Sunday, March 13, 2011

Here comes Internet Explorer 9 to make war on Google

Users of Windows 7 and Windows Vista can now download the new version of Internet Explorer software for browsing the Internet from Microsoft. IE9 comes on the market two years after Explorer 8 with the specific objective of recovering the lost ground compared with competing products, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in the first place.

While it is always the most used browser in the world, loses years Explorer users. According to data from NetApplications is now used by 56.7 per cent of the sailors: two years ago was 70 percent, almost three years ago to 80. And since the browser, thanks to the spread of so-called Web applications, is the key to access to software and services of the future, it is important to those who compete with software and services is focusing most of its business (like Google).

We do not know if this new version will be enough to stop the haemorrhaging of users, but it sure will make it more lively competition. IE9 does not have the wealth of additional applications of Firefox and boasted faster than Chrome is difficult to measure with the naked eye, but it is a modern software, with a clean and simple and with brand new technologies that improve navigation performance and privacy.

Performance. IE9, especially in most modern computers, is a fast browser: Web pages are opened in less time and more complex Web applications, Google Maps and Hotmail, are used in a fluid. Microsoft has achieved these results in two ways: first IE9 used to manage graphics, video and text on the page, not the main processor, but the graphics processor, which in the modern computer is powerful and often underutilized.

In second place was rewritten and made more responsive piece of software that takes care of reading the JavaScript language, what makes applications accessible in the browser very similar to traditional ones. Interface. IE9 adapts the interface made popular by Google Chrome, which follows many solutions.

The buttons for navigating back and forth, the box to type in the address and buttons to access features are displayed in a single layer: the browser becomes a simple frame and space to the sites you visit becomes larger. As in Chrome, even in the Explorer address box is multi-function: is used to initiate a search on Google, Bing and others, to scroll through the history of previously visited sites or to access your favorite sites.

Retouched also alerts you (when it blocks a popup, when you want to save a password), now displayed in a notification bar at the bottom. Privacy. Good news for privacy. IE9 an integrated system, called "protection monitoring" to block those Web sites that monitor, anonymously, user behavior, usually for statistical purposes or advertising.

The system is not activated as a default, but each user can load into the browser the list of those sites or services it intends to block. The solution that Microsoft would certify as a common standard, is intended to discuss it has the primary objective of online advertising services: first of all, again, Google.

Integration with Windows. Even Microsoft has introduced in IE9, but in his own way, how "Web App" feature that allows you to save on your desktop (but also in the Windows menu) and an icon of a Web site to "initiate" the site like a traditional software. Visit often, say, Facebook? Just act on the icon of the browser tool to add the site directly to the Windows Start menu and start from there.

Users of Windows 7 will add a picture of a well site and access to the taskbar, right-clicking on that icon, a series of quick links: On Facebook you can access your mailbox, to the dashboard and so on. Standards support. Programmers and web designers can be satisfied: the new Explorer supports the latest standards for Web site design and services Chief among these is known as HTML5 and includes a set of new technologies that make Web sites more and more like software, functionality and usability.

For users translates into a better quality of Web applications Windows Internet Explorer 9 can be downloaded using the Windows Update service or browsing the site dedicated to Microsoft software. As widely announced, Explorer 9 is not available for Windows XP.

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