In a Windows first, Microsoft has confirmed you’ll be able to remove Internet Explorer and other previously integrated programs from the Windows 7 operating system. Internet Explorer 8 will be one of ...

Microsoft Windows users have been warned to urgently apply this month’s update, after a new attack was found in the wild targeting Windows 10 and Windows 11. An alarming new report warns that this the ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will remove IE from European copies of Windows 7. This, it hopes, will resolve the ongoing problems it has had with the European Union’s European Commission on the ...

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 ...

With images of countless blue screens still haunting the headlines, it’s all too easy to forget that while July’s Windows outage was down to CrowdStrike rather than Microsoft, there have been actual ...

Microsoft has announced the deprecation of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen in Internet Explorer (IE) and IE Mode on Windows 11 with the latest Windows update. It said that this is part of its ongoing ...

With around three months until standalone Internet Explorer is officially retired on Windows, Microsoft has outlined a few key improvements it's made to IE mode in Edge. Microsoft announced last May ...

Microsoft announced today that a future Microsoft Edge update would permanently disable the Internet Explorer 11 desktop web browser on some Windows 10 systems in February. This comes after a previous ...

IE 7 will run only on Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) when it releases in beta form shortly, Microsoft IE program manager Chris Wilson wrote on the Internet Explorer Weblog. One reason: "some of the ...

Microsoft on Thursday said in a security bulletin that it will release the updates, most of which require users restart their system, on Tuesday, February 8. Microsoft typically updates the security ...

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 ...