Internet Explorer 9: Beta Version Released

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) was released by Microsoft Corp who promise that the latest version is faster, with better graphics, and very user friendly. Microsoft also guarantees that this browser is very secure. Some other main features are; IE9 puts itself into the background and lets a user get a better view and hold of the website he is on, it has been released in 30 languages, graphics and text rendering is now done by the graphics card and not the CPU which increases speed and allows better quality of visuals, it supports HTML5, and few other innovations. In short, IE9 will work more like an application that has been installed on the PC itself rather than a conventional browser.

Dean Hachamovitch, GM - IE said, "People go to the Web for site, not the browser. Today Web sites are boxed in, the box is the browser." Peter O'Neill, Analyst, Forrester Research said, "IE9's tight integration with Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs on most of the world's PCs, enables IE9 to use a computer's hardware in a way that rival browsers cannot. This is going to make the Windows platform more attractive, and Microsoft hopes, help stop people from leaking away to other browsers." It is believed that the new features offered by Internet Explorer 9 will be beneficial and definitely exploited by major websites like Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

Records of last month indicate that IE has a 50% market share, followed by Firefox with 31%, Chrome with 11%, Safari on 4%, and Opera about 2%. The latest version, Internet Explorer 9 is expected to push up IE's market share considerably, mainly by arresting the growth of Firefox which has eaten into a lot of IE's market share as of late. A point to note is that Internet Explorer 9 will not work on Windows XP, and it needs to be run on either Windows Vista or Windows 7 to operate.