Download Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Stability and Reliability Refresh
It’s not often that Microsoft offers updates for software that is still in development, but the company is doing just that for the first public testing milestone of Internet Explorer 9.
Users of Internet Explorer 9 Beta, released in mid-September 2010, can boost their browsing experience up a notch with two new updates offered by the software giant.
Microsoft underlined from the get go that the new downloads are not new IE9 development builds, but that they are only designed to be installed on top of the IE9 Beta.
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Microsoft has unveiled the first public beta version of its new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (www.microsoft.com/ie9), and it’s packed with impressive features. With IE9, Microsoft hopes to win back some of the surfers who have abandoned the browser in favor of rivals such as Firefox and Chrome. Back in August 2008, IE was used by almost 70 per cent of surfers. Statistics published in August revealed that this figure had shrunk to 51 per cent.
Part of the reason for IE9’s fall in popularity was the introduction in March this year of an EU requirement that forced Microsoft to let Windows users choose which browser they use, rather than simply bundling IE onto all new Windows PCs. So the success of IE9, which isn’t compatible with XP (see box top right), is crucial to Microsoft if it wants to hold onto its dominance of the browser market.
Microsoft has high hopes for IE9, claiming it will make the web “a more beautiful place” by using the new HTML5 web standard. Here’s Web User’s guide to the new tools it has to offer.
Redesigned user interface
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Microsoft on Wednesday updated its rough-edged preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), adding support for several crucial HTML5 standards and boasting that the browser is faster than ever.
Last updated seven weeks ago, the IE9 Platform Preview is not a full-fledged browser, but instead features a very bare bones interface wrapped around Microsoft’s newest rendering and JavaScript engines.
When Microsoft debuted IE9 in mid-March, the company committed to updating the IE9 preview approximately every eight weeks until it issues a public beta. Microsoft has not disclosed a release date for either a public beta or the final version of IE9.
The third preview released Wednesday introduces support for HTML5’s Canvas element — the tag lets site designers insert dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images into pages — as well as for hardware-accelerated audio and video tags.
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