A lot is riding on the success of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft lost 7 percent browser market share in the past year because of users’ unhappiness with Internet Explorer 7 and the emergence of the ...

Those who expect Internet Explorer 8 to be a warmed-over version of IE7 or a me-too response to Firefox 3 will be surprised by the just-released Beta 2 of IE8. It offers a well-thought-out set of ...

Over the past year, Internet Explorer has lost market share while browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and even the nascent Google browser Chrome have made incremental gains. Microsoft ...

When you’re on a site that features an RSS feed, the small RSS button on the Internet Explorer toolbar, normally gray, lights up orange. Click it and select a feed to read it, and if you decide you ...

Microsoft has discussed some of the techniques Windows 8 will use to mitigate browser flaws in Internet Explorer 10, and Firefox and Chrome will be able to get in on the action too.

Microsoft is introducing a feature to Internet Explorer 9 that gives users control over how sites can and cannot track their activity. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

It was years, maybe even decades, in the making, but the giant will finally be put to sleep in a little over a month. One of the pioneers of the internet, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has served its ...

Microsoft (MSFT) is adding extra privacy controls to Internet Explorer to limit the amount of information that users disclose while surfing the Web. The new Microsoft feature will allow users to ...

December 11 marked the birthday of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, which Google inexplicably left running nearly 21 years. We say “nearly” because we had this hands-on birthday post written ...

Microsoft's iconic browser Internet Explorer was shut down on Wednesday, 27 years after its launch. Twitter was awash with nostalgic posts and memes about the browser, despite its many faults. The ...