Welcome to Collaborative Strategy Guild Where insights are transformed into actions at the intersection of collaboration, information management, security, and business strategy.
|
Excerpt from an update by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer
Many of us share the goal of a more powerful, native, and robust Web. We want actual progress, not just iteration and activity, toward that goal.
The Web makes progress when
- developers can take advantage of new technology
- to build sites that feel and run more like native applications than Web pages
- across production-quality browsers
- using the same markup consistently.
Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview… Continue reading: Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
From a Walt Mossberg interview with Microsoft’s IE lead; check the full interview for a timely privacy reality check. My $.02: we’ll know Microsoft is serious about browser privacy if it includes a persistent in-private/anti-tracking browsing mode in IE9 – unlike the wimp-out in IE8, which was a per-session setting, and thus unlikely to be widely used; double bonus good-will points if the anti-tracking mode is the default in IE9
WALT: Okay, that was a nice ad. But please talk about reports that you’ve been eclipsed in Europe by Firefox.
DEAN: Yes, we used to have 90 percent market share back in the ’90s. But now we look at how many people choose… Continue reading: Microsoft Internet Explorer Boss Dean Hachamovitch Talks Broswers at CES | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
So… hopefully a persistent option setting
The new feature, called Tracking Protection, would rely on lists that users create that indicate which sites they do not want to share information with. Lists can be created by individuals or by organizations, like consumer advocacy groups, which can make their lists available for anyone to use.
Once enabled, the tracking protection would exist for all Web pages the user visits and would take effect each time they start a new browsing session. The mechanism would identify and block third parties from collecting data through cookies and other mechanisms that track users.
Microsoft Introduces Tracking Protection to Its Browser – NYTimes.com
… Continue reading: Microsoft Introduces Tracking Protection to Its Browser – NYTimes.com
Hopefully this won’t be like the InPrivate Filtering feature in IE8, which is opt-in on a per-session basis (and thus essentially useless to most people). Check this IE blog post for more details on the new Tracking Protection capabilities planned for IE9.
Microsoft Corp. is adding features to its Internet Explorer browser that let users create “Do Not Call’’ lists for the Internet.
Internet Explorer 9 will bar listed websites from tracking what users do on the Web, said Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft vice president. The controls also limit what content blocked sites can display to users.
Microsoft offers no-tracking feature – The Boston Globe
… Continue reading: Microsoft offers no-tracking feature – The Boston Globe
IE9 beta expected today
In an interview, Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft corporate vice president in charge of Internet Explorer, says the company’s new browser, also known as IE9, is the first program to use "the whole PC to browse" the Web and will lead to sites reimagining how they’re designed. Microsoft has worked with Amazon.com Inc. on a demonstration site that lets consumers search for books on a given topic, quickly populating a virtual bookshelf with images of book covers.
"It’s very different than getting a bunch of links back," Mr. Hachamovitch said.
Browsers Get a Face-Lift – WSJ.com
Continue reading: Browsers Get a Face-Lift – WSJ.com
|
|
