Microsoft has recently taken the wrapping paper off of IE9 and released it to the world for public consumption. The browser offers many new features and a revamped user interface that has been receiving generally positive reception from its end users.

Naturally, Microsoft has been quite pleased with the growth and adoption rate that the browser has been receiving. Currently IE9 holds 3.6% usage share on Windows 7 and is continuing to grow at a rapid pace, Microsoft states on their blog:


According to Net Applications’ latest data, worldwide, IE9 share on Windows 7 reached 3.6% for the month...

Microsoft this week rolled out a second preview of its Internet Explorer 10 browser. Like the first, IE10 Platform Preview 2 is primarily intended to give Web developers and designers an early look at the upcoming features so they can prepare accordingly. Outside of a handful of demos, there isn't much for the average user to play around with -- it doesn't even ship with a URL bar -- but it does reveal that Microsoft appears to be on the right track.

One of the more talked about additions is support for the Web Worker API. What this does is give developers the freedom to throw multiple scripts...

Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 9 mobile for Windows Phone 7 on Monday.

Speaking at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled that Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 9 mobile later this year. Microsoft says Internet Explorer 9 will offer “a dramatically enhanced mobile Web browser experience.”

Steve Ballmer introduced Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone and explained it will bring “complete with hardware acceleration to the Windows Phone.” Ballmer also talked up the fact Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 for Mobile is a “great example of brining assets...

Microsoft continues to hold back rival browsers on Windows 7 in the United States and worldwide.

Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released in March to Windows 7 and Vista users. Microsoft ditched Windows XP support in a bid to shift consumers and businesses onto Microsoft’s latest operating systems. Windows XP still accounts for nearly 50% of all operating system usage share worldwide, holding on to its title of most widely used operating system. Microsoft’s competitors target Windows XP with their latest browser offerings, allowing them to pick up additional usage...

Windows 7 users have warmed up to Internet Explorer 9 more than they have with any direct rival of this IE version, namely Firefox 4.0 and Chrome 12.

According to statistics from Internet metrics firm Net Applications, this is valid both in the United States and worldwide, with IE9 grabbing the second spot in terms of usage share behind its precursor, Internet Explorer 8.

At the end of June 2011, some 47.94% of Windows 7 users in the US were still running IE8, a consistent drop compared to the previous month’s usage statistics, when it accounted for as much as 53.54%.

In the same period of...

This fall, a new set of mobile phones running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system should arrive on shelves, bringing to the market the latest flavor of the platform, codenamed Mango.

It should come with a number of over 500 new features and enhancements, with the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Mobile being one of them.

IE9 brought to desktop PCs a more beautiful web, and IE9 for Windows Phone Mango should make a similar move on mobile phones.

Today, web developers can test their sites against IE9 Mobile through downloading and installing the Windows Phone Developer Tools on their...

Google revealed on Wednesday that it plans to phase out Internet Explorer 7 support.

The support will be discontinued on the company’s Apps platform from August 1. Firefox 3.5, IE7 and Safari 3 will all be dropped. “In these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites,” said Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Venkat Panchapakesan. “Eventually these apps may stop working entirely,” he added.

Google says it’s dropping the support in order to focus on advanced browsers that support HTML5. “Older...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Internet Explorer 9 is now available in 93 different languages.

The software giant released support for Internet Explorer 9 in 53 additional languages on Wednesday. The language support now places Internet Explorer 9 at the top for local language browser support on Windows. Mozilla is a close second place with 86 languages for Firefox 4, Chrome and Opera lag behind with just over 40 and Safari 5 performs the worst with just 16 languages supported. “With IE9, our goal was to deliver more languages faster,” said Microsoft’s Vishwac Sena Kannan. ”With...

Microsoft revealed on Tuesday its next-generation of Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 10 builds on Internet Explorer 9 and includes support for even more standards like CSS3 gradients, multi-column, and grid layouts. Microsoft posted a video of Internet Explorer 10 platform preview on Tuesday and shared more information in a blog post on Tuesday. “We’re about three weeks into development of IE10, and based on the progress we’ve made, we want to start engaging the development community now,” wrote Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer. Future platform previews...

