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Microsoft Internet Explorer

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Watch the Funniest Commerical Microsoft Has Ever Made

    Microsoft has set the bar pretty low for their commercials, probably peaking with getting the double rainbow guy to shill their photo-editing software. They would rather have Apple drive a hammer through their proverbial face than admitting room for improvement in their products. Which is why it's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Anatomy of a Hoax: Study Showing Internet Explorer Users Have Low IQs Was Fake

    ​Oops! Hundreds of media outlets around the world--including Seattle Weekly, the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes--reported last week on a study that found people who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than users of other browsers. Apparently we were the fools.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Use Internet Explorer? You're Probably Dumb, Study Says

    ​People who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than people who use other browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome, a new study finds. AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., company founded in 2006, administered 101,326 IQ tests to people who visited their website over a four-week period. Researchers h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Fine, We'll Admit It: Microsoft's Bendable Mouse Looks Really Awesome

    Microsoft, bendable mouse, arc touch, zune, gadgets

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Microsoft Throws in the Towel on Hacker Competition, Releases No Upgrades for Browser

    ​The Pwn2Own challenge is a contest in which computer-security geeks and hackers face off in a race to hack their way into the four top browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. It's a chance for the Zero Cools of the world to flex their mouse mus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Microsoft Adds Anti-Tracking Software to Explorer 9, Advertisers Cry: "But We Love Spying"

    ​Most folks would likely agree that companies' abilities to track every move you make online, then custom build an advertising strategy designed to flood your cerebral cortex with uncontrollable desires to buy stuff is a bad thing. It took a while to convince Microsoft of this, but it appears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Google Chrome Speed Test Helps Explain Why Internet Explorer Is Dying (VID)

    Reports indicate it will take a full seven years for Microsoft's Internet Explorer to die off completely. A timetable that's sure to accelerate once everyone sees what kind of cool, Rube Goldberg-esque crap you can pull with Google's Chrome.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Microsoft Uses Tech Blog to (Sort of) Confirm Courier

    The Courier. It exists! Probably!​Microsoft's normal response to most inquiries about new or rumored products is usually succinct: "No comment." So it's noteworthy when the tight-lipped company offers more than its typical two-word answer, let alone when they farm out the publicity to a tech b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Flaw in Internet Explorer Cause of Google's Decision to Uncensor Chinese Searches

    This is how the world sees Google. A pleasant PR scenario for which they can thank rival Microsoft.​A side effect of Google's decision to stop censoring it's search engine in China has been the unwanted spotlight it's cast on Microsoft. A starring role the Redmond giant has handled with all th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Why Microsoft Cares That You Use Internet Explorer

    Kill it, you rabid little fox! Kill it till it's dead!​Earlier this week, the European Union dropped antitrust charges against Microsoft after the software giant agreed to offer Windows users a choice of 12 different browsers. If you're like me (i.e. you can make a computer crash just by loo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Microsoft Trails Firefox in Critical Slovakian Browser Market!

    Is Microsoft losing its grip of tiny Eastern European markets?​Everybody pisses on Internet Explorer, and nowhere more so than in Europe, where antitrust issues have dogged Microsoft for years. Two years back, the European Commission forced the company to sell a version of Windows without its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    We Must Strive Daily to Follow the Shining Bing Example of Comrade Lu!

    ​With Labor Day weekend approaching, most offices slow down. Half the staff is on vacation. Lunch hour drags on for hours. Email goes unanswered for weeks. But not so for Microsoft's unstoppable search engine dynamo Qi Lu, who was hired from Yahoo! to optimize and expand the reach of Bing. (Bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    This Day in History: Microsoft Bails Out Apple

    Uncle Bill got a chilly welcome from Apple's shareholders​It was August 6, 1997, Microsoft was being sued by the federal government, and Apple was struggling. No one had even heard of an iPod. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced to the company's shareholders that Microsoft was buying $150 million i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Bad News for Microsoft? Obama Admin to Beef Up Antitrust Enforcement

    The other day, we joked about Microsoft returning to its glory days by using its Windows monopoly to elbow out web browsers that compete with Internet Explorer. Well, perhaps it will be returning to its glory days on the legal front as well. If you'll recall, back when the company was making big b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Microsoft Kindly Insists That Windows 7 Users Surf on Internet Explorer

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Page Up? Pay Up

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • Diversions

    August 29, 2007

    Please Help! I Want My Lady to Love My Beard

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    Clean Slate

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Microsoft's Big Bet: Win With the Web

    Bill Gates is revamping Microsoft's core product with a souped-up, Web-linked version dubbed Windows Vista. Due later this year, it's the biggest rollout in a decade, with high-stakes implications for the company's dominance.

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Citizen Microsoft

    It's time we stopped acquiescing to the behemoth in Redmond, because what's good for big business isn't necessarily good for Washington.

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    "Microsoft's products are conceived . . . as weapons to be used against competitors rather than effective tools for customers."

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

    A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle's most successful company.

  • News

    September 3, 2003

    Sin City

    The latte tax is just a start. Heres a modest plan to restore fiscal health and improve Seattle.

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    XPerience this!

    Microsoft's a monopoly—but can they really take over the world?

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    I want my P3P?

    Microsoft's new way of packaging privacy leaves some Net observers skeptical.

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    ChatRoom

    Microsoft's privacy czar on Redmond's role.

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    A geek's wireless week

    Disconnecting herself from her PC, our tech writer tries to PalmPilot herself through a typical workweek.

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    From the desk of...

    Disconnecting herself from her PC, our tech writer tries to PalmPilot herself through a typical workweek.

  • News

    May 3, 2000

    An open appeal to Joel Klein

    OK, you bagged Microsoft. Great. Now go after some of these creeps.

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Findings of Fact - U.S.A. vs. Microsoft

    Seattle Weekly's handy guide

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Control freak-alt-delete

    Reading the Findings of Fact as a riveting novel.

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Make Money Fa$$$t!!!

    Signed, Bill G.

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Y2K ready, set, doh!

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products.

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    Full-access feds?

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products.

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Mooning the Giant

    Last summer, Rob Glaser pissed off Bill Gates. Now, Microsoft is doing to RealNetworks what it did to Netscape.

  • News

    March 31, 1999

    Microsoft's New Brain Project

    A prodigy's Redmond isolation lab faces 'outing' over life secrets

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Be careful what you wish for

    Why winning its antitrust battle might destroy Microsoft.

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Joining Sam's Club

    Can Amazon.com and Sidewalk.com remake themselves into Web-Marts?

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    The mouse that roared

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Take two

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

  • News

    April 8, 1998

    Start-ing over

    Microsoft has quietly ditched its new media strategy in favor of a stripped down 'portal' approach.

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    Leading edge

    Microsoft has quietly ditched its new media strategy in favor of a stripped down 'portal' approach.

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