Internet Explorer 9 - Releases Monday
This week Microsoft timed the release of Internet Explorer 9 to occur during the South by Southwest tech gathering in Texas that starts this weekend. IE 9's main advantage is support for HTML 5 which is a new standard for programmers and designers to create more robust user experiences graphically without tools like Flash and other "plug-ins".
IE 9 will only be deployed for Window's Vista and Window's 7 computers. There is no planned support for Windows XP. Probably because XP itself has a final end of support date of August 2014.
Because of the Javascript engines in the 32 bit version being newer than released in the 64 bit version the 32 bit version appears to be faster even on 64 bit versions of Windows until the Chakra Javascript engine is updated. The 32 bit version is benchmarking faster than Chrome or Firefox current releases based on the anecdotal data in the market.
Get ready.. it's coming Monday.
IE 9 will only be deployed for Window's Vista and Window's 7 computers. There is no planned support for Windows XP. Probably because XP itself has a final end of support date of August 2014.
Because of the Javascript engines in the 32 bit version being newer than released in the 64 bit version the 32 bit version appears to be faster even on 64 bit versions of Windows until the Chakra Javascript engine is updated. The 32 bit version is benchmarking faster than Chrome or Firefox current releases based on the anecdotal data in the market.
Get ready.. it's coming Monday.