We also regularly released “test drives” to illustrate what the platform makes possible, along with comprehensive tests that we submitted to Web standards bodies. Our new approach started with a regular cadence of meaningful platform previews. An important factor was the Web community’s engagement as the IE team took a more open and transparent approach across the nine platform releases of IE9. IE9 went from early preview to final release in less than a year, and in that time became the fastest growing beta of IE ever, with over 40 million pre-release downloads and 2% usage share on Windows 7. Interoperable: With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites. Trusted: IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:įast: With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.Ĭlean: With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications. With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows.
