from PC S. .S. Autumn
2009
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"Welcome Autumn!" |
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Greetings, Scott! 
Today is the Autumnal Equinox, the first day of
Autumn.
If you were standing on Earth's equator today, the sun would
appear directly over your head. Earth has 2 equinoxes each year, days
when daylight and darkness hours are approximately equal.
As we welcome Autumn, we also welcome some major changes
in the landscape of PC technology. A new version of
Windows, called Windows
7, is
scheduled to be released next month. Read more about it below.
Additionally, there is a new version of Internet Explorer (IE 8). It is being sent out
by Microsoft as an "Important Update." This affects
all Windows XP and Vista users who use Internet Explorer to browse the
Internet. There is a link below to my website where you can read
my summary about IE8. I recommend that
you get the free upgrade to IE8
ASAP!
Internet Explorer has been around for 14 years, read below to
find a
brief history of IE since 1995.
We still have a few months to reach our goals for 2009.
If your PC is hindering you instead of helping you, contact
me for some FREE PC advice!
Scott A. Goss, PC Specialist
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Internet
Explorer 8 (IE8) |
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The
Internet is a wonderful and dangerous place -
everyone using IE should
upgrade to version 8!
We
use programs called web browsers to view web pages from the Internet. The web
browser reads the contents of a web page and displays it on your PC
screen. The most popular web browser is the one that is included
with Windows, it is called Internet Explorer (IE).
As
Internet dangers evolve, we must change our protection to match these
threats. Your anti-virus program cannot protect your PC from all
of the threats that can come from the Internet. Your browser
must prevent these dangers from coming into your PC from the
Internet. So, we have to continually upgrade our browsers to
get newer and more sofisticated PC protection.
Microsoft
has released the newest version of their web browser called Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). It is being sent out
automatically to all XP and Vista PC's as an "Important
Update". If your PC is configured to install updates
automatically, you might already have installed IE8.
Everyone
should upgrade to IE8!
Besides better PC protection, IE8 contains many new useful features that
make the wonderful world wide web even better.
Contact
me to determine if you have IE8, or how to obtain it for free!
Click
here to learn more about IE 8 at www.PCsosTexas.com
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Windows
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Look Out! Windows 7
will be released next month!
Windows
7 will
be released to the public next month. Sounds like a wild animal
coming out of it's cage, right? Well, don't be afraid. Despite
getting a bad rap from the public, Windows Vista was by far the safest and
most stable version of Windows yet, and Windows 7 will build on that legacy.
Many
people who bought Vista were disaapointed to find out that they couldn't
use their old printers, scanners, cameras or old software with it. We
were told this ahead of time, but it still rubbed people the wrong way.
If
you buy a new PC after the release date, you will be getting Windows 7. You can upgrade your
existing XP or Vista to Windows
7, if
you want the added security that Windows 7
offers. It is reported to be faster than Vista, but not as fast as
XP. For this reason I don't recommend installing Windows 7 on an older PC.
PC
protection is of equal importance to PC performance. Windows 7 will have the best PC
protection to date. One of the chronic complaints about Vista was the
numerous pop-ups that ask your permission to make changes to settings.
These permission pop-ups have been greatly reduced in Windows 7.
The
blessing and bane of Windows is the fact that hundreds of vendors make
hardware and software for Windows, unlike the Apple Mac, where all hardware
and software is made by Apple. This plethora of
products gives us many choices and many compatability
problems. Windows
7
should be more compatible with hardware and software than Vista, but not as
compatible as XP.
Windows
XP is 8 year old technology. That doesn't mean it is technology for 8
year olds, but that it is outdated as far as today's technology is
concerned. As vendors update their PC products to work with Windows
Vista and Windows
7,
soon their new products will no longer be compatible with Windows XP.
Look
out! Here comes Windows 7!
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Computor
Tutor "A Brief History of
IE" |
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Internet Explorer is the most popular program used to browse the World Wide
Web. It has been in use for 14 years! Here is a timeline of
each version of IE, from version 1 in 1995 to Version 8 in 2009.
Internet Explorer version 1 (IE1) - August 1995 - it was replaced
3 months later!
IE2 - November
1995
IE 3 - August
1996 - The Internet Explorer team consisted of roughly 100 people during
the development of three months. The first major IE security hole, the
Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole, was discovered the same month in IE3.
IE4 - September
1997 - This version was also included with the new Windows 98.
IE5
- March
1999 - The IE team consisted of over 1,000 people in 1999, with
funding on the order of $100 million per year.
IE6
- August
2001 - Released a few months before Windows XP. This version
survived the longest and was the first version used by most people as
Internet use skyrocketed during this period.
IE7 - October
2006 - Featured tabbed browsing, a multiple-engine search box, a web
feeds reader, and anti-phishing filter. Included in Windows Vista,
which was later released in Jan. 2007.
IE8 - March
2009 - Supported by Windows XP and Windows Vista. It
features Accelerators - which allow supported web
applications to be invoked without explicitly navigating to them - and WebSlices - which allows portions of
page to be subscribed to and monitored from a redesigned Favorites Bar. Other features include InPrivate privacy features, and
a SmartScreen phishing filter.
As of May 2009, here are the percentages of PC browser
usage:
Internet Explorer (IE) - 66%
Mozilla Firefox - 23%
Apple Safari, Netscape
Navigator, Google Chrome and others - 11%
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