On May 24, Microsoft will unveil what it calls the next major release of Windows Phone. Many believe this is the Mango update, and there’s speculation that it may be called Windows Phone 7.5 since so many features will be added.
We already know that the browser will be replaced with Internet Explorer 9 and will support HTML 5. In April, we were shown video depicting IE9 rendering HTML 5 twice as fast as Android currently does and multiple times faster than the iPhone 4 can.
The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security.
The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems
Here is the original announcement in German.
The French government has issued a similar warning.
[Good move by Germany and France.]
The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month’s attack on Google’s corporate networks is now public.
The code was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site, making it publicly available. By Friday, it had been included in at least one publicly available hacking tool and could be seen in online attacks, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee.
[Yet another reason not to use IE and Windows.]
After an 11-month legal face-off, Microsoft and European antitrust officials yesterday signed off on the ballot screen concept that will give Windows users a chance to download rivals’ browsers.
It was a hard and winding road.
Ever since European regulators slapped Microsoft with antitrust charges in January 2009, forcing the company to provide a so-called “ballot screen” to users has been the EU’s strategy. Microsoft, however, resisted fiercely, going so far as to temporarily dump Internet Explorer (IE) from Windows 7, in the hope that the move would appease the people in Brussels.
It didn’t. So after what the European Commission called “extensive discussions,” Microsoft caved yet again, putting forward a proposal that many of its competitors saw as flawed at best, self-serving at worst. That proposal went through two more drafts before the EU was satisfied.
But now that the battle’s over and the ink has dried, how will the ballot screen work? That’s what we’re here to answer.
A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim’s computer.
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