Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 Offers Speed, HTML 5
Microsoft wants the world to abandon Internet Explorer 6 and upgrade to IE7 or IE8 for security reasons, but the company says Web and application developers will want to upgrade to the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, IE9, for its optimized performance and HTML 5 support.

Microsoft seeking browser comeback with IE9

Without revealing when the browser will become generally available, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch told attendees of a keynote address at Microsoft's MIX10 Web developer conference that the company will not only support HTML 5, but also drive efforts to make the Web presentation specification a standard.

According to research from Janco Associates, Microsoft IE continues to lead the pack of browsers despite losing market share in the past 12 months. Microsoft now holds a bit less than 65% of the total browser market, compared to more than 80% in February 2007. Firefox market share remained mostly flat at about 17%. At the same time, market share for Google's browser grew to nearly 6%, while Safari increased to 1.39%.

"This will move Microsoft much higher up in terms of their level of innovation in the browser. The company has a very broad user base today, and this news will be met with much applause from the developer community who would like to see all vendors embrace standards," according to McLeish.

Source: www.pcworld.com

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# Greekstyler 2010-03-29 06:40

Word Up, IE for the win.

 

 

# ThanatoS 2010-03-29 14:15

IE for the trash.. Firefox and Safari already offer HTML 5; Microsoft is way too slow and I don't understand why people still use IE.-

 

 

# Greekstyler 2010-03-29 17:33

"Microsoft now holds a bit less than 65% of the total browser market"

I'm not saying IE is the best in prestanda just because more % of the users is using IE. Don't forget that every MS windows you are installing, IE is the standard and only web browser installed. Less experienced users just doesn't give a damn, or just don't have a clue there is other web browsers.
I'm saying this to answer your question on yesterdays conversation in T.S, cause you didn't believe the numbers.

And yes, I've been using IE for about 15 years, and just as my underwear, i will not change it. Even if i got almost all web browsers installed, but that's to check comp-ability of a homepage when i create one.

 

 

# PAOK.GR 2010-03-30 02:05

Commodore 64 for the win.. I REMEMBER DO YOU????
HAD 1 USED 1 WAS PRO AT RENEGADE AT THAT TIME THX

 

 

# Wa$abi 2010-03-30 09:59

LOL PAOK, wrong place to write about commodore 64

 

 

# Greekstyler 2010-03-30 12:00

Quoting PAOK.GR:

Commodore 64 for the win.. I REMEMBER DO YOU????
HAD 1 USED 1 WAS PRO AT RENEGADE AT THAT TIME THX

lol... Fail!?

 

 

# aimlezz 2010-10-03 13:02

Quoting Greekstyler:

Don't forget that every MS windows you are installing, IE is the standard and only web browser installed.

Not anymore Greek. when u install windows vista or above(dunno about XP) you get an option to choose from all available net browsers that are on the market right now. Microsoft had a court case for forcing people to use IE as their browser. IE is no longer installed as a default web browser in Windows.

 

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