Microsoft today made Internet
Explorer available to Windows 7 users, which means Microsoft’s 2nd newest
operating system now has browser parity with the newest, Windows 8.
Internet Explorer 10 was already available for download
if you happened to be up for using the developer preview release. All Windows 7
users will have the update pushed to their machines over the coming weeks,
putting everyone on an even keel as time progresses.
Apart from once again returning
Internet Explorer to an even release version number, IE10 features supposedly
improved JavaScript performance as well as better battery performance for those
using mobile machines – something that’s always welcomed by road warriors who
live in their browser when out and about.
Windows 7 users who upgrade to Internet
Explorer 10 will now be able to take advantage of built-in spell checking and
autocorrection as well as improved support for all the latest web standards.
This will hopefully stop Internet Explorer from grinding to a halt on certain
web pages that rely heavily on some of the new whizz-bang web.
Unfortunately, users of IE10 on
Windows 7 will not receive the same full screen view as their Windows 8 toting
counterparts, with this version of Microsoft’s web browser looking rather like
the previous version from the outside.
Internet Explorer was once the
browser of choice for Windows users, but with the likes of Firefox and more
recently, Google’s Chrome on the scene, IE has found itself at the bottom of
jokes rather than the icon given pride of place on the Windows desktop.
Poor releases, speed and security were the reasons for that change initially,
but improved releases of late have seen the once proud browser return to favor
for many. It’s certainly not bad to use at all, but we’re still big fans of
Google Chrome here at Redmond Pie. We know you all are, too.
Internet Explorer 10 is now available to
download for Windows 7, with 95 languages to choose from. You can download it
from here. [RedmondPie]
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