14 DAY TRIAL // Internet Explorer 11 is the default browser in Windows 8.1 and Microsoft claims that right now the two provide an experience that can hardly be matched by any other application out there.
Internet Explorer Head Dean Hachamovitch told TechRadar in an interview that that version 11 and Windows 8.1 provide the best experience on the web, explaining that all improvements have been implemented to make the program faster and more reliable.
“Other browsers run here, there and everywhere. They don't run with excellence in any one particular place or on any one particular device - and that is an opportunity,” he explained.
“When you put an old browser and an old browser interface on any of these shiny new devices - on a tablet, on a hybrid - you're going to run into some problems. You're going to run into a little bit of fail. You're going to notice when you browse with these other devices and other browsers that you don't have the responsiveness you have in IE 11, that you don't have the performance you want,” Hachamovitch continued.
Internet Explorer 11 continues to be offered in two different flavors, one on the standard desktop UI and another one in the Metro environment.
The latter has received improved touch support to be used on tablet and several other improvements, one of which makes it possible to open up to 100 different tabs without draining the battery.
“Tabs are limited, not just in how many you can have but in what you can do with them, how you can interact with them. And it just gets more disappointing when you jack in a keyboard and mouse because it just doesn't do what you expect from a notebook, from a full PC,” the Microsoft exec added.
Internet Explorer 11 is currently available in Preview form in the testing version of Windows 8.1, but is expected to be launched as a stable build later this year before the holiday season.