14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has officially launched Internet Explorer 11 as part of Windows 8.1, claiming that this new version of its browser is the fast and the most secure build to date.
This time, Redmond has published a lengthy blog post to explain that Internet Explorer 11 can make browsing fast despite network latency, as it bundles several technologies to improve page loading times.
Microsoft again brings page prediction, preloading, and prefetching in the spotlight, saying that all these features “can give the browser a head start in downloading and rendering the next page or downloading resources for the next page.”
“Network latency is a problem that holds back Web performance, even though we enjoy more bandwidth now than ever before. IE11 reduces the effects of network latency by downloading and preloading pages and Web resources in the background, downloading multiple resources in parallel using the SPDY/3 protocol, and prioritizing downloads of the most important resources on the page,” Microsoft explains.
Redmond then goes on to say that the automatic page prediction feature can help Internet Explorer predict the next page that you wish to go to, so it loads that page in the background to make the whole process faster.
At the same time, the browser remains very friendly with system resources and doesn’t affect battery life at all, which makes Internet Explorer 11 the best choice for tablets as well.
“IE11 only downloads resources that have high likelihood of impacting navigation performance. For example, IE11 preloads pages and content only when there is high confidence that you are going to visit them. Uniquely, IE also prevents sites from draining your device’s resources, by limiting the number of preload and prefetch operations from each Web page,” Redmond explained.
Internet Explorer 11 is available as the default browser in Windows 8.1 and as an optional download for Windows 7 users who wish to try out the newest version of the application.