Microsoft's new support policy for Internet Explorer, announced all the way back in 2014, kicks in today. From now on, Microsoft will only support the newest version of Internet Explorer on each ...

Newer Windows operating systems exist, but many people still use Windows XP Pro successfully to help them work. Although Microsoft support for Windows XP ends in 2014, you can still use it after that ...

Windows XP users are getting their first taste of life without security updates after the discovery of a major flaw within the Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft Corp. issued a warning regarding ...

Despite the fix, Hall again stressed XP users must update. "Just because this update is out now doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about getting off Windows XP and moving to a newer version of ...

It’s rare that a company celebrates when one of its products bites the dust, but that’s what Microsoft just did with the news that Internet Explorer 6 is essentially dead in the U.S. with less than 1% ...

For Microsoft, backward compatibility is a tremendous competitive advantage. It's also a support nightmare, not just for the engineers who have to deliver patches but for third-party developers and ...

Per its year-old policy on supporting browsers, Google will discontinue support for IE8 when version 10 ships in November. Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after ...

If there was a day to be joyful for the end of software builds, today is that day. Both Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 have officially been dumped by Microsoft. What's this mean for you, the user ...

You’ve heard of Christmas in July. Well how about spring cleaning in January? Microsoft is kicking off 2016 with arguably its most significant Patch Tuesday in ...

A quarter of Windows users are running outdated versions of Internet Explorer, potentially allowing criminals to compromise machines with malware, banking trojans and ransomware. According to security ...

A broad-brush look at the recent history of the web browser goes like this: after its victory over Netscape at the end of the 1990s, Microsoft failed to push forward with the development of Internet ...

Internet Explorer 8 is the version that comes pre-installed with every Windows 7 operating system. Since the release of Windows 7, compatible versions of IE 9 and 10 have also been released and are ...