Anith Gopal

Whether you start your holiday shopping on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or right now, here are three tips to help you avoid scams and fraudulent websites when you buy gifts online. This is part one in a three part series, so check back for more tips. And if we missed something, let us know in our comments section below.

Senior attorney for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), Richard Boscovich, appeared on Seattle’s NBC news last week to confirm that Microsoft will not cold call you to fix your computer.

Internet Explorer has an Advanced option named Do not save encrypted pages to disk . By default, this option is unchecked (except for Windows Server systems) and I recommend you leave it that way. In IE9, this option does exactly what it says it does—resources received from HTTPS URLs are not placed in the Temporary Internet Files Cache and temporary files are not created for these resources

Back in the summer of 2009, I blogged about Windows 7’s new support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 . These new protocols are disabled by default, but can be enabled using Group Policy or the Advanced Tab of the Internet Control Panel: Some adventurous Internet Explorer users have found that if they enable these new protocols, some secure sites will fail to load: Upon encountering an error like this, a user might try to see what’s going wrong by enabling Fiddler’s HTTPS Decryption feature and re-visiting the site. When they do that, they find that the site starts working correctly.

  Customers upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 will notice performance improvements, a safer experience that puts the focus on their favorite websites and tweaks to the user interface — changes that help make your websites shine.   T here are three core pillars that represent how we reimagined the role of the browser with Internet Explorer 9 to deliver an experience that makes your web feel as native as the applications running on your PC: ·         Fast: Internet Explorer 9 is all-around fast.

I recently heard from some users who are seeing lower-than-expected scores on the Speed Reading and FishIE Tank benchmarks. I went to check these tests myself and found that my laptop’s score was low

From time-to-time, web developers contact the IE team reporting that they’ve encountered a problem whereby Internet Explorer submits a POST but fails to transmit the content body. This bodyless POST indicates via the Content-Length header that the POST is zero-bytes long, regardless of how much data was supposed to be uploaded

Одна из всем известных проблем веб-разработки, или точнее веб-верстки, – это вопрос совместимости создаваемой или генерируемой верстки, включая разметку на HTML и стили на CSS, и используемых функций (API) на JavaScript в различных версиях различных браузеров.

Along with all the new goodies that we released yesterday as part of Visual Studio 2010, one additional thing we did yesterday as well is release an update to the popular interopforms toolkit.

I am very happy to announce that Visual Studio 2010 is now officially available! The formal announcement can be found on Soma’s blog and you can download VS 2010 from here . Visual Studio 2010 is a great release for C++ developers

I often write small utilities for myself, usually in JScript. For example, I’ve been working with native code where I often need to look at VARIANT values, and I wanted a little utility that would crack down the variant type field into a human-readable value, including the masking values for arrays and such. To build the UI for the utility, I typically use a bit of HTML.