Tag archive: Dean Hachamovitch

Internet Explorer 6 is out of date. There’s no question of that, as Microsoft has now moved on to IE8. It has its critics, some of whom have even campaigned online against it. But some 15-20% of people still use IE6 as their browser, according to figures. And Microsoft is standing by it. The company has said it will continue support for it until 2014. But it evidently wasn’t an easy decision, even for staff, as Amy Barzdukas,… Read More

If you’ve been holding your breath for the release Internet Explorer 8, stop right now. Microsoft has announced that it won’t be out this year after all. The company has opted for another round of testing – known as a “release candidate” version – early in 2009. In a blog posting, general manager Dean Hachamovitch wrote: "Our next public release of IE (typically called a 'release… Read More

After over a year and a half, IE7 has been released to the public as of Monday afternoon.  Download it directly from: http://www.microsoft.com/ie.  Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog: Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE, wrote a blog post outlining their ups and downs while creating IE7.  "The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and… Read More

“On Microsoft's IE group blog, company officials acknowledged they had received some requests for an IE refresh for older versions of Windows, including Windows 2000. The response? “Right now, we're focused on XP SP2. We're actively listening to our major Windows 2000 customers about what they want and comparing that to the engineering and logistical complexity of that work,” posted Dean Hachamovitch, the… Read More