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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:02 AM

Working with the IE ActiveX Update

To learn more about how IE works with the IE ActiveX Update and the options at your disposal to control the user experience of your web pages, please review this article on MSDN. You can try out the new behavior today on released versions of IE6 or IE7
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:57 PM

More on Simple List Extensions

There are two posts on the RSS team blog about the use of the Simple List Extensions , which have been implemented by IE7 and the Windows RSS Platform. The first is Simple List Extensions in action , and it shows examples of live sites (like Amazon.com,
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:05 PM

New info on IE ActiveX update

For new information on the IE ActiveX Update, please see Mike Nash’s announcement . Due to the sensitive nature of this issue, we are not taking comments on this post. Thanks for your understanding. - Tony Chor
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Monday, March 27, 2006 12:40 PM

MSFeeds.dll setup bug

Hi, My Name is Stephen Anacker and I am a tester working on IE7 setup. I have read that a number of you have seen the following error when attempting to install the IE7 preview: “Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\msfeeds.dll The specific procedure could
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Friday, March 24, 2006 10:03 AM

Announcing Internet Explorer Feedback

Many customers have asked us about having a better way to enter IE bugs. It is asked "Why don't you have Bugzilla like Firefox or other groups do?" We haven't always had a good answer except it is something that the IE team has never done before. After
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Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:13 PM

Layout Complete Announced at MIX06

Thursday, March 23 rd and I am sitting in the airport heading home from MIX06. It was a great conference with very good customer interactions. Also hanging out with Eric , Molly , Andy , Tantek and Dave was a lot of fun. Yesterday, I had my talk, “ Making
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:53 PM

Developer Toolbar Refresh

As some of you noticed the developer toolbar ceased to function in the refresh preview build of IE7 made available earlier this week. We made some changes that affected the dev toolbar so we shipped a newer version to line up with the new build of IE7.
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Monday, March 20, 2006 5:23 PM

Safety First at Mix06

I’m really excited for my talk tomorrow here at Mix06 . This conference feels more like a party than work. We’re free from the blue-shirt uniform of normal conferences and I’ve tried to make my talk all content - no slides (ok, there are a few slides
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Monday, March 20, 2006 10:33 AM

New IE7 Build Available from MIX06!

Today is the first day of the MIX06 conference. Internet Explorer team members are presenting this week on much of the work we've done for IE7. As part of the conference, we're handing out the "Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit" on CD. This toolkit
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Friday, March 17, 2006 11:00 PM

Getting Ready for MIX06!

Hi, I’m Cyra Richardson, relatively new Lead Program Manager on the IE team. As the new person, I was handed the opportunity to coordinate the content for the IE team’s participation at MIX06 . It’s Friday, Tony is running on next to no sleep, Peter is
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:32 PM

IE March Chat Transcript Online

The transcript of last week’s Expert Zone chat is now available. The chat was a lot of fun and the team managed to answer over 160 questions during the hour. This month we were fortified by home baked chocolate espresso bars, next month I expect we’ll
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:47 PM

Security tweaks in IE7

As we’ve described previously, we’ve made some major architectural improvements to improve browsing security in Internet Explorer 7, including Protected Mode , Phishing Filter , Enhanced Validation SSL , and other features in support of our overall security
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:02 PM

Fix My Settings in IE7

Hi, this is Max and Uche from the user experience team. We want to talk to you about what we call the Fix My Settings feature. You will encounter this if you set your security settings to an insecure state whilst in the Internet or Restricted zone. When
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:08 PM

March Chat with the IE Team

On Thursday March 9 th at 10:00AM PST it will be time for the monthly Expert Zone Chat with the IE team. Members of the Internet Explorer team will be present to discuss the product and answer your questions. These chats are always a lot of fun with team
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Friday, March 03, 2006 7:58 PM

Sample RSS Screensaver

Walter has posted details about the RSS Screensaver sample that’s recently gone live on MSDN. If you have IE7 Beta 2 Preview installed (and who doesn’t?), subscribe to a couple of photo feeds (RSS feeds with pictures as enclosures – examples are in Walter’s
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Friday, March 03, 2006 1:00 PM

ClearType in Internet Explorer 7

Hi. My name is Bill Hill, and I’m one of the original inventors of ClearType. My job at Microsoft is Director of Advanced Reading Technologies. The ClearType and Readability Research Group which handles the ongoing development of ClearType reports to
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:29 AM

IE7 Shapes Up

I am sitting here with Molly Holzschlag and Andy Clarke at the W3C Technical Plenary meeting in Mandelieu, France and I am showing them our latest bits, which we plan to hand out for the MIX06 conference (and yes, we’ll hand out publicly after the conference
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:50 PM

Windows Vista and Parental Controls in IE7

Hello World! I’m Sharon Cohen, Program Manager for parental controls in IE7. If you haven’t heard about Windows Vista Parental Controls, be sure to read Brian’s blog post which gives a great overview of the feature. I’d like to fill you in on the great
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:45 PM

Family Safety on Windows Vista

My name is Brian Trenbeath, a Program Manager on the Windows Vista team, and I would like to take a quick moment to tell you about the new set of Family Safety features coming with Windows Vista. First, many thanks to the IE team for allowing me time
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