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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and Reliability Improvements

There was a post recently on the MSDN blogs about reliability and IE8. In particular, how IE8 will be much more reliable than previous versions.

There has been great improvements in IE8 in regards to performance, display and recovery. These three areas will now be much more solid than in past versions. Some of the new features in IE8:

  • Loosely-Coupled IE: An architectural feature that helps isolate different parts of the browser from each other for smoother browsing performance.
  • Automatic Crash Recovery: A feature that is designed to get users back to browsing as quickly as possible after a crash.
  • Windows Error Reporting: A way for our customers to provide us with information to improve the reliability of Internet Explorer.

You can read the full technical details in the MSDN blog post, but basically the focus is on improved speed and simpler recovery from crashes. A browser crash and recovery will be smoother and faster. There should also be less crashing due to the loosely-coupled IE.

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Microsoft Offering Free Tech Support for Vista

To help boost confidence for Vista, Microsoft recently announced that it would offer free technical support to small businesses that purchase Vista in the next three months. They are hoping that this move will push many weary business owners into the Vista upgrade.

On top of this, Microsoft has also offered to help those users downgrade from Vista to XP, if they are not satisfied with Vista.

This offer is called “Windows Vista Small Business Assurance”. If you want to take advantage of this offer, it is available to small businesses with less than 50 employees or 25 PCs.  This is also only available to small businesses purchasing new hardware, it doesn’t apply to upgrading existing computers from XP to Vista.

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