Internet Explorer Обои

Microsoft appears to be holding back rival browsers on Windows 7.

Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released in March to Windows 7 and Vista users. Microsoft ditched Windows XP users in a bid to shift consumers and businesses away from the legacy operating system. Windows XP still accounts for nearly 50% of all operating system usage share worldwide, making it the most widely used operating system. Microsoft’s competitors still target Windows XP with their latest browser offerings, allowing them to pick up additional usage share.

Microsoft’s risky gamble is working...

Safari comes last.



Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser for preventing the execution of web-based malware, according to a NSS Labs test.

Windows Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome 12, Mozilla Firefox 4, яблоко Safari 5 and Opera 11 were tested against 1,188 malicious URLs, with IE9 blocking 96 per cent of the URLs when the reputation filter was enabled. It also blocked an additional 3.2 per cent once its application reputation filter was enabled.

In comparison, Chrome caught 13.2 per cent, Firefox and Safari caught 7.6 per cent, while Opera caught 6.1 per cent of the live threats....

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 comes with an advanced security feature that makes it much safer than other Web browsers, including Google Chrome, according to a computer researcher.

Internet Explorer has long been a Избранное target of cybercriminals; security holes are regularly found in older versions of the Популярное browser, leaving it easily exploitable for a number of different attacks.

But with the March 14 release of IE9, Microsoft may have finally gotten things right, Ed Bott of the security website ZDNet says.

Better filters for bad files

Bott cites IE9's SmartScreen filters, which...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) claims to conserve power in ways that no other modern browsers have before. The product team behind the software looked at three areas in order to try and optimize energy use - adapting PC hardware to accelerate IE 9, idle resource usage, and power management guidance settings.

The workers on IE 9 tested several scenarios with several different modern browsers using a instrumented Intel PC based on Calpella, the sixth-generation Centrino platform of mobile chipset, mobile processor, and mobile network. The PC was also fitted with Windows 7 before visiting...

One Последнее announcement made by the IE team provides an illustrative example of Internet Explorer 9’s superiority compared to its predecessor, Internet Explorer 8.

Vishwac Sena Kannan and Kevin Luu, Program Managers, Internet Explorer revealed that Microsoft is expanding the language support for IE9 as of this week, effectively doubling the number of languages available to customers running the latest iteration of IE.

A part of the announcement is focused on the evolution from IE8 to IE9, with the two IE team members noting that “With IE9, our goal was to deliver еще languages faster....