Microsoft announced on September 15th the beta availability of Internet Explorer browser. IE 9.0 has supposedly everything a browser did not have all these years - support all CSS 3 selectors, border-radius CSS 3 property, improved JavaScript performance, and embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System. It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline.IE 9 is available in both 32 and 64 bit versions and was initially thought to be OS agnostic.
The catch however is that IE 9 works only with Windows 7 or Windows Vista SP2 (with Platform Update and IE8) Windows XP is not supported and most of us are on Win XP SP3 and we all know how successful Vista is. Surely some typical Microsoft strategy at work here Huh..
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