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This has been a big week for Microsoft, what with MIX10 going on and all that. They’ve announced more details about Windows Phone 7 Series (we’ll have some more later in this post) but the other big announcement involved the company’s internet browser. Internet Explorer has been the butt of jokes for a very long time now and for good reason. IE had slow rendering speeds, did not support the latest web standards, and just plain sucked big time. This time, Microsoft hopes to correct everything that went wrong with IE with a new version, Internet Explorer 9. The browser isn’t finished yet; heck a beta version isn’t even available yet. For now, it’s just the rendering subsystems with a simple UI that allows web address entry and not much else. But it’s big because a lot of people believe IE 9 is Microsoft’s opportunity to become relevant in the web browser scene again. IE 9 will support HTML5 and other new web technologies, as well as offer a speed boost through GPU acceleration. There’s still a long way to go before IE 9 sees wide release, and for Microsoft’s sake, we hope they get it right this time.
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