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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and 9 Web browsers demonstrated better protection against socially engineered exploits than other browsers, as described in a September NSS Labs report.

'Streaming result

Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications.

The Wall Street Journal has a story detailing how Microsoft developers had worked out a plan to add serious privacy capabilities to Internet Explorer 8, which would specifically be designed to try to block tracking efforts by advertisers.

The default would recognize if a third-party service/cookie/script appeared on more than 10 visited websites and would then assume that was a tracking device of sorts.

The idea was to make this the default and make it easy for users to control their privacy settings.

Microsoft is preparing a security update in June for the IE XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8.

It’s official: Microsoft got it right this time.

Computerworld: "Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to Chrome, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year."

If you already use Internet Explorer but haven’t upgraded to the latest version yet, there are

Time flies fast, and new browsers replace old ones.

Microsoft has experienced mixed results with its ad campaigns.