Tag archive: Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft has announced that beginning early next year, it will begin silently upgrading Internet Explorer on systems running Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The move mirrors an upgrade strategy that's been used by Google Chrome since 2009, which routinely upgrades users to the latest version without explicitly asking for permission. Currently, even if Windows users have automatic upgrades enabled, Microsoft asks for permission… Read More

In downtown New York City today, Microsoft held a press conference to show off Windows Phone “Mango,” the much anticipated update to Windows Phone 7. We were on hand to check out the event, where a number of the “500 new features” were shown off. We already know about some of Mango's new features from Mix 11 and some recent leaks, but Microsoft revealed quite a few new tidbits. The presentation was split into three… Read More

Mozilla's Firefox 4 browser has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its launch a month ago; however, the new browser's rapid uptake doesn't seem to have attracted many new fans: according to Web metrics firms, Firefox's overall share of the browser market has remained essentially flat since the Firefox 4 launch. The figures suggest that while existing Firefox users are rapidly checking out the new release,… Read More

Google announced today the release of Google Toolbar 7, which brings Google Instant and other features to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Mimicking the functionality found in the Google's Chrome browser (or simple ol' Google.com), Toolbar 7 allows for Instant search results to appear when queries are typed into the Google Toolbar. This feature works with both IE8 and the new IE9. To enable Instant search, Internet Explorer… Read More

Here's a brilliant little slice of awesome to start your day with. Pac-Man, one of the world's most enduringly popular video game characters, is the star of a newly launched HTML5-powered in-browser game, The World's Biggest Pac-Man. The round, yellow pellet-chomper already has a home at Google, but this new website takes him to another level entirely. Created by Soap Interactive in conjunction with Microsoft and… Read More

Bold claims of superiority have been known to occur throughout the course of the browser wars. But Microsoft has taken the rhetoric into new territory after announcing that the latest iteration of its Internet Explorer is the most energy-efficient browser on the market. To reach that conclusion, Microsoft tested IE9 against Firefox 4, Safari 5, Chrome 10 and Opera 11. Microsoft tested each browser's energy consumption on an Intel laptop by… Read More

This is a good week for Mozilla. Firefox 4 was released less than 24 hours ago and it has already been embraced by 1.95 percent of the global browser market, web analytics firm StatCounter reveals. For comparison, Microsoft's competing Internet Explorer 9, which was released last week, had only taken a 0.87 percent share of the market as of yesterday. In related news, Mozilla also made the release candidate versions of Firefox 4′s… Read More

So Internet Explorer 9 is finally available for download, has already been downloaded 2.35 million times, and a strong Release Candidate for FireFox 4 is out. How do they stack up with Google's Chrome and against one another? All of the sudden, the browser wars have gotten a lot more interesting. For the first time in a while, the major browsers are almost on a level playing field when it comes to a number of important competitive… Read More

Microsoft dropped the latest update to its veteran web browser on Monday night with the release of Internet Explorer 9. While the application continues to be a market leader, its dominance has slipped a little in recent years due to the popularity of Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome alternatives. As expected however, users still flocked to download the software update and Microsoft is pretty pleased with the results. IE9 saw… Read More

For Web addicts, the last few years have been great. While Microsoft was once content to sit on its browser throne, intense competition from Google and Mozilla has brought a plethora of innovative new features to the market. Whenever one browser implements a popular new feature, the others seem sure to follow. Never has this been more clear than with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, the newest version of its exceedingly popular browser.… Read More

Microsoft's long-awaited browser update, Internet Explorer 9, is now available for download from BeautyOfTheWeb.com. The announcement of IE9′s official launch came during the Microsoft event at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday. Rather than a mere update, IE9 is a complete rebuild from IE8, which many used, but also complained about. In terms of user interface (UI), IE9 looks and feels… Read More

The Firefox 4 beta was released last month, but with Google's Chrome 10 now roaming free and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 coming on March 14, Mozilla is preparing to round the corner with the final release of its latest browser update. The company announced yesterday on The Mozilla Blog that the Firefox 4 release candidate is now live, launching the final stage before the release is made official. The update introduces a wealth of… Read More

Microsoft may want to be a buzzkill in stopping us all from using its 10-year-old Internet Explorer 6 web browser, but it really is for our own good. That software is old and outdated. You're probably safer seeking out a virus to download and manually install. Fortunately, the world has moved on a few versions since the release of IE6. The latest update, Internet Explorer 9, has been rapidly approaching release in recent weeks. The… Read More

It's been more than 10 years since Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 6, and arguably it's been one of the most successful Web browsers on the planet. Too successful perhaps, since a decade later it still accounts for about 12 percent of all Web traffic on the planet, according to Net Applications. Since IE6 represents decade-old technology—riddled with security issues, performance problems, and a raft of incompatibilities… Read More

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has accepted Microsoft's submission of the “do not track” technology the company developed for Internet Explorer 9 for consideration as a possible Internet standard. The technology basically operates via “Tracking Protection Lists” that can be published by any number of providers. If Web users like the thought behind a particular list, they can subscribe to it and have the the… Read More