Internet Explorer 8 news from FierceCIO

At the Mix conference, held in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off a pre-alpha build of IE9 and offered the world a glimpse of the new browser. Calling the software it demonstrated the... Read more...

Statistics have shown that Internet Explorer 6 (IE) commanded a staggering 23.3 percent of the browser market in October. This, despite its age and a list of problems--especially security-related... Read more...

Independent online security outfit NSS Labs has released two reports that say Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) web browser is more effective when it comes to blocking phishing and malware. One... Read more...

The final build of Internet Explorer 8 has been announced by Microsoft, and is now available for various platforms including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.... Read more...

Barely hours after Microsoft's official launch of Internet Explorer 8, Nils, a computer science student from Germany managed to break into a Sony laptop running Windows 7 and IE8. The hack was... Read more...

Rumor has it that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 could be Microsoft's last IE release. That's the news that has been circulating in recent days, and the prospect has some in the FOSE community all... Read more...

Microsoft has released an update for the beta of Windows 7, directly addressing compatibility and reliability issues related to Internet Explorer 8. This update came about as a result of user... Read more...

Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer saw a considerable dip in its market share in December, garnering just 68.15 percent of web surfers who were monitored in December. This is a steep decrease... Read more...

Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 3.1, which incorporates the faster TraceMonkey JavaScript engine as default, was finally made available earlier this week. Beyond the additional support for emerging web... Read more...

During a press demonstration for beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8, product marketing director Stephane Kimmerlin noted that IE8's most important features are related to enhancements made to its... Read more...