In less than a year, Internet Explorer 9 went from early preview to final release with the help of hardware partners and the Web community.’

Websites also can act more like applications within Windows 7, with features such as Pinned Sites. ‘Today, the Web can unlock the power and performance of the best PC hardware through Windows and Internet Explorer 9. ‘The best experience of the Web is on Windows with Internet Explorer 9,’ said Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president, Windows Internet Explorer, at Microsoft. The browser will draw on the power of the PC’s graphics card to speed up load times, putting it in good stead to cope with the ever-richer sites that HTML 5 will bring. Microsoft claim that IE9 will outpace the opposition thanks to its use of the new HTML 5 coding language and hardware acceleration. They are then accessed with one click, saving the need for typing in the URL. The Pinned Sites feature, meanwhile, enables popular destinations to be dragged into a task bar at the bottom of the screen. It also incorporates a ‘do not track tool’, which means users can surf the internet without their movements being monitored.

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