Microsoft today released the first public beta of Internet Explorer 9, its latest effort to reclaim the ground it has lost to rivals Mozilla, Google and others.
"People go to the Web for sites, not for the browser," Dean Hachamovitch, vice president for IE, said at a release event in San Francisco Wednesday morning. "How can IE make sites shine?"
IE9, which Microsoft announced almost a year ago and has offered up as four developer previews since March 2010, features hardware acceleration, faster JavaScript rendering and a dramatically streamlined interface that mimics the minimalist approach first used by Google's Chrome and then copied by others, including Mozilla's Firefox.
"IE9 has a clean design that puts the focus on the sites, not the browser," said Hachamovitch, who repeatedly stressed that the new browser will get out of the way and put the spotlight on Web content.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185778/
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"People go to the Web for sites, not for the browser," Dean Hachamovitch, vice president for IE, said at a release event in San Francisco Wednesday morning. "How can IE make sites shine?"
IE9, which Microsoft announced almost a year ago and has offered up as four developer previews since March 2010, features hardware acceleration, faster JavaScript rendering and a dramatically streamlined interface that mimics the minimalist approach first used by Google's Chrome and then copied by others, including Mozilla's Firefox.
"IE9 has a clean design that puts the focus on the sites, not the browser," said Hachamovitch, who repeatedly stressed that the new browser will get out of the way and put the spotlight on Web content.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185778/
