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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Internet Explorer 10 (for Win 7), Firefox bits, and How Google Works

Posted on 8:40 PM by Unknown

News of Microsoft’s release of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 seemed to go off like a flare; lots of noise and brilliance…and then flickering out to nothing.

In my security posture of trying to keep all the web browsers installed on all our home systems current, I went ahead and jumped on IE 10 and installed it almost immediately after release on our Windows 7 systems. 

None of us (well except Alvis with her college portal) regularly use Internet Explorer.

I use still primarily use Firefox for my daily heavy-lifting at home, and supplement it with Chromium (a build version of Chrome).

Alvis prefers the public release version of Chrome…which self-updates BTW…so that is fine by me.

Lavie uses Firefox exclusively….also because of the bookmark sidebar feature.

But I leave Internet Explorer on our systems (for compatibility reasons with some applications and websites).

Anyway, it went on all out systems without much fuss…well, not really on mine. Lessons learned. If you want to manually put it on your system, just make sure of all the links you are offered, the one you are using is to the actual FINAL release installer and not one of the IE 10 “preview” release version installers. In my haste (and trust in the IE Blog post I used) I grabbed a preview version and had to go through a series of additional security updates and IE 10 release upgrades to eventually arrive at a fully updated version of IE 10.  I didn’t make that same mistake with subsequent installs on everyone else’s systems.

  • Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7 - Ars Technica
  • Internet Explorer 10 now available for more than 700M Windows customers - Exploring IE Blog
  • IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses - IEBlog
  • RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 - Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen
  • Bloody well time, Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 - BetaNews
  • Internet Explorer For Windows 7: New Features & Improvements - Addictive Tips
  • IE10 on Windows 7: 5 Essential Facts - Software -Information Week
  • Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (32-bit) - Official Microsoft Download Center
  • Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Edition - Official Microsoft Download Center
  • Download Internet Explorer 10 Language Packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - Official Microsoft Download Center
  • Release Notes - Microsoft
  • Download Internet Explorer 10 - Microsoft Windows - Worldwide installation packs

Meanwhile, these Firefox articles were pretty timely.

  • Prepare Mozilla Firefox for Enterprise Deployment and Virtualization - Aaron Parker
  • The Firefox Extension Guru's Blog links to this How to make Firefox the Fort Knox of browsers - over at Ghacks.

And Google has some great presentations to help you understand how their email and search services work.

  • Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send - Google Official Blog
  • The Story of Send - Google
  • Google Releases Interactive Infographic: "How Search Works" - Search Engine Land
  • How Search Works - Google

Stay informed & Browse safe.

Claus Valca

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