Virtual Conversion Virtually Ugly

Curiosity got the best of me last night. A month or so ago I mentioned that Microsoft was encouraging virtualization as a way to test with IE6. In that same article I wondered about converting the free Virtual PC image to VMware format…

So I decided to try.

The conversion was painless, if a bit

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A Twist on Running IE6 and IE7 on a Single Machine

I just finished reading an article on the IEBlog titled, “IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine.” Now here’s a fascinating twist on how to run both browsers on the same machine. This isn’t the usual way to accomplish it. Instead, they trot out the “virtualization” method (again). But

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Stumbling with IE

I just saw an article over at the IEBlog mentioning that there’s now an IE plugin for StumbleUpon. If you haven’t played with StumbleUpon, you should. If you use IE7, you should get the toolbar (the Firefox one has been available for quite some time, I think).

I’m still digging IE7 (shock/gasp/horror!) and I

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Vroom

Browser Speed Comparisons article. Finally, I can go beyond saying, “gee, Opera seems faster…”

Are you still using Internet Explorer? New Exploit

Another round of ugly exploits targetting the Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft put a security bulletin up late last week: Vulnerability in the way HTML Objects Handle Unexpected Method Calls Could Allow Remote Code Execution.

Microsoft has confirmed new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Based on our investigation, this vulnerability could

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