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IE Mobile 6 cooked into custom ROM for HTC Touch HD
While Microsoft won't be handing it out as an update for your WinMo 6 device, ROM cookers are making Internet Explorer Mobile 6 available now. Paul over at MoDaCo has built a custom ROM for the HTC Touch HD that includes IE Mobile 6 -- that's "6 on 6" as they say. Unfortunately, it's only available as a ROM update, not as an invdividual application installer. If you recall, Microsoft said that IE Mobile 6 won't be offered for download, because "the rich media experiences that IE Mobile 6 enables require more powerful, advanced devices." Perhaps in salty salute, Paul's ROM also sets the default explorer search engine to Google. Instructions and tales of caution just beyond the read link. [Via GadgetMix]
Shots of Microsoft's Internet Explorer "6 on 6" emerge, Deepfish gets canned
Microsoft revealed that it was working on pumping some much-needed TLC into Internet Explorer Mobile back in April, and now we're finally starting to see some fruits of that labor -- nothing we can touch and play with just yet, but hey, a few honest-to-goodness screen shots are a solid start. Internet Explorer 6 on Windows Mobile 6.1 -- "6 on 6" as it's cleverly being billed -- features both desktop and mobile browsing modes, and more importantly, it looks like it might actually be packing enough horsepower to handle the content being returned to it in desktop mode. We don't know when 6 on 6 will start shipping on devices (or, even better, be available as an upgrade for current handsets), but considering that virtually every WinMo user loads Opera out of the box, it couldn't come soon enough for Microsoft.In fact, the impetus to get 6 on 6 out the door has taken on an even more urgent undertone, with Microsoft's promising research project Deepfish getting retired at the end of the month. Actually, maybe it won't be retired after all; Microsoft's official Deepfish page says it goes away on September 31, 2008, which -- as best as we can tell from our old-fashioned calendar here, anyway -- doesn't exist.[Via Smartphone Thoughts]Read - 6 on 6 screen shotsRead - Microsoft Deepfish official site
Microsoft unveils "desktop-grade" Internet Explorer Mobile
Looking to get back to flexing its mobile browsing muscle in the esteemed company of heavy-hitting players like Opera, S60, and the iPhone, Microsoft has announced a new version of Internet Explorer Mobile that promises a "desktop-grade" browsing experience on Windows Mobile-powered handsets. Central to the new version's power is its support for the trifecta of H.264 video, Flash (ahh, so that's why they licensed it!), and Microsoft's own Silverlight, giving a significant fraction of media-heavy sites a fighting chance of running normally on the small screen. It'll all be available to Windows Mobile licensees starting in the third quarter of this year, with the first devices expected at retail before the year's out -- just in time to do some serious battle with Firefox.
