Later today, November 18th, 2009, Microsoft will deliver the first taste of the next iteration of its proprietary browser. The Redmond company is looking to share plans about the successor of IE8, namely Internet Explorer 9 on the second day of the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. It was Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software Architect that revealed the start of the discussion focused on IE9. Ozzie nominated Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, as the Microsoft executive that would make public the first details on Internet Explorer 9. “In terms of runtimes, our strategic runtime for delive... [read more >>] Power consumption is one aspect of technology where less is indisputably more. Less power consumption is synonymous with cut costs, reduced carbon emissions, and increased battery life. But while surfing the web with a power socket nowhere in sight, energy costs and the carbon footprint might just be the last things on a Windows PC user’s mind. Not the same is valid for battery life. A critical aspect of mobility being the ability to stretch battery life as much as possible, Internet Explorer 8 is apparently the best choice in browsers out of all competitive products when it comes down to eating the less amounts of energy. AnandTech t... [read more >>] Microsoft is pushing forward with the availability process of Internet Explorer 8, with a new wave of downloads scheduled to hit today, August 25th, 2009. The Redmond company announced since the end of June 2009 that it would start serving IE8 RTW to business users by the end of August, and the bits come right on schedule. The gold build of Internet Explorer 8 will be offered to all companies leveraging the software giant’s update server distribution solution designed to help administrators manage Microsoft Update releases across corporate networks. “Starting Tuesday August 25, 2009, Internet Explorer 8 will be made available ... [read more >>] Microsoft may have already started gathering feedback for Internet Explorer 9 and debuted planning for the next iteration of IE, but it is still in the process of making Internet Explorer 8 available worldwide. On May 29, 2009, the Redmond company released a new wave of IE8 RTW downloads, the third one since the initial release of the browser. A total of 20 new flavors of Internet Explorer 8 have been released to web and are now up for grabs for users worldwide. The 20 new IE8 releases offered represent just as many new localized versions of the browser. IE8 now comes in Albanian, Assamese, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), G... [read more >>] Google Chrome is nothing short of a non-event, Mozilla's Firefox is defective, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer is going nowhere fast, while continuing to lose market share to rivals. These are the conclusions of a whitepaper put together by Janco Associates. The market analysis firm has slammed Chrome as insignificant in relation to its competitors, despite the fact that the Google open-source browser has managed to climb over 1% of the market in under a year since it was released. Furthermore, Janco indicated that Firefox's problems handicapped its usage on some websites. All the while, the shortcomings of rival browsers h... [read more >>] Internet Explorer 8 will not be technically done until Microsoft will sign off the code for Windows 7, which comes to the table with its own IE8 components. And yet, even after the Release Candidate of Windows 7 hit the web, Microsoft has started looking ahead to the next iteration of Internet Explorer. It's yet too early to say that the Redmond company has started the actual planning for IE vNext, but feedback for the next version of the browser is certainly welcomed. At the same time, Microsoft managed to point out that the successor of Internet Explorer 8 would be Internet Explorer 9. In the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Expert Zone C... [read more >>] After just one day since Windows 7 Release Candidate delivered new functionality for Internet Explorer 8 Build 7100, Microsoft is killing it off. IE8 continues to evolve past the RTW stage for previous versions of Windows, as the browser is an integral component of Windows 7. With the RC Build 7100, the Redmond company also advanced Internet Explorer with new reliability functionality related to how the browser handled delayed responsive (hanging) tabs or non-responsiveness (hard hanging) tabs. The new IE8 capabilities were introduced on May 4 concomitantly with the early availability of Windows 7 RC, and cut off on May 5 via a series of up... [read more >>] Over a month since the initial availability of Internet Explorer 8 RTW, Microsoft has made available for download a fresh wave of releases. The Redmond company gave the green light to IE8 RTW downloads on March 19, 2009, but the delivery of the gold version of Internet Explorer 7's successor was far from over. While IE8 was available initially in no less than 25 localized versions, the software giant is looking to better tailor the browser to markets worldwide. In this regard, 18 new language versions of Internet Explorer 8 have been Released to Web at the end of the past week. “We are pleased to announce the availability of Int... [read more >>] Microsoft considers this the right time for the browser to evolve as an operating system. This is in fact what Gazelle is about, building a web browser with a multi-principal operating system construction. Essentially, what this means is that an OS architecture is used as the model for constructing the Gazelle browser, as Microsoft Research attempts to tailor Gazelle to the modern Internet, a concept that has long evolved past the actual browsers themselves. With Gazelle, the software giant is looking to move past monolithic architectures specific to all traditional browsers. “Gazelle’s Browser Kernel is an operating system th... [read more >>] The release of Internet Explorer 8 on March 19, 2009, did nothing to turn IE's downward trajectory around, despite shooting past old-time rivals such as Opera and newer competitors like Google Chrome without any problems. In just a few days short of the first couple of weeks on the market, IE has left Chrome and Opera in the dust when it comes down to market share. Launched half a month ago, Internet Explorer 8 accounted, at the end of March 2009, for a usage share of 1.78%, besting Google Chrome, which, since the launch in 2008, only managed to climb to 1.16% and Opera, which is credited with just 0.62%, according to statistics provid... [read more >>] | 
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