IE9 Beta launch: is your mind melting?

Back at the hotel after a full day of IE9 goodness, hope you all have had a chance to download and install the bits on your Vista or Windows 7 machines.  Long Zheng has ... Read more »

IE9 Beta launch: are you excited?

On Wednesday (11am PDT GMT-7)we’ll be in San Francisco for “Beauty of the Web”, the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9.  IE9 promises to bring modern standards compliant browsing to a Microsoft browser for ... Read more »

IE9 Beta launch: “The Beauty of the Web”

For many, Internet Explorer has been much more a beast than a beauty over the last few years, but with a new emphasis on standards, on using the “same markup”, Microsoft has finally come ... Read more »

A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think?

This morning Mary Jo Foley caught Microsoft’s Russian subsidiary’s website showing off what looks like our first glimpse at the new IE9 UI: The single image (since taken down, of course) shows a simplified ... Read more »

Third IE9 Platform Preview Available

Yesterday the third IE9 Platform preview got released. This release includes support for the HTML5 <audio>, <video>, and <canvas> elements, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), and many other new and improved capabilities. The ... Read more »

The Numbers Game: LiveSide visitor data

With the announcement that Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials will require Windows Vista or Windows 7, (and with a little glitch in our system that made commenting via IE unavailable for a few days), ... Read more »

IE9 Platform Preview Two now available

The second platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 is now available, stiill with the Test Drive page, but with lots of new demos in the categories of Speed, HTML5, and Graphics Looks ... Read more »

What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have ... Read more »