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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 17, 2012
Internet Explorer 10 coming to Windows 7 mid-November
Windows 8 will be getting a completely-redesigned version of Internet Explorer when the new operating system releases on October 26, and Microsoft has mentioned in the past that it plans to bring the same version to Windows 7 at some point. The company announced today that Internet Explorer 10 will be hitting Windows 7 in mid-November.
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Advertising lobbying group criticizes Microsoft for IE 10 Do Not Track feature
A US-based advertising lobbying group has sent out an open letter to Microsoft that criticizes the company's decision to enable Do Not Track by default in its Internet Explorer 10 that comes bundled with Windows 8. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) called Microsoft’s decision “shocking.”
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MSN portal takes giant Windows 8 touchscreen cue
If you're a Windows user who makes MSN their homepage on the regular, you'll be glad to hear that they'll be getting a giant re-design optimized for the touchscreen environment this Autumn. This change comes at the same time as Windows 8 is released, with a jump-off date of October 26th in the mix. This update brings Windows 8 and Windows RT users using Internet Explorer 10 the chance to keep their touchscreen-usefulness at its hight.
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Windows 8 promises it’s been tested on its makers first
When Microsoft has a new product they want to make perfect before release - all of their products, that is - they work with a testing model they call dogfooding. With dogfooding, they feed themselves the product, the product here being Windows 8, before they send it out as a final iteration. An update from Patrick O'Rourke of Microsoft IT revealed this week how they deployed Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 to their staff well before they did to the general public to test the builds in real world situation on the regular.
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Atari remakes gaming classics in HTML5 for browsers and Windows 8
Atari has decided that it's time to give some of its classic games a fresh coat paint, launching the new Atari Arcade. Eight of Atari's classic games have been updated using HTML5 and are playable in your browser for free. That's not the end of it though, as Atari has also teamed up with Microsoft to bring these games to Windows 8 tablets.
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Google Chrome grabs one third of the global browser market
For a long time Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser sat on a lofty perch well beyond the reach of other browsers on the market. Over the last several years, Internet Explorer has started to lose market share to other browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome. In fact, Chrome was the most popular browser for a while back in May of this year.
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European Commission investigating Microsoft’s browser option commitment [UPDATE: Microsoft responds]
The European Commission probed Microsoft back in 2009 over Internet Explorer’s massive market share, concerned that it was stifling competition thanks to the browser being installed by default on Windows PCs. Microsoft suggested an option screen that would give customers an option between five different browsers, but it turns out that Microsoft may not have implemented the solution for millions of Europeans.
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Internet Explorer 10 coming to Windows Phone 8
Microsoft has announced at the Windows Phone Summit that Internet Explorer 10 will be making the jump from the desktop to Windows Phone 8 when it ships this fall. Internet Explorer 10 will feature numerous performance improvements compared to the current Internet Explorer found on Windows Phone 7.5, such as faster JavaScript performance, more HTML5 features, and an anti-phishing mode.
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Proposed Do Not Track draft kills IE10 DNT default
Recently, Microsoft was bragging that Internet Explorer 10 would be the first browser to come with Do Not Track turned on by default. Do Not Track is aimed at preventing advertisers and ads from tracking a user's navigation on the Internet. Oddly, while Microsoft was touting that Do Not Track was on by default in its coming browser, it also admitted it currently didn't follow DNT signals sent from its own browser or others.
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Internet Explorer heading to Xbox 360 in fall
Microsoft has just confirmed that they will be bringing Internet Explorer to the Xbox 360 sometime this fall. The company has been full of announcements today thanks to its press event at E3 2012, where it's been revealing all sorts of new Kinect, Xbox, and Windows 8 integrations through a new SmartGlass feature.
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Do Not Track announced automatic in IE10
Microsoft has let it be known that their final release of the Internet Explorer 10 web browser software will have "Do Not Track" activated right out of the box. This information has upset advertisers across the board as web ad targeting - based on your online activities - is one of the current mainstays of big-time advertiser profits. What Do Not Track, or DNT does is to send out signal from your web browser, Internet Explorer 10 in this case, to websites letting them know that the user refuses to be seen in such a way.
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