 3 became available. Users who downloaded and installed SP3 after IE8 Beta 1 are urged by Microsoft to manually uninstall ...

As Microsoft appeals the antitrust verdict related to Internet Explorer, the company is inching toward delivering the first public preview of a standalone, next-generation browser. Mary Jo Foley Mary ...

Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event. Microsoft’s ...

With all the attention paid to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in recent years, it’s easy to forget that Internet Explorer is still the World’s most widely used Web browser. This is the landscape IE ...

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 1 for developers, released by Microsoft on March 6, offers some fascinating new capabilities. For example, it introduces two new features called Activities and WebSlices ...

The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) beta was downloaded more than two million times in the first 48 hours it was available–a significantly faster rate than the Internet Explorer 8 beta. The launch event and ...

A new Internet Explorer beta shows that Microsoft is trying to put its browser security woes behind it. The software maker released the third and last beta version of IE 7 on Thursday, getting closer ...

Microsoft has delivered the public beta of Internet Explorer 9, the upcoming update to its web browser, adding a new user interface designed to be as stripped-down as possible. The beta was unveiled ...

Microsoft is planning to make a beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP available to the general public within the next four months. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet ...

The biggest visible change in Internet Explorer 7 may be the addition of tabbed browsing, but an even more important improvements lurks under the hood: Microsoft has added a host of substantial new ...