IE9 is Ready to Go

By  |  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 7:50 am

Last night here at SxSW, Microsoft officially rolled out the shipping version of Internet Explorer 9. It’s available here for download, and very much worth checking out if you use Windows 7 (or, gasp, Vista). More thoughts soon, but it’s the best version of IE in years–and its release means that every major Web browser is a solid product. (In fact, in many ways they’re remarkably similar: Everyone’s settled on nearly identical browsers.)

If you try IE9, let us know what you think…

 
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  1. Ryan Waddell Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 8:13 am

    Well, technically it's available here: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

  2. Bob Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Sorry for the accidental down vote – I meant to click the "up vote" and I can't change it now…

  3. Guest Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    I voted it back up to 0 for you.

  4. johnwbaxter Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 8:26 am

    I have (and like) IE9 (which I've been using in early forms for some time, off and on).

    Harry, you should visit Technologizer with tracking blocking turned on. (I've disabled it for the site.) At least if your personal collection of trackers is like mine, the site falls apart.

    (This will be the weapon of choice for the determined trackers, of course.)

  5. Kim Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Definitely encourage all to download and check out TRUSTe's Tracking Protection List here http://tracking-protection.truste.com/

  6. Wally SirFatty Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 9:48 am

    I know that everyone has different experiences, but Chrome has been rock solid for me… doubt I would ever go back to the grief that is IE.

  7. Paul Merrill Says:
    March 15th, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Browsing seems speedy now but load still takes a while. On my Win7 laptop, Chrome 10 seems to be better, starts faster and there seems to be little difference in the browsing. However, the Javascript speed is amazing, 458ms on IE9 versus 891ms for Chrome 10 using SunSpider 0.9.1!!!