Haven't they been marketing that story with each new release of IE. I could safely hold my breath waiting for the first exploit to be posted

This story is going to get so many comments posted to it it'll seem like a DDOS attack I'll be fun reading them though

DOM/ Javascript, the underpinnings of 'Web 2.0', become legacy . . . ?

I don't think I'll be going near this browser. Every time I see a Gazelle, there is usually a bunch of Lions chewing on it!

*Mine's the one with "Game Warden" printed on the pocket!

>Microsoft has developed a browser whose security it says beats many of today's generation of browsers, including Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome.

Isn't this the equivalent of marketing a fireproof suit saying its less flammable than gunpowder?

How 'bout telling me its "absolutely secure", or "more secure than any known browser" or something along those lines? Comparing yourself to the runt of the litter is a bit counterproductive.

Yep, if Microsoft say its secure it must be ;)

"But there's catch or two: It's slower and uses more resources than IE 7, and you can't get your hands on it."

Well, I developed a web browser which is fast, small, secure, portable, smart, cute and uses a brand new mind reading interface, but you cannot get your hands on it.

Just imagine it: a browser -- fully blown OS, runing on top of Windows, which in turns run in a virtual machine on top of a host OS.

Oh, the flexibility, the security and the ease of management.

Next thing you know, you will be running an AJAX `OS' in that new fancy browser.

Gimme Plan 9 or gimme death.

Given the proliferation of MSFT specific IIS centric websites, it's hard to see whether this will work or not given how insecure their other SW is. What absolute rubbish they now "have this innovative more secure browser" given how insecure their products have proven to be.

Frankly though -- one has to wonder how long this has already been under wraps, and not been made available. One should be asking the obvious question about product liability then in light of this...

The irony was not lost on me!!!

Here you have M$ creating a "more secure" browser; that is slower than IE7; and call it GAZELLE????

ROFLMAO

Some one in Redmond must have drank a gallon of "Kool-Aid".

some guy runs lynx in chroot

"We won't, though"

As always

Wasn't that one of the main selling points?

See http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_04.html for details

So let's get this straight:

1. Microsoft is well known for the security issues and slowness of their ACTUAL browser.

2. They decide to prove that it's hard to build a secure and fast browser.

3. They give out a press release claiming that they have built the secure browser, and it's indeed slow -- but nobody can see it to test its security or determine how fast it is.

4. They name this SLOW but SECURE project "Gazelle" (and not, say, "Rhino") !?

Why do I tend to think it _actually_ went something like this:

1. MS Engineer says "Hey, I have this idea for a really fast browser! Let's build it -- and call it Gazelle".

2. MS Manager: Okay, but in order to get anywhere, it's got to be really secure. We've taken a big hit on that presswise. Why not do some virtualization thing?

3. [Browser building...]

4. Engineer: Well, it's secure, but the security features and virtualization make it kind of slow...

5. Testers: Well, we can't really say it's secure; we haven't done really serious testing of that. It takes years and lots of minds to really test for security weaknesses...

6. Manager: Yeah, but if no-one else can test it, we can use this -- at least for PR purposes...

And so a press release is born.

C'mon, Microsoft. Opera and Mozilla, and now even Apple and Google, have shown that it's possible to build a faster, more standards-compliant, more secure browser than IE7 that still manages to work with legacy sites way better than IE8. Step up.

Javascript = Legacy?

Why do IE and Chrome get mentioned by name, but not Opera, Firefox etc. etc.

This might end up being a really BIG bullet to the MS foot. Microsoft has been claiming for years that the browser is "an integral part of the OS" and therefore cannot be removed/replaced with another browser.

So their boffins go out and build a browser that is NOT part of the base OS - and lo and behold, it's more secure.

What a conundrum! You can have a secure browser, but not as part of the OS. Or you can include the browser core in the OS "build" and leave the whole system open to unlimited free hacking.

And it demonstrates that MS COULD build a browser that isn't integral to Windows.

Yeah, I know, I'm skipping over all the technical stuff, but isn't this really the message this sends to the press?

"We knew we could make a safe browser, but it shows that we've been intentionally making an insecure product for years, we've know about it, and if we admit it and start shipping a secure product we're going to be up to our gonads in lawsuits because we claimed we couldn't do this."

Left foot, right foot, BANG! BANG! BANG!

(pirate, because, well, it is.)

Now even Microsoft don't want to use Internet Explorer? Why don't they just download Firefox or Opera

Sounds like and reads like [in the cited PDF... The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser"] a Virtual Governance Machine/Architecture/Protocol.

A Nice Idea, and as I'm sure none would reasonably disagree, given the Constant Streaming of Dire Straits News, Desperately Needed too.

* For Bringing Humanity to Others?

Aha! Do try to keep up. Dire Straits broke up 10 years ago, so there's no news there....

/moneyfornothing

When it said they had got a better browser than Chrome or IE, I thought they had finally downloaded the Mozilla engine source wrote a new browser correctly! Instead they have decided to attempt to take their obvious great talent for writing secure and stable operating systems and squeeze that into the one open pathway into most PCs!

MS take your browser\O/S thingy and shove it, I wouldn't trust you lot to write a LOGO script without introducing bugs and and letting in spyware!

"It may be untrue and this is just some experiment they're spinning to look like a future incarnation of IE, but that's the message they want to put into your head." .... By Bit Fiddler Posted Wednesday 25th February 2009 12:31 GMT

The real message here, Bit Fiddler, is that some experimenting here have some Cracking Craic Code...CQubed .... for those messages they may want to put into your head. And as new as IT may be thought to be, it is just AI Beta Version/they are just better versions of well-tried and tested Enigma Variations/Turing Bombes. And you don't need to be reminded surely of the Power and Control won and lost in ITs Transfer.

So they are basically admitting that IE7 is insecure. And a browser slower than IE7 or 8 would really take some doing.

Open source browsers ftw.

If this is actually true (who knows?), how long till a leak puts this browser in the torrents?

I'm betting it won't happen.