Microsoft is back in browser game with Internet Explorer 9 Beta

It sure seems to be massive improvement over its previous version, and it shows. Microsoft has said that in less than a week after it launched Internet Explorer 9 Beta, more than two million users had downloaded the latest browser from the world’s largest software company.

The IE 9 interface is minimalist, which is perfectly in tune with the rest of the browsers around, especially Google’s Chrome. Users said it had seamless integration with Windows 7, Microsoft’s operating system.

The tech blog Gizmodo posted this review soon after its launch: “ Ninth time’s the charm, sometimes! At least that’s Microsoft’s hope with IE9, which brings new HTML5 support (including HTML5 video!), hardware accelerated 2D graphics, and a totally new JavaScript engine - and no XP support.” It added: “ Modern web apps are loaded with JavaScript, to the point that new browsers are practically measured by how fast they can render it.

(A faster JavaScript engine means sites like Gmail, Facebook and even Gizmodo don't just load faster, but runs more quickly.)” Seems like the latest version has got Microsoft back into the browser game which it had been losing to Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome.