IE8 brings more privacy

Program Manager Andy Zeigler writes in blog about new privacy features in IE8.

Major improvements are:

* InPrivate™ Browsing lets you control whether or not IE saves your browsing history, cookies, and other data
* Delete Browsing History helps you control your browsing history after you’ve visited websites.
* InPrivate™ Blocking informs you about content that is in a position to observe your browsing history, and allows you to block it

* InPrivate Subscriptions allow you to augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing to lists of websites to block or allow.

Problems with latest IE security update

Microsoft has get reports of users that have had problems using Internet Explorer after last week IE security update.

Some told that they have problems accessing web sites and others said that IE won't open at all.

Reports started to come almost immediately after MS07-069 update release a week ago.

Problems seem to affect both IE 6 and IE7 as well as both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Microsoft has released a temporary solution.

Source: PC World, Microsoft