IE 9 Coming on Monday for Win 7 and Vista computers

This week Microsoft timed the release of Internet Explorer 9 to occur during the South by Southwest tech gathering in Texas that starts this weekend. IE 9's main advantage is support for HTML 5 which is a new standard for programmers and designers to create more robust user experiences graphically without tools like Flash and other "plug-ins".

IE 9 will only be deployed for Window's Vista and Window's 7 computers. There is no planned support for Windows XP. Probably because XP itself has a final end of support date of August 2014.

Because of the Javascript engines in the 32 bit version being newer than released in the 64 bit version the 32 bit version appears to be faster even on 64 bit versions of Windows until the Chakra Javascript engine is updated. The 32 bit version is benchmarking faster than Chrome or Firefox current releases based on the anecdotal data in the market.

Get ready.. it's coming Monday.

Commerce Lexington Data Security Event

CEO Russ Hensley is getting ready for a data security presentation at Commerce Lexington this afternoon. He's also got an announcement that will be released at that event.

The New Media Ringmaster

The Computer Place received it's December copy of The Harvard Business Review today. I was only semi-surprised to see Social Media Branding on the cover. There are 3 great articles but one peaked my interest the most. Patrick Spenner's "Why you need a New-Media Ringmaster" brings three key attributes of a ring master into play: Lean Collaboration Skills, Integrative Thinking and High Speed. I completely agree. I would post a link to the article, but it's not on-line yet. Get a hard copy and read this one yourself if you're in the social media space.

Fraud Prevention

Tonight's post in our series relates specifically to Fraud Prevention. To understand those we need to talk about the following areas exploited by criminals to gain your identity: phishing and email scams, spam, passwords, and shopping. Click on this link: Microsoft Computer Security and the Fraud Prevention tab learn about these specific topics in greater detail.