Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 to add spell checking, auto-correct

About damn time!

Microsoft is adding a commonly requested feature — spell-checking — to Internet Explorer (IE) 10.

The new feature is part of the already-released IE 10 developer previews, but Microsoft called it out and explained it in detail in a November 8 posting on the IEBlog.

While Microsoft execs have said they plan to make spellchecking support available to applications across the entire Windows 8 operating system, including IE 10, the IE team also plans to add spell-checking to IE 10 on all supported versions of Windows (meaning Windows 7, too), according to the post.

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