Microsoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly integrated with Windows 7 and designed to fend off the rising threat of Google’s Chrome browser and other competitors. The version unveiled Wednesday is by far the most complete look most people will have yet at this version of Microsoft’s browser. Earlier this year, Microsoft released developer preview builds that had no user interface or security features and were intended only to show off standards compliance advancement and performance enhancements.
I have tried IE9 and its very good for a beta. That is a plus for Microsoft. Considering Chrome has a small percentage of users. I can't imagine IE9 will not take some users away. I have tried Chrome and its really no big deal. If anyone should worry I think it should be Firefox. They seem pretty stuck at the moment and are not gaining much more market share. A good browser from Microsoft could really hurt them.
And as such, they can pretty it up all they want, while failing **completely** to address the reality that its their tight integration with Windows, in the first place, that makes it a damn security risk to use, no matter how many of the 4-5 patches a month they push through. And, no. I am not going to give up Firefox, in trade for something MS came up with, in what must, honestly, be called "panicked" reaction to suddenly finding that people *will* install other browsers, if they didn't get their heads of out their backsides.
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IE9 Aims to Out-Chrome Chrome
Posted by: Mike Pearson September 16, 2010 05:00 AMMicrosoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly integrated with Windows 7 and designed to fend off the rising threat of Google’s Chrome browser and other competitors. The version unveiled Wednesday is by far the most complete look most people will have yet at this version of Microsoft’s browser. Earlier this year, Microsoft released developer preview builds that had no user interface or security features and were intended only to show off standards compliance advancement and performance enhancements.