-18/02/2010
Microsoft's new initiative to take over the browser war is the Internet Explorer IE 9. The browser will rival Firefox, which now is used by a quarter of Web surfers, but also Apple's Safari, which now runs on Windows as well as Mac OS X, and Google's Chrome
Microsoft is focusing on performance and the Internet Explorer IE 9 amongst a number of things is meant to be Faster at processing JavaScript
Web site developers will see performance gains and other benefits without having to re-write their sites.
IE 9 first appeared publicly in a demo at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in November.
"Our goal in building a great browser for consumers and for everyone is that they are Windows customers. That's at the core of it," said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer.