Microsoft is introducing a feature to Internet Explorer 9 that gives users control over how sites can and cannot track their activity. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

The day has finally arrived: Microsoft has killed off Internet Explorer. Or has it? The answer to that is: well, sort of. Microsoft has said for years that it plans to replace the venerable Internet ...

It's the end of an era. With a hint of sadness and a tinge of nostalgia, today we mark the official retirement of Internet Explorer. First launched on August 16, 1995, Microsoft's go-to web browser ...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 launches tonight at 9 p.m. Pacific, accompanied by a celebratory bash at the South-by-Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. The hoopla might be appropriate, because ...

On March 14, six months after Microsoft released the first full-blown beta version of Internet Explorer 9, it made the final version of its new Web browser available for download. The company ...

Thanks to corporate use and ties to Windows, Internet Explorer has remained dominant in the browser space ever since it won the first browser wars with Netscape a decade ago. However, by allowing the ...

Did you feel that? Microsoft has shifted its Internet Explorer development team into higher gear and dropped another rev of the IE 9 beta, this one called Platform Preview Version 6 and touting “next ...

It's already been announced that Microsoft will be supporting HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9. Now the company has confirmed that the codec it will be supporting is H.264. That's bad news for ...

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is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Internet Explorer is dead. Microsoft is retiring IE today after nearly 27 ...