Windows Media Player 12 & Internet Explorer 8 Beta

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Windows Media Player 12 & Internet Explorer 8 Beta

Windows Media Player 12 Release 2008

Windows
Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application
developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images
on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as
on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player
were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has
since been discontinued.

Activities

Activities
are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users
typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8
Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities typically
involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send"
web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a
restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up"
Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the
map using his favorite map service.

An example of a "send" Activity is a
user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the
article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog
Activity. This navigates to the user?s blog site with the selection already
available in the edit field.

Activities are services that the user can
install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service
Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
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WebSlices

WebSlices is a new feature for websites to
connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage.
WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and
notify the user of changes.

Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover
WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row
below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes
to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of
updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and
click-through to the website to get more information.
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Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar
provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has
undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the
Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily
access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even
Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

A user can easily add a link to the
Favorites bar by using the Add to Favorites button and selecting the Add to
Favorites Bar option.

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Automatic Crash
Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of
Windows?Internet Explorer? 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and
productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR
feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to
provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will
minimize interruptions to users? browsing sessions.

See Automatic
Crash Recovery white paper for more information.

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Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the
Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing
site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing
the user?s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are
building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature
called the "Safety Filter."

The Safety Filter continues to block known
Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that
could harm users? computer or steal their information. Beyond this improved
protection, the Safety Filter operates more quickly than ever before to ensure
that users can browse both safely and quickly.

For IT administrators, new
Group Policy options are available to remove the user-override option and fully
block access to known unsafe sites.