You know, I love a challenge, but the whole idea of a challenge is that there should be the possibility of success at the end of our efforts. The hardware at the place where I work is *old* .. seriously old. I’m talking Windows 95 with IE3… boxes with 16 and 32 meg of RAM. […]
The latest blog entry from the IE team makes for interesting reading. IEBlog : IE December Security Update – addressing scattered reports of odd browser behavior:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/16/504864.aspx What can I say apart from “TOLD YA SO”. An MVP came to me the other week, asking for information about a “workaround” that he heard could be used […]
I am at my holiday unit north of Perth to train the new complex manager on how to use Outlook Web Access. I love it up here; there is no phone line (no airconditioning either, but we live with that), no computers apart from my laptop, no fax machines, no stress. Sealions, dolphins, fishing, only […]
Microsoft have released the December Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-054.mspx It is important that you read the information about ‘known issues’ (aka problems) that may occur after you install the update:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905915 One issue that I would like to highlight is the ActiveX changes. This has been seen to cause some seemingly unrelated effects such as […]
First quarter of 2006:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/06/500599.aspx
I think that I am as ‘wired’, if not more ‘wired’ than anybody I know. But is that necessarily a good thing? The Christmas season is fast approaching, and the Christmas greeting cards have started arriving at my home. The traditional English habit of writing (sorry, lets use the modern terminology … typing) a long […]
Back on October 9 I reported in this blog that the EOLAS patent was rearing its ugly head again:http://msmvps.com/spywaresucks/archive/2005/10/09/69848.aspx Back then I said I didn’t know what the end result of the resurrection would be. Well, now we know. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ “After a forthcoming update, Microsoft Internet Explorer users will not be able to directly […]