by Surur
4 months
Chinese security company Qihoo 360 has discovered a new form of malware currently in the wild which is actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer to install a backdoor trojan on the PC of Windows users. Users do not...
by Greg Jordan
8 months
According to analytics vendor NetApplications, Microsoft ended 2017 a bit worse than it came into the year, with a combined IE + Edge market of 16.97%, down from 18% it came into the year with. Microsoft has been having trouble re...
1 year
Adobe is finally killing Flash. Flash was once known as a revolutionary web technology, but it’s now known for security loopholes. Most modern web browsers already make it fairly difficult to run Flash content on websites, but F...
by Greg Jordan
1 year
Microsoft has been very busy this year, with the release of the insanely expensive Surface Laptop and its new Windows 10 S OS, the recently revealed Cortana Invoke speaker, the Windows 10 Home Hub, and more. In the midst of all o...
by Pradeep
1 year
Microsoft has already announced that VBScript should be considered deprecated and should no longer be used as a scripting language for IE11. VBScript will not be executed for web pages displayed in IE11 mode. However, to ensure co...
by Greg Jordan
2 years
Despite a slight increase in market share for it’s latest operating system, Microsoft can’t seem to replicate that level of success with it’s Edge browser. Despite browser improvements with the release of Windows...
by Sean Chan
2 years
In a blog post yesterday, the Microsoft Edge Team detailed an upcoming change coming to Edge and Internet Explorer. Both of the company’s browsers will start blocking access to SHA-1 encrypted sites early next year — o...
by Pradeep
2 years
Till now, the Microsoft Update Catalog website worked only on Internet Explorer browser because of its ActiveX requirement. Now, Microsoft has removed the ActiveX control requirement that kept the site from being used by browsers ...
by Pradeep
2 years
Microsoft today announced that they are expanding the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking feature to include outdated versions of Adobe Flash Player starting on October 11, 2016. When someone tries to load a website with Flash Ac...
by Greg Jordan
2 years
Microsoft’s Edge browser has gained many new features with the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, including extension support, support for notifications, swipe to navigate, and much more. But it seems even the new...
by Sean Chan
2 years
NetMarketShare today published its report for August 2016. The latest report is pretty similar to the recent reports, which shows growth for Windows 10. Last month, we reported that Windows 10 had a market share of 21.13% in 1 yea...
by Pradeep
2 years
Last year, Microsoft announced their decision to end the support of the RC4 cipher in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in early 2016. Back in April, they said that this change will be released as part of April’s cumulativ...