Today, Microsoft introduced a new version of it's web-browser, Internet Explorer 9. IE9 will replace IE8 which debuted March, 2009. IE9 is an attempt to regain some of its market share in 2006 IE commanded 80+% of web-browser market share, compared to the 60% it currently has. The market for web-browsers has opened up and gotten more competitive. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari are all throwing their hats into the ring to try to win market share. Microsoft has been slow in making huge leaps forward with newer versions of IE, IE9 is the exception.
IE9 has been behind in several innovations for web browsers. IE9 is trying to rival newer features in other browsers and also trying to move past competitors with even newer innovations of their own. These innovations do come at a price: IE9 was made to be supported on Windows 7. Windows Vista works but misses out on some of the newer features, and anything older than that simply isn't supported. I guess at some point Microsoft had to look into the future to become competitive with the other browsers out there, and in doing so they left the past behind....
Want to read more about IE9 specific features? Check out Edward C. Baig's USA Today article, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 a huge step forward .
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