It could be called a battle between Big Brother and Bill Gates. A single change in Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has sparked a complex behind-the-scenes battle over your privacy.

When downloading files, especially larger ones that take a long time to download, a download occasionally fails or you may need to pause it. In Internet Explorer, you can easily restart a download to ...

Once upon a time, when Microsoft and Netscape were slugging it out for Internet supremacy, the release of a new version of either company's Web browser was a big deal. Those releases came fast and ...

Microsoft's market-leading browser isn't as safe as Firefox or Opera, but you can enhance your security by updating IE regularly. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor ...

Microsoft today released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and made it available for free download at the Internet Explorer 7 site. IE7 is a significant upgrade to IE6. It offers ...

In an unexpected development, it seems that many users just can’t let Internet Explorer go. Although the browser is retiring, new research shows that up to 47% of Windows 10 devices still use Explorer ...

Microsoft has announced it will continue end-of-life updates in 2023 for its former browser, Internet Explorer, for older Windows versions. Despite having ceased IE support on the current Windows 11 ...

Does your Internet Explorer not display the Download Manager window when you click the View Downloads button on the download notification bar or when you press CTRL+J to bring it up? If so, it is ...

Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture. As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to ...

At, times, when you try to download a file from the Internet, your Internet Explorer or Ege Legacy browser, may stop it from being downloaded. This is the SmartScreen Filter in action, trying to ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Internet Explorer is dead. Microsoft is retiring IE today after nearly 27 years.