W3C Archives - Safe Surfing https://blog.theproxyfree.com/tag/w3c/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:34:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 62892091 Silent update of IE from January 2012 https://blog.theproxyfree.com/silent-update-of-ie-from-january-2012/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:57:40 +0000 http://blog.theproxyfree.com/?p=91 Finally, Micro$oft knows how to do a silent update for your IE browser. Maybe just learned from Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Silent update of IE from January 2012Anyway, this is a smart move to stop or at least to slow down the loss of market share (to Chrome and Firefox). M$ won the browser war against Netscape by bundling IE to Windows since Windows 95. But is has been a  loser in the same battlefield against Firefox, nor against Chrome.

Security, speed, and W3C standard are the major reasons tech geeks abandon IE. IE 8 and IE 9 did have some improvement in security and speed. But the compliance with standards is still not as good as Chrome or Firefox.

So, M$ silently updates the IE browser for most users; a lot of users will not know because they already switched to other better browsers.… Read the rest

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