Microsoft unveils "desktop-grade" Internet Explorer Mobile
Looking to get back to flexing its mobile browsing muscle in the esteemed company of heavy-hitting players like Opera, S60, and the iPhone, Microsoft has announced a new version of Internet Explorer Mobile that promises a "desktop-grade" browsing experience on Windows Mobile-powered handsets. Central to the new version's power is its support for the trifecta of H.264 video, Flash (ahh, so that's why they licensed it!), and Microsoft's own Silverlight, giving a significant fraction of media-heavy sites a fighting chance of running normally on the small screen. It'll all be available to Windows Mobile licensees starting in the third quarter of this year, with the first devices expected at retail before the year's out -- just in time to do some serious battle with Firefox.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian @ Apr 1st 2008 3:37PM
"Desktop grade" .... does that mean we will now have the ability to download virus and malware ?
kastonie @ Apr 1st 2008 3:58PM
your avatar makes this comment even that much more better
Fernando @ Apr 1st 2008 4:00PM
I downloaded a myphotos.exe the other day on my N95, so almost every phone (excluding iphone) can download a virus/malware. Now installing is another matter...
RBRT @ Apr 1st 2008 3:59PM
They should work on a desktop grade Internet Explorer Desktop first
zing
Brian @ Apr 1st 2008 4:23PM
Bum ... why is your so much funnier than mine....
Maurice @ Apr 3rd 2008 9:33AM
Oh snap.
Son.
slamEVIL @ Apr 1st 2008 4:18PM
i wonder which will come first: this, opera 9.5 on torrent, or my friggin' skyfire beta sms.
PSM @ Apr 1st 2008 4:33PM
Yeah whatever happened to Skyfire? I've given up waiting for my SMS. The Opera file floating around the nets is really cool, but not at all ready for release, or even beta. Buggy as hell, but already I can't stand to use anything else.
STNC @ Apr 10th 2008 11:18AM
Tell me about the skyfire beta, I'm still waiting too, I got an email, but it was a false alarm. But when will we see this amazing "Internet Explorer" Browser?
Gobias @ Apr 1st 2008 4:42PM
And by mobile, I'm sure they only mean: WM6.1. Due to of course, some terrible complicated specifications that only WM6.1 alleviates.
But hey, I'm not bitter or anything. It's not like everybody has dropped support for WM2003SE. and its not like I can't upgrade my sweet and totally capable Axim X30H to WM6.1.
I mean come on!
JAmerican @ Apr 1st 2008 4:46PM
This is definitely an April Fools joke. I'll wait for the release before I believe it. Remember Live Anywhere. That project went vaporware real quick. I'm still waiting to get achievements on my Dash >:(
WiiTodd @ Apr 1st 2008 6:25PM
Oh man, I am taking every one of our 12 phones from Verizon to another company if we don't get this update.
AT&T, Sprint and Alltel are mentioned in ALL these articles. Verizon better get their name listed with this update... my i760 needs love too!
elgee02 @ Apr 2nd 2008 7:00PM
This upgrade is NOT carrier specific. Once it comes out (God only knows when) it will be available for ALL phones that use IE.
Sam Winter @ Apr 1st 2008 8:43PM
Oh I'm sure we all can't wait for that... Internet explorer 6.0-like on mobile. No standards support, all types of exploits, etc. M$ should seriously just license Opera or hire a 3rd party to make a Webkit based browser. They should do the same with desktop IE. Just toss out the IE render engine completely and use Gecko or Webkit around a custom IE wrapper.
Ethan @ Apr 1st 2008 9:45PM
If IE6 didn't suck so much, then Firefox would never have gotten off the ground. Microsoft should continue to improve upon Internet Explorer. The worst thing that'll happen is more people will switch to Firefox and it'll get even better.
Derk @ Apr 2nd 2008 2:49AM
hum...I already gave up on MS mobile. I'm now a iphone user.