Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9, seems to have little to say about Microsoft. It doesn't even say "Internet Explorer" anywhere on the browser.
Microsoft has trimmed the fat off the glassy browser frame, creating مزید on-screen playground for Web developers to stretch out on.
It's clear Microsoft has made some major development changes to bring back the millions of Web users who have been lured away سے طرف کی Mozilla Firefox, a competitor that has whittled Internet Explorer's share from مزید than 90 percent to 57 percent of the market.
Microsoft released the new browser Monday night in an event at the South سے طرف کی Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It's available for free download at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
While Microsoft still is the most مقبول browser, Mozilla now has 22 percent of the market with Firefox, Google has 11 percent with Chrome, and سیب, ایپل has 6 percent with Safari, according to research firm Net Market Share.
Computer users spend مزید time in the browser than any other application on the PC, and it will become an even مزید important chess piece as users اقدام toward بادل computing. The browser, after all, is the gateway to بادل computing.
"I still view the browser as the main portal to the بادل and what we think of as the access point, where we're going in the future, how we consume information and how we consume documents," کہا Lee Nicholls, director of global solutions at Getronics, the IT services branch of KPN.
"If آپ look at what Microsoft is doing itself with the اگلے generation of Office, آپ see مزید and مزید things that have one foot on the desktop and one foot in the cloud."
Cloud-based software that used to run on the desktop computer now runs as services on the browser, such as customer-relationship management (CRM), expense management and data reporting.
"If I have to look at a status رپورٹ off a SQL server یا off a database یا a CRM application, why can't I just access it from a browser?" کہا Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm in Kirkland.
"It still comes down to their (Microsoft's) fear that Windows will become irrelevant. It's now become a dual-pronged threat. The first threat is browsers and the سیکنڈ threat is operating systems like (Apple's) iOS," چیری, آلو بالو said.
At Monday's launch, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch said, "We want browsing to be a great experience so people keep choosing Windows to do it."
Cloud-software companies like Full Armor are also using the browser as the front door to the cloud. The company uses the browser to deploy Web applications, to run hybrid بادل applications that run both on the browser and in Microsoft's video download software Silverlight, and as the pathway to download بادل apps onto the PC.
"It's a great initial medium to get to the بادل because you've got such a wide reach if آپ just make the browser the access point," کہا Danny Kim, chief technology officer of Full Armor.
The line between the browser and the operating-system environment is blurring with the new generation of browsers.
Internet Explorer 9 supports the new Web standards HTML5, which allows for richer, مزید animated websites that feel like applications.
Internet Explorer takes advantage of PC hardware with hardware-acceleration, which uses the PC's graphics chip to run graphics on the Web.
Forty million people have downloaded the beta and release-candidate test versions of IE9 since September, Microsoft said.
Microsoft has also built مزید Windows features into IE9, including the ability to pin sites to the bottom toolbar. The pinned sites can then be right-clicked for website options.
A major hurdle is that IE9 does not run on the older Windows XP operating system, which will how many people will adopt the new browser.
The other challenge is the rapid growth in browser use on non-PC devices, such as Android smartphones and iPad tablets.
Internet Explorer 9 will not have a mobile version of its browser ready until later this سال at an unspecified تاریخ and only for Windows Phone 7.
The company also has not کہا anything about building a browser for iPad یا Android tablets.
"Where IE9 is really absent is in the tablet and mobile-device space," Nicholls said. "That's where they might get hurt."
Microsoft has trimmed the fat off the glassy browser