Today Microsoft has launched a new website that aims to help protect internet users around the world who are using an out of date web browser. Microsoft has found that socially engineered malware presents the biggest online security threat, this information comes form over 600 million systems around the world from over 100 countries. Internet [...]

Last week I attended the UK Imagine Cup Finals. During the day we were given a few very interesting points but the video below was perhaps the funniest thing we saw (apart from Ben being told he should eat less cakes). The video, as far as I know, has not been released by Microsoft but [...]

Yesterday Wired.co.uk released a new web app which offers a new way to browse around the Wired website, it is called The Wired Mind. This web app, like many others, works very well in IE9 because of the HTML5 and hardware acceleration and it did feel like an app not a web page. It’s a [...]

Today, if you write the date down in the American date form is 03.14, or as its also known as “Pi Day” as the date is the same as the beginning of Pi. However, today should also have the similarly geeky name of “IE Day” for it is the day that Microsoft release its latest [...]

I was just reading an article on Cnet when a new IE9 banner ad popped up. I showed how to pin a site in three easy steps. A big number 1 came up, then an outline of IE9 with a website loaded. Step 2 was dragging the site’s favicon to the Windows 7 taskbar. Finally [...]

Last week Liveside wrote about something related to IE9 called Dev Unplugged, I then found a bit more info on it and discovered it was a competition of sorts to get people to develop interactive websites without the use of plugins. Today Microsoft have officially announced the Dev Unplugged contest. The contest is asking people [...]

Earlier today Liveside wrote an article about a new IE9 related mystery which goes by the name of Dev:unplugged. Little is known about what this is so I had a hunt around for more information. A Bing search later I had found the below link to a Microsoft site mentioning Dev:unplugged. Sadly this site had [...]

Continuing my procrastination I’ve designed another wallpaper, enjoy. Feel free to share this but make sure you credit the site, thanks.

In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft today released a new version of Internet Explorer 9, the Release Candidate. This brings a host of new features from a cleaner UI, more speed improvements and better security and protection. For a full list of new features have a look at this list by Liveside. You can download [...]

Just in case you didn’t know but the BBC iPlayer has Internet Explorer 9 support in the form of jump lists and media controls when the iPlayer is pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7. Here you can see that I am watching Episodes (the third episode) and when I hover over the iPlayer icon [...]