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Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing
TheGift73 writes in with this link about IE 9 coming to an Xbox 360 near you. "Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this functionality to open up a full browser for the console. We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms."
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." Does that include YouTube for example? As far as I remember you have to be a XBox Live Gold Member to use the YouTube application...
Xbox, open Brazzers.
Thank you, Microsoft.
Ask and you shall receive: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ie9-chrome10-safari5-opera11-browser-security-phishing-spam,news-11880.html
NSS said that “Internet Explorer 9 was by far the best at protecting against socially-engineered malware
Meaning what? Malware that you need to activate yourself because you're a moron?
I'm not a Sony fan, but didn't the PS3 come stock with a web browser? I always assumed the 360 did as well. Really MS? It took you this long to put a browser on it?
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Only now they're adding a web browser to their console?
Dreamcast: been there, done that, back in friggin' 1999.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I hope it lets me use Bing search. Having Bing search on my TV in my living room would be a dream come true.
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Yes; from the NSS labs report: "Recent studies show that users are four times more likely to be tricked into downloading malware than be compromised by an exploit ." and " Note: This study does not evaluate browser security related to vulnerabilities in plug -ins or the browsers themselves.".
Seems quite a stretch to claim IE9 is the "safest web browser" based on a report that specifically does not test browser or plug-in vulnerabilities, even if PEBKAC vulnerabilities are more prevalent, although maybe the poster who claimed that had some other source.
Oh no... it's the future.
surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms
Except CronoCloud and several other users keep telling me that statistically nobody wants to do that. Therefore, publishers tend not to cater to the HTPC market.
I love when they compare the newest version of IE to 7 full versions previous of Firefox. It always makes for such an objective comparison.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
I want it via a genuine Microsoft product. Only then will I get the full Bing experience.
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