IEBlog - Participating at W3C’s TPAC 2009
This week the W3C holds its annual __Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting_ (TPAC 2009). There will be about a dozen people from the IE team parti...
Microsoft product pipeline continues to be strong
There were a number of announcements at TechEd US last week with many status updates on forthcoming products. Bruce Kyle has written up the list on the US IS...
Does your PC support hardware virtualisation?
The release of a beta of Virtual PC for Windows 7 allows Windows XP applications to run in a way that integrates them into the usual Windows desktop without ...
Legacy printers and Windows 7
I have an old printer. Very old. It’s an Epson EPL-5500 and I got it in about 1995/6 and it has served me well ever since. Soon I might need a new printer (s...
Windows Mobile Devices and Windows 7
Yesterday, I started experimenting with building a simple application using the .NET Compact Framework v3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. It was pretty simple to g...
“A webpage is not responding on the following website” in IE8 on Win7
Yesterday, a note was posted on the IE blog about the “hang recovery” feature in IE8 on Windows 7. During testing, it was found that the timer used to determ...
Dell Inspiron 1525 drivers for running Windows 7 64-bit
Ia€™ve been running builds of Win7 on my 1525 for some time after doing an in-place upgrade from Vista 32-bit to the Win7 Beta. We recently announced that we...
VS2005 and VS2008 Wizards Pop Up Script Errors after installing IE8
The Visual Studio and Internet Explorer teams discovered an issue affecting some of the code wizards in Visual Studio after installing IE8. Visual Studio hos...
ALT attribute and ToolTips
For as long as I can remember (I think going back to IE3), Internet Explorer has displayed a ToolTip containing the contents of the ALT attribute for IMG ele...
Why doesn’t Microsoft just fix all of the bugs before they ship?
Back in December, the Office Sustained Engineering team wrote a blog attempting to answer the question, a€oeWhy doesna€™t Office just fix all of the bugs bef...
Getting off IE6?
Scott Hanselman has a post talking about how to encourage users to upgrade their browser from IE6 to something newer. Ita€™s true that there are still a larg...
A new beginning
On 2nd May, 1997, the Tony Blair led the Labour Party to the first election victory over the Conservatives for 18 years. This was a landslide victory, the wo...