Company backtracks, now says JavaScript performance is important
Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, IE9 (Internet Explorer 9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.
Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live, acknowledged that Microsoft had catching up to do. "We know we have a lot of work to do in some areas of performance," Sinofsky said today at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference).
More: http://infoworld.com/d/applications/ie9-will-close-performance-gap-microsoft-says-997?source=IFWNLE_nlt_firstlook_2009-11-19
Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, IE9 (Internet Explorer 9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.
Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live, acknowledged that Microsoft had catching up to do. "We know we have a lot of work to do in some areas of performance," Sinofsky said today at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference).
More: http://infoworld.com/d/applications/ie9-will-close-performance-gap-microsoft-says-997?source=IFWNLE_nlt_firstlook_2009-11-19