Microsoft showed a preview for the next big Windows Phone 7 update called “Mango”. The new upgdate brings Internet Explorer 9 to your mobile phone. Impressive fast!
More information on the coming Windows Phone 7 update can you get here.
Yesterday Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
I worked with the beta and the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9 and I think its a huge difference between IE8 and IE9. Internet Explorer 9 feels much faster as the previous versions of Internet Explorer and even some competitors.
I think this are the best features and of Internet Explorer 9
This makes Websites feeling more like real desktop applications, and I don’t think other browsers can do that.
You can get more informations and some examples about IE9 here
You can download IE9 here
After I installed a Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) test environment and created a new Site Collection, I tried to logon on to a new Site Collection. But the login didnt work. After I spend some hours checking the whole configuration of IIS7 and AD on a Windows Server 2008 I finally found the problem and the solution here:
http://ppalakollu.blogspot.com/2009/04/ie-8-ntlm-authentication-on-windows.html
If you are using host headers to resolve the websites, then you might have seen the following issue with NTLM authenticated sites on IE 8. When you access the websites on a machine other than the one where it is hosted, you will be able to get to the sites.
Once you RDP onto the server and try to connect to the website, it will prompt for your windows credentials and will get an access denied message. This problem occurs because Windows includes a loopback check security feature that helps prevent reflection attacks on your computer(Probably some kind of security change has been made in IE8 related to this feature). Therefore, authentication fails if the FQDN or the custom host header that you use does not match the local computer name.Resolution: Disable the loopback check
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa- Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
- Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
- Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
- In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.