Microsoft Corp. has finally released their much anticipated Internet Explorer 9 in 39 languages during the Microsoft event at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday.
Claimed to be the most downloaded beta browser of all time, boasting 40 million downloads and already gaining more than 2% usage on Windows 7, it is actually a complete rebuild of IE8, which has its own fair share of complains to date.
Most notable improvement is performance, according to Engadget, it is faster than IE8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.6.15 but still not as fast as Google Chrome and boasts advanced support for the emerging web standard HTML5. Design has been simplified and updated (much too late in my opinion). Another new feature is the 'One Box' which doubles up as an address bar and search bar where when searching through it, results show up instantly.
All-in-all it looks promising but I still have my reservations, maybe because of previous versions, just the mention of IE turns me off. But to be fair, it deserves a chance, give it time, maybe I'll be a convert since my weapon of choice is currently still Chrome.
Those of you who want to give it a try, you can download it at http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
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