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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:25 PM

Principles behind IE7’s Phishing Filter

My last post was intended to introduce our overall security strategy and the specific features in IE7 Beta1 for XP SP2 and Windows Vista. A lot of responses to my post were questions about why and how the Microsoft Phishing Filter in IE7 will check websites.
Posted by ieblog | 51 Comments
Monday, August 29, 2005 3:17 PM

All your <base> are belong to us

For IE 7 we decided to make some changes to the way the <BASE> tag is handled to bring it up to spec and at the same time fix some really odd behavior. In the process we expect some people relying on the previous behavior to have to update their
Posted by ieblog | 67 Comments
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:12 PM

Internet Explorer turns 10

The first Microsoft product I ever shipped, Windows 95, launched 10 years ago today. Around the same time we also launched Internet Explorer 1.0 (though with considerably less fanfare), which quickly gave way to IE 2.0 (which shipped with the Plus! Pack
Posted by ieblog | 83 Comments
Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:19 PM

IE Security talk at Hack in the Box

As some of you have noted in the comments, I will be doing a keynote presentation at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 28. The title of my presentation is “Internet Explorer Security Past, Present, and Future”. I’ll
Posted by ieblog | 52 Comments
Friday, August 19, 2005 8:26 PM

Exploring Internet Explorer

Today we launched a new column on MSDN called “ Exploring Internet Explorer ”. Currently there is a single article there from Eric Lawrence on Zones and Proxies where he explores some of the interesting ways that the intranet zone and proxies can interact.
Posted by ieblog | 21 Comments
Monday, August 15, 2005 10:03 PM

URLs in Internet Explorer 7

Internet Explorer 7 includes a new URL handling architecture known internally as CURI. The new optimized URI functions provide more secure and consistent parsing of URIs to reduce attack surface and mitigate the threat of malicious URIs. When designing
Posted by ieblog | 98 Comments
Friday, August 12, 2005 4:16 PM

New IE 7 Icon and Logo

Hopefully, by now you’ve seen from our posts that there are a lot of new features and work going into IE 7. As part of this update, we’re refreshing our icon and logotype. We considered more radical departures from our current logo, but blue “e” with
Posted by ieblog | 172 Comments
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:26 PM

Search in Beta 1

Hi, I’m Aaron Sauve, Program Manager focused on features relating to the Internet Explorer user interface. One of these features is web search. Now that Beta 1 is out in the wild I would like to say a few quick words about what we have included and give
Posted by ieblog | 35 Comments
Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:55 PM

IE August 2005 Security Update is now available!

The IE August 2005 security updates are now available! This group of security updates is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates available via the new Microsoft Update . We encourage you to
Posted by ieblog | 24 Comments
Friday, August 05, 2005 12:54 PM

IE and RSS team at the PDC

The IE and RSS team is going to be attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year between September 13th and 16th in Los Angeles. This is Microsoft’s premier conference for developers where you can learn from and connect with
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:25 PM

Back from Black Hat

After some very long days and nights, the IE delegation is back from Vegas . Some sessions I found especially interesting: Alex S & Scott Stender – Attacking Web Services Jeremiah Grossman – Phishing with Super Bait tamos Johnny Long – Google Hacking
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:40 AM

Security strategy for IE7: Beta 1 overview, Beta 2 preview

Security as a feature can be hard to measure. I want to provide some insight into our security strategy so our customers and partners can understand the direction we’re heading with Beta 1 and beyond to Beta 2. All of the work the IE security team has
Posted by ieblog | 65 Comments
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:33 PM

RSS Features in IE 7 for XP and Windows Vista Beta 1

Hi! I’m Jane Kim, program manager for RSS in Internet Explorer. Now that Beta 1 of IE 7 for Windows XP and Windows Vista are released, I want to introduce to you the RSS features that are available in this release. You may be asking what RSS is. It stands
Posted by ieblog | 114 Comments
 
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