It was pretty much expected that Microsoft would be announcing a preview of IE9 at MIX10 and during the Day 2 of MIX10 conference (A Technology event for Web Designers & Developers) at Las Vegas, Microsoft announced the availability of IE9 Platform preview. The IE9 platform preview is a sneak peak to the upcoming version of one of the most popular web –browser, Internet Explorer 9.

There has been recent cyber attacks on Google. Google & many other large IT Giants too facing such kind of attacks where their confidential data to fall into the hands of well-organized intruders. According to Microsoft, the exploit is made possible due to IE6: "At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks attempting to use this vulnerability against Internet Explorer 6. We have not seen attacks against other versions of Internet Explorer.Newer versions of Internet Explorer and later Windows releases are at reduced risk to the exploit we have seen .Under the “Mitigating Factors” heading, the Microsoft Security Response Center specifically notes that the exploit used in this case does not run under IE7 and IE8 in Windows Vista or Windows 7. You’ve got one extra layer of protection if you use IE8, even under Windows XP Service Pack 3, thanks to Data Execution Prevention, which is enabled by default.

My friend Raghu has released a full fledged PowerToys/Tweaker utility “IE Tweaker v1.0” for its users.

IE Tweaker is a freebie that will help to fix various issues with Internet Explorer. It has also a great number of fixes/tweaks that will help you to enable/disable any options with ease and without getting in to registry. IE Tweaker will be a great utility for those, who don’t want to play with the Windows registry.IE Tweaker has over 90+ tweaks that includes Browsing Options, Clear Junk Files, Restrictions, Security, Repair, Tweak IE – Basic Tweaks,Browser Menus,Toolbars,Control Panel,Advanced Tweaks.

DUG is now having an event for Students only. This time sepcially for student we are presenting 3 sessions which are will be delivering by 3 MSPs (Rishu Mehra, Amit Khilnaney & Rahat Khanna). Sessions will be on Windows 7, IE8 Customization with IEAK & Windows Azure.

For registration: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=142720

Venue:
5th Floor, Microsoft’s Office,
Eros Croporate Tower,
Nehru Place, New Delhi,
Pin – 110019
Date: 31st October (Saturday), 2009
Timings: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

You can create a shortcut that directly takes to your website.But it is at desktop just like the application shortcuts.Steps to create a Website shortcut on your desktop :

Thereafter you can give a name to the shortcut.

Done.Your Favorite website now just a click (Double Click) away.

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Internet Explorer 8 is now available in 18 additional languages including Hindi

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/04/24/internet-explorer-8-is-now-available-in-18-additional-languages.aspx

Overall a total of 43 languages.

Is browsing always slow in Internet Explorer? Does it frequently stop responding (hang), or stop working (crash)? Do you receive error messages that indicate that Internet Explorer has “encountered a problem and needs to close”? Or that a Visual C++ “runtime error” has occurred in Iexplore.exe?

If so, then you might want to try resetting Internet Explorer. When you reset Internet Explorer settings, all add-ons and customizations are deleted, and you basically start with a fresh version of Internet Explorer. This article helps you reset Internet Explorer.