Archive for the ‘Internet Explorer 8’ tag
10 copies of Windows 7 sold every second, 175 Million Licenses Sold!
Less than a month ago, we posted that about 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second with 150 million licenses sold since launch. Recently, Microsoft announced the record fourth-quarter revenue thanks to the strong demand for Windows 7. So, now at around 10 copies of Windows 7 is sold every second with 175 million licenses sold since launch. The company is projected to sell 300 million by the end of 2010.
According to Neowin “Windows 7 is now running on 16% of all PCs around the world and is expected to over-take Windows Vista in market share within the next few weeks. Not only is Windows 7 a huge success, but Microsoft has seen a big uprising of Internet Explorer 8 use, which is still the most popular web browser on the market.”
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 boosts online security for Mashreq’s customers
Microsoft Gulf today announced that Mashreq, one of the leading financial institutions in the region, is promoting Internet Explorer 8 in its effort to help customers protect their personal information online against growing cyber threats and phishing schemes.
Mashreq website has a monthly average of 798, 000 unique visitors generating just about 1.4 million page views per month. According to a recent security report commissioned by Microsoft, cybercrime is increasing and becoming more sophisticated with financial gain as the key motivator. IE 8′s enhanced security features with 24×7 support gives users better control and helps prevent fraudulent activities online.
Nahel.Com opts for Microsoft browser to improve customer experience
Microsoft Gulf today announced that Nahel.com, UAE’s fastest growing online shopping website has opted for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in efforts to further improve its customer’s online shopping experience in the region. Improvement in performance and new features including Instant Search Box, Web Slices, Accelerators, SmartScreen Filter, InPrivate Browsing and Domain Highlighting gives Nahel.com a competitive edge whereby its customers can have a more secure, reliable, faster and richer experience when shopping online.
Nahel.com has customized IE8′s unique feature-’Web Slice’ to include live and up-to-date information for its ‘Deal of the Day’ segment, that gives customers the ability to look for great offers without the need to visit the nahel.com website. Another popular feature of IE8 is ‘Accelerators’ that enable users to quickly look up a particular item without having to visit the actual website – example a user who is reading reviews of a product on any website, can simply highlight the product name, click on the Accelerator icon that appears next to the highlighted text and quickly get the available listings from Nahel.com.
Updated “Microsoft Download Manager” Released!
The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files from the Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using the Download Manager makes it easier to download large files such as an application or multimedia files.
The Download Manager has been specifically designed to manage file downloads from supporting Microsoft Web sites in a secure and reliable way. Once started, the Download Manager displays an easy¬-to-use interface that shows the status of downloads and enables you to resume downloads if they have failed.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 leads way in Browser Security as per latest study from NSS Labs
According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available in the market. The study, which was conducted by security research company, NSS Labs revealed that IE 8 was the most successful browser in blocking various phishing and malware attacks as compared to Apple Safari 4; Firefox 3.5; Google Chrome 4 and Opera 10.
As per the findings, IE 8 caught 85% of live threats and surpassed Apple’s Safari 4 by a 56% margin. Till date, IE 8 has blocked over 350 million online threat attempts since its release in March 2009. In addition, Internet Explorer 8 also holds more than 62.12% of the global browser market share.
Emirates enhances Security, Increases Productivity with Windows 7
Based in Dubai, the Emirates Group is a global travel and tourism company with more than 50 business divisions employing more than 40,000 people. Included in the Emirates Group is Emirates airline, which has witnessed on average 20 percent growth each year since its founding and currently has 143 aircraft in its fleet.
To support its growing operations, the Emirates Group maintains an information technology network composed of more than 21,000 devices, including 16,500 desktop PCs and 2,800 portable computers. The company has been using the Windows XP operating system for its client computing environment, and the Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for its server environment.
The Emirates Group has established a reputation as a leader in innovation—from its state-of-the-art aircraft fleet to its internal technology infrastructure. To maintain that image, the company wanted to upgrade its employees’ computers to a more modern operating system.
Meet Daron Yöndem – Silverlight MVP and Microsoft Regional Director from Turkey
Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period 
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.
Pakistan – Microsoft “Bloggers Day” in Pictures
Microsoft Pakistan recently organized a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi. This event was especially organized for the bloggers community of Pakistan. Here are some pictures from the event.
Microsoft Pakistan Bloggers Day
Microsoft Pakistan is organizing a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This event will be organized especially for the bloggers community of Pakistan by Microsoft. This event will help you in developing a much better understanding of the real world applications for Windows 7 & Internet Explorer 8. Bloggers Day will also be an excellent opportunity to network with other Fellow Bloggers from Industry & the Microsoft Team Members. Following are the event details:
- Date – January 23rd 2010
- Time - 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Location - Microsoft Innovation Center, 1st Floor – FAST National University of Computer and Emerging, Sciences (City Campus), 22-G Block, 6 P.E.C.H.S Karachi.
Internet Explorer 8 – Navigating using Accelerators!
Accelerators are new to Internet Explorer 8 and they are designed to speed up your web browsing experience. You may do this by providing fast access to functions that you’d normally take longer to reach through copying and pasting into other sites. Take for example, an address. Maybe you want to get a map to a specific address. You find the address on a website, you highlight it, copy it, open it up in another website like Google Maps or MapQuest, paste it in there and you catch your map eventually.
