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Photo credit: AP | FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, file photo, Steven Sinofsky, then-president of the Microsoft Windows group, delivers his presentation at the launch of Microsoft Windows 8, in New York. Microsoft shares slid more than 4 percent before the opening bell Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, after the software company revealed that Sinofsky was leaving. Sinofsky's departure comes just weeks after Microsoft launched Windows 8, a major overhaul of the operating system that's used on most of the world's computers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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SAN FRANCISCO - The latest version of Microsoft's Web browser is now available to the vast audience connecting to the Internet on personal computers running on the Windows 7 operating system.
The redesigned browser, Internet Explorer 10, made its debut last month when Microsoft released Windows 8, which makes dramatic changes to an operating system that has been powering PCs for decades.
Internet Explorer 10 initially was introduced Tuesday to Windows 7 users in a "preview," or test, mode. The new browser isn't compatible with XP, Vista and any other older Windows version.
Although Microsoft is staking its future on Windows 8, far more PCs rely on Windows 7. Microsoft Corp. says more than 670 million licenses for Windows 7 have been sold since its release in 2009. Windows 8 is unlikely to approach that level of usage until at least 2014, based on analyst forecasts.
Desktops, laptops and tablet computers running on Windows 8 are sold with Internet Explorer 10 already installed. Those with older Windows versions will have to download and install the new browser separately.
Although Internet Explorer 10 is supposed to process Web pages more quickly and smoothly than its predecessors, it may have limited appeal to Windows 7 users.
That's because Microsoft primarily designed Internet Explorer 10 for tablet computers and other devices, including a new breed of PCs that have touch-screen displays. Relatively few Windows 7 PCs can be controlled with fingers on a display screen.
Microsoft is hoping many website developers will download and install Internet Explorer 10 on their Windows 7 machines and see the browser's potential for making online services more compelling and dynamic. If that happens, more websites may include features that take advantage of Internet Explorer 10's full capabilities on the bevy of Windows 8 machines expected to be sold during the next year, said Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general manager for the browser.
Internet Explorer 10's main purpose is to make viewing websites as enjoyable and convenient as using applications tailor-made for specific mobile devices.
For instance, when reading an article on a news site, users of Internet Explorer 10 can just swipe across the screen to continue reading the next page instead of having to scroll down to click on a link, as most browsers require. Microsoft also says games such as "Contre Jour" played on Internet Explorer 10 will work as well, or even better, than those packaged in applications.
Realizing that goal is crucial to Microsoft as it tries to make a bigger splash in the smartphone and tablet markets. It probably will take years before mobile devices running on Windows 8 boast as many applications as their competitors, giving Microsoft an added incentive to build a superior Web browser. The mobile operating systems designed by Apple Inc. and Google Inc. each boast more than 700,000 applications.
Microsoft also hopes Internet Explorer 10 can reverse recent trends in the Web browser market. By some estimates, Google's Chrome browser has supplanted Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser. Other research firms still assert that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used, although all measures show it has been losing market share to Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari.
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gonna install now brb
At this point, most common browsers are good enough to where it just comes down to preference. Hell, IE isn't that bad anymore.
The only true downside to IE that still remains in my opinion is addons. Or lack thereof.
[QUOTE=Cjmax;38444860]At this point, most common browsers are good enough to where it just comes down to preference. Hell, IE isn't that bad anymore.[/QUOTE]
This is true. I can yell at someone for using IE6 because it holds the rest of us back. I can't yell at someone for using IE10.
[QUOTE=Panda X;38445245]The only true downside to IE that still remains in my opinion is addons. Or lack thereof.[/QUOTE]
Like I've said in every IE thread, I'd jump ship from Chrome to IE if it had some form of syncing and addons (like adblock plus)
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38445381]Like I've said in every IE thread, I'd jump ship from Chrome to IE if it had some form of syncing and addons (like adblock plus)[/QUOTE]
I'm not [I]that[/I] familiar with newer versions of IE, but I was under the impression that Chrome is still the only Browser that keeps each tab and extension as its own process to isolate crashing.
IE6.
Best version.
Netscape 4 life.
[QUOTE=MIPS;38445455]IE6.
Best version.[/QUOTE]
What about IE 4.01 and 5.5 ?
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38446077]All the webdevs that supported those have already killed themselves.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;v0NoHN1TU5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NoHN1TU5I[/video]
It's a fucking touchscreen epidemic.
ie9 and ie10 are definitely browsers that can compete with chrome, sure they aren't as fast and don't really have addons, but they handle loading lots of images and flash-related things much better than chrome and won't freeze tabs after having a page open for too long
the fact that ie treats tabs as different windows on the taskbar is pretty nice too
I use Internet Explorer for watching videos as it's the only browser on Windows that supports proper fullscreen when using DPI scaling. Everything else I do on Chrome though.
[QUOTE=Bad Joe;38454179]the fact that ie treats tabs as different windows on the taskbar is pretty nice too[/QUOTE]
I'm personally not a fan of that myself.
[QUOTE=venn178;38445421]I'm not [I]that[/I] familiar with newer versions of IE, but I was under the impression that Chrome is still the only Browser that keeps each tab and extension as its own process to isolate crashing.[/QUOTE]Firefox does that too since version 4, but FF is bloated as hell and I won't use it.
Are they still using that dubstep song?
and i feel like i am just too close to love you
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;38454684]I'm personally not a fan of that myself.[/QUOTE] Firefox and Chrome does it (Chrome has to have it by a command and it's very laggy, firefox has to have it activated in options(?))
I have to use IE at school because Chrome and Firefox consider the public wifi I'm using a threat and refuse to access any internet page.
IE's lack of security actually helped me :v:
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38456184]Firefox and Chrome does it (Chrome has to have it by a command and it's very laggy, firefox has to have it activated in options(?))[/QUOTE]
I know, but I'm referring more to the out-of-the-box (you know, vanilla) experience. Maybe it's just me but I despise seeing all these separate windows on my taskbar instead of one neat one. I purposely don't use separate windows on Chrome.
Netscape Navigator, bitches
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;38457037]Wasn't there a thread a while back saying that IE has better significantly better security than both FF and Chrome?[/QUOTE]
IIRC it said chrome did but then it was found out that google bribed them with money to speak good of chrome
installed IE10 and it's not too much different from IE9. New scroll bar looks cool and the way it highlights links when you mouse over them is a bit different. The tabs bar is slightly changed (to look more Metro-y) and I like it, looks neat.
Apparently IE9 didn't render the Acid3 test perfectly (but still got 100/100), I did the test and IE10 still gets 100/100 and now there doesn't appear to be any inconsistencies between the test result and the reference at all. So that's something at least.
Haven't noticed any performance improvements, but I doubt they'd be noticeable much anyways.
Gonna repeat many people. Last vers of IE are capable of using many CSS3 and other neat things so they are not a pain to the web anymore.
Although IE6 and 7...
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