Internet Explorer 8

IE 8 Beta 2 is now available! John Hrvatin, Program Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Tools sits down with me to discuss at a high level the new additions to IE 8's developer tools (aka Dev Tools). These include JavaScript performance profiling, CSS profiling and formatting exploration. …

Internet Explorer, like all applications released by Microsoft and other software companies, undergoes immense amounts of rigorous testing before being released in the wild. Given the nature of what IE does (compute, calculate, and render random HTML strings into a coherent pixel mesh that…

It's PDC week and trust me, that's what everybody is talking about- but the 'Softies did manage to stir up quite a bit of buzz for these stories:Microsoft gives out Facebook SDKMSN Video -->  Bing VideoTag n TweetBill Gates- where are you?Dolly Parton loves IE8! Also--…

В шестом выпуске Петр Диденко и Михаил Черномордиков обсуждают грядущую конференцию MIX, на которой ожидается немало интересных анонсов, а также спорят про возможности Internet Explorer 8. Также в выпуске традиционно ответы на вопросы слушателей. Подписка на RSS…

Today a new experiment comes out of Redmond in the form of a new toolbar for Internet Explorer that analyzes the web pages you are looking at and applies what it sees to your social networks. This means the proper nouns and contextual references in the sites you're looking at are matched up to the…

IE team General Manager Dean Hachamovitch and IE Test Manager Jason Upton sit down with me to discuss the significance of today's IE 8 RC1 release. What did the IE team learn from the Beta 2 release? What changes did they make in response to customer feedback? Will the IE team still…

Pete LePage works as a PM on the Internet Explorer team working with developer security. He stopped by the studio today to give us some tips as surfers, as well as a few tips for developers, on some of the things that can help prevent security threats. In 2008 a study showed that about…

Believe it or not us 'Softies found some really interesting news stories that did NOT have anything to do with Kanye West or the VMA's. Here's what really mattered at Microsoft Campus this week:Browsers & BatteriesBing images put to good useXbox AnywhereThe Xbox Anywhere Channel 10…

There are plenty of new things to talk about with Internet Explorer 8, and no time like the present since it’s officially released! In this screencast, we begin with a tour of the new consumer features from the relatively minor of tab groups and improved zooming through the major with tab process…

The web developer community is curious to know what’s new for JScript in IE8. In this show,  the JScript Evangelist, Janakiram MSV interviews the program managers who own the key JScript features. The JScript team is based out of IDC in Hyderabad. We own the scripting engine for IE8 &…