Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) claims to conserve power in ways that no other modern browsers have before. The product team behind the software looked at three areas in order to try and optimize energy use - adapting PC hardware to accelerate IE 9, idle resource usage, and power management guidance settings.

The workers on IE 9 tested several scenarios with several different modern browsers using a instrumented Intel PC based on Calpella, the sixth-generation Centrino platform of mobile chipset, mobile processor, and mobile network. The PC was also fitted with Windows 7 before visiting...

One recent announcement made by the IE team provides an illustrative example of Internet Explorer 9’s superiority compared to its predecessor, Internet Explorer 8.

Vishwac Sena Kannan and Kevin Luu, Program Managers, Internet Explorer revealed that Microsoft is expanding the language support for IE9 as of this week, effectively doubling the number of languages available to customers running the latest iteration of IE.

A part of the announcement is focused on the evolution from IE8 to IE9, with the two IE team members noting that “With IE9, our goal was to deliver more languages faster....

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has escaped a huge memory leak flaw affecting rival browsers.

The flaw was posted to the Chromium issue tracker earlier this month. Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 are not affecting by the issue according to initial developer testing. The Next Web reports that Chrome is affected, alongside Firefox and Safari. Opera’s browser has not been tested.

The memory leak occurs when an image result contains a “Cache-control:no-store” attribute as it loads. Browsers are supposed to load the images and then free the memory up post load. The bug means memory is never...

WordPress has announced that the blogging platform will no longer support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser.

The ten year old web browser continues to be used by many, who don’t pay attention to warnings that they need to upgrade. The browser is not secure and is no longer supported by many websites. Even Microsoft, its creator, has likened the aged web browser to sour milk.

In a blog post, Word Press revealed that the website will no longer support the web browser. Visiting the website from IE6 will prompt the user that the web browser is insecure and would advise them to install...