{"id":606,"date":"2009-07-19T16:57:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/07\/19\/microsoft-to-change-default-browser-setting-option-in-ie-8.aspx"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:57:53","slug":"microsoft-to-change-default-browser-setting-option-in-ie-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another move which may or may not be part of its ongoing attempts to appease European antitrust authorities, Microsoft is changing the way Internet Explorer (IE) 8 will prompt users about making IE their default browser.<\/p>\n<p>According to a July 16 post to the Internet Explorer blog, Microsoft is changing the way IE 8 prompts users during browser installation. The change will take effect in mid-August and will only be pertinent to users for whom IE is not set as their default browser. From that post:<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3396\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3396\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3396<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another move which may or may not be part of its ongoing attempts to appease European antitrust authorities, Microsoft is changing the way Internet Explorer (IE) 8 will prompt users about making IE their default browser. According to a July 16 post to the Internet Explorer blog, Microsoft is changing the way IE 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}