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- Australia the guinea pig in Internet Explorer upgrade pilot
- by Stephen Withers. ITWire, Friday, 16 December 2011. "Microsoft is preparing a scheme to automatically push the latest version of Internet Explorer to users' systems. This can be seen as Microsoft following in Google's footsteps, as part of the thinking behind Chrome was to ensure people stay on the current version..."
Added: 19 December 2011;
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- Internet Explorer 9 Launch Starts Newest Browser War
- Government Technology, March 14, 2011. "... Internet Explorer 9 fired a salvo Monday, March 14, with the browser's official release. Google Chrome 10 was recently unveiled; Firefox 4.0, meanwhile, is in beta and reportedly could be released in a matter of days. What does it all mean for government agencies and public-sector users? Governments should consider it an opportunity to develop more feature-rich websites that take advantage of the browsers' new capabilities. IE 9, for example, includes a new JavaScript engine and full hardware acceleration of text, video and graphics, plus a more robust support of HTML 5..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Why Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Be Number One
- By Tony Bradley, PCWorld, March 12, 2011. "Internet Explorer 9 will be officially available Monday, March 14. Microsoft has a dominant, but dwindling stake in the overall browser market, led by Internet Explorer 8. The reality, though, is that there is virtually no chance that Internet Explorer 9 will be as successful as IE8..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Microsoft Internet Explorer to block web tracking
- by Nick Wingfield and Jennifer Valentino-Devries, From: The Wall Street Journal. The Australian, December 8, 2010. "Microsoft will revive a powerful privacy feature in Internet Explorer to allow surfers to stop websites from tracking their footprints. The internet giant had recently pulled a similar program from an earlier version of its IE web browser because of concerns about alienating advertisers. The software giant said the next version of its browser, Internet Explorer 9, will allow users to stop certain websites and tracking companies from gathering information about them..."
Added: 9 December 2010;
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- IE6 dependence - a debt that IT need not pay
- Frank Hayes says move away from IE6 will come eventually By Frank Hayes - Framingham. Computerworld, Wednesday, 17 November, 2010. "Internet Explorer may be losing favour among most users, but in big companies, it is still doing fine — especially IE6. Why? "We have to use IE6," a contractor at one telco told me recently. "We have all these web applications that won't run on a browser that isn't broken." And that means big trouble — doesn't it?..."
Added: 18 November 2010;
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- IE 9 does not resize text sized in pixels
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea St, Posted on October 18, 2010. "When trying out the beta of Internet Explorer 9 I noticed that there still seems to be no way of increasing or decreasing the size of text set in pixels without zooming the entire page..."
Added: 22 October 2010;
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- Internet Explorer 9 puts spotlight on website features
- by Glenn Chapman. The Age, September 16, 2010. "... The test, or beta, version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) made its public debut with theatrical flare at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. IE9 taps into more of the processing power in computers, especially the capabilities of graphics chips that excel at seamlessly rendering videos or videogame action..."
Added: 16 September 2010;
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- Microsoft begs users to ditch IE6
- by Lia Timson. The Age, June 30, 2010. "Despite having just released the latest version of its browser software – Internet Explorer 9 – in beta for developers, Microsoft is still trying to convince home and enterprise users to upgrade from IE6 to IE8..."
Added: 1 July 2010;
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- So why use a 9 year old browser?
- Microsoft Corporation, 2010. "When Internet Explorer 6 was launched in 2001, it offered cutting–edge security – for the time. Since then, the Internet has evolved and the security features of Internet Explorer 6 have become outdated. With the latest state–of–the–art security features, Internet Explorer 8 is designed to cope with today's modern cyber crime. In fact, research studies prove it..."
Added: 17 May 2010;
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- Microsoft urges users to dump IE6
- Despite 2014 cut-off date, users encouraged to quit now, By Gregg Keizer - Framingham. Computerworld, Monday, 17 May, 2010. "Microsoft is urging users to dump the aged Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). It has launched a campaign that claims the browser, which debuted in 2001, is past its expiration date. The latest push to convince users to quit IE6 equated the browser to a nine-year-old carton of milk..."
Added: 17 May 2010;
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- Legacy Browser Support: When to Cut the Ties That Bind
- By Jack Aaronson, ClickZ, February 5, 2010. "When developing rather sophisticated sites for high-end retailers, a constant issue is which browsers to support. What are the merits of continuing support for legacy systems, and the merits of looking forward? Many of you probably have similar decisions to make this year while you're pondering your 2010 strategies..."
Added: 12 February 2010;
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- Microsoft: Killing IE6 'not an option'
- Forget move to ditch 8-year-old browser, Microsoft says; IT admins know best, By Gregg Keizer. Computerworld, August 11, 2009. "Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday responded to critics who have called for the death of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), saying "dropping support is not an option" for the eight-year-old browser. While acknowledging that Microsoft is eager for users to upgrade to a new version of IE, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the browser group, said the decision is out of its hands. "The choice to upgrade software on a PC belongs to the person responsible for the PC," said Hachamovitch..."
Added: 14 August 2009;
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- 10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
- by James Edwards. Site Point, 14 August 2009. "... by my estimation, the day is approximately 12 months away when we'll be able to kiss a fond goodbye to IE6 support forever. And when that day comes, here are some useful things we'll be able to do that we couldn’t really do on mainstream sites before..."
Added: 14 August 2009;
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- 'Kill IE6' campaign gains force; 30M Web users get switch pitch
- 'You are using an outdated browser' offer follows similar moves by Facebook, YouTube, by Gregg Keizer. Computerworld, 6 August, 2009. "The campaign to kill Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) gathered steam this week when a California site builder led nearly 40 Web start-ups to urge their users to ditch Microsoft's eight-year-old browser..."
Added: 6 August 2009;
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- Building a business case to move from IE6 to a modern web browser
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - Craig Thomler's personal eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, August 5, 2009. "Here's some notes useful for a business case justifying an upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 to a more modern web browser that I prepared last week for a colleague at another organisation. It supports the priority in Australia 2 to Upgrade all government web browsers..."
Added: 6 August 2009;
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