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9, seems to have little to say about Microsoft. It doesn't even say "Internet Explorer" anywhere on the browser.

Microsoft has trimmed the fat off the glassy browser frame, creating more on-screen playground for Web developers to stretch out on.

It's clear Microsoft has made some major development changes to bring back the millions of Web users who have been lured away by Mozilla Firefox, a competitor that has whittled Internet Explorer's share from more than 90 percent to 57 percent of the market.

Microsoft released the new browser Monday night in...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 launch partners fired up their websites on Monday ahead of the public release of Internet Explorer 9 later today.

Microsoft has partnered with a variety of sites including UK National Rail, ESPN, BMW and Sky News. The sites are specially designed for Internet Explorer 9 users and take advantage of HTML5 in most cases. National Rail’s site offers a simple and animated way to check UK train times. Sky News’ site provides an animated 3D carousel of the world’s latest news. Microsoft’s launch partners demonstrate exactly what can be achieved with hardware...

As of mid-2011, customers leveraging the embedded flavor of Windows 7 SP1 will be able to download the IE9 app template from the software giant’s ECE site, provided that they have the right accounts to access content.

“The Internet Explorer 9 Application Template for Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 was released in the June 2011 Feature Update. This template is used to ensure all the required dependencies for Internet Explorer 9 are added to a runtime image when created in ICE,” Lynda Allen, Microsoft Embedded program manager.

“This release makes the Internet Explorer 9 application available...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser has come out top in a recent social engineering malware test.

NSS Labs, an independent security research and testing organization, found that Internet Explorer 9 blocks up to seven times more malware than other browsers. Internet Explorer 9 with SmartScreen URL reputation caught 96% of live malware threats compared to second placed Google Chrome 12 with 13.2%. NSS Labs broke down its tests into regions and found that 95% of threats in Asia were defeated by Internet Explorer 9, compared to 92% in Europe. Globally 96% of threats were defeated.

“We continue...

The latest NSS Labs report is in, and the findings show that Internet Explorer completely dominates all other browsers when it comes to preventing socially engineered malware. For those that aren’t aware, socially engineered malware is a form of malicious software that attempts to trick users into installing it, and thanks to Internet Explorer 9’s SmartScreen URL filtering the browser prevents 92% of it; and up to 100% when you include Application Reputation to filer untrustworthy executables.



Internet Explorer 8 also does well in this arena, blocking 80% of all socially engineered malware....

It might seem impossible to believe, but Windows Vista is drawing to the end of its short, unhappy life. Under Microsoft’s official product lifecycle, the mainstream support phase for Windows Vista will end in less than one year, on April 10, 2012—five years, two months, and 16 days after it became generally available on January 25, 2007. (For business editions, there’s an extended support period that lasts another five years, guaranteeing security updates until 2017.)

I don’t expect there to be any great outcry when Vista fades away. But knowing that end-of-life date helps answer one...

Microsoft is planning to push Internet Explorer 9 as an important Windows Update.

The software giant will distribute Internet Explorer 9 to existing beta and RC users on March 21. The update will also be offered as Important to Windows Update customers. Microsoft confirmed the plans in a Twitter message on Wednesday:

Microsoft’s head of Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, previously confirmed the company will also upgrade RC users to the final build. “We will automatically update IE9 beta users to the IE9 RC. After the final release, we will automatically update IE9 RC users to the final...

Microsoft said on Monday that it will postpone the release of Internet Explorer 9 in Japan.

The company issued a press release on Monday stating that due to the recent earthquake, it will be postponing the Japanese release of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft cites network bandwidth load and cutting back on company activities as the primary reasons. Microsoft states that this will not affect other versions of Internet Explorer 9, to be made available on March 14.

A powerful 9-magnitude earthquake and Tsunami devastated Northern Japan after striking the country on Friday afternoon. The aftermath...