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During yesterday's Microsoft keynote at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Tami Reller showed off a version of the hit mobile game "Cut the Rope" that had been ported first to the web and then to Windows 8, which made me wonder if that web version would be made public. Well, it has been made public, and it's available now for free to users of Internet Explorer!
more The Windows 8 Start screen is just the latest in a long line of Windows user interfaces, some evolutionary, some revolutionary. But understood in retrospect, this new UI makes plenty of sense, and it certainly has precedent in Windows UIs past.
more LastPass is a secure, cloud-based password manager and web forms filler. It also happens to be one of the very first third party apps I install whenever I perform a fresh install of Windows. It's a must-have for all Windows users, regardless of which browsers you prefer.
more ActiveX Filtering is a new IE 9 feature that can block all ActiveX controls from working within the browser via a single switch. Then, users (or corporate administrators) can re-enable controls only on those sites they explicitly trust. You can also to re-enable specific controls globally, so they always work no matter which site you visit.
more The latest major update to Mozilla's venerable Firefox web browser offers a new user interface, better performance, better add-on management, and PC-to-PC sync. But is it enough to stave off competition from Microsoft and Google?
more Tracking Protection is a new IE 9 feature that limits the browser's communication with certain web sites, which in turn prevents content on those sites from tracking your online activities. Tracking Protection performs its magic using one or more tracking protection lists, each of which works like a combination white list and black list.
more When Microsoft released the public Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 last fall, I began writing a series of Feature Focus articles that touched on each major new feature in this important browser release. Now, with the final version of IE 9 available, it's time to take another look at those new features and update the series to address features that were added after the Beta.
more Internet Explorer 9 is faster, more secure, more standards compliant, and more efficient than any previous IE version, and if you're using Windows 7, it offers the best OS integration features around. It's available today. Should you switch?
more Today, Microsoft is releasing the final major pre-release milestone of Internet Explorer 9, a release candidate build that the company tells me is very, very close to final. I've only had the RC build for a short time, so a full review isn't yet possible. But I'll save that for the final release of IE: For now, let's take a look at what's new in the release candidate.
more Sometime in the coming days--perhaps even today--Microsoft will officially issue its near-final Release Candidate (RC) version of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to the public. But before that release, a so-called "escrow" build of the IE 9 RC has leaked onto file sharing sites. So here's a quick look at this release in anticipation of a wider review of the actual RC.
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