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Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 Review Microsoft, the software giant is going to release its latest browser Internet Explorer 9, this news triggered a wide discussion in the internet market. Microsoft released a developer’s version of the browser to give a glimpse of its new state of the art browser. In this article we would discuss in detail various features of this upcoming browser. Windows Internet Explorer   formerly   Microsoft Internet Explorer , is a series of   graphical   web browsers   developed by   Microsoft   and included as part of the   Microsoft Windows   line of   operating systems   starting in 1995. It has been the   most widely used   web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95%   usage share   during 2002 and 2003 with   IE5   and   IE6. Since its peak of popularity, Internet Explorer's   usage share   declined in the face of renewed competition from other web browser...

Which is the best browser?

Browser Wars Which is the best browser for me? This simple question had become the Schrödinger equation of the internet world we live in. The truth is that the word ‘best’ is relative, a browser or any software that is best for me may be the worst of its kind for someone else. In this article, on the basis of performance, security and reliability we would try to find the answer of this complex question. Background: The   World Wide Web   is an Internet-based hypertext system invented in the late 1980s and early 1990s by   Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser World wide Web, later renamed Nexus, and released it for the   NeXT step   platform in 1991. By the end of 1992 other browsers had appeared, many of them based on the libwww   library. These included   UNIX   browsers such as   Line-mode,   ViolaWWW, Erwise   and   MidasWWW, and   MacWWW/Samba for the Mac. This created choice between browsers and he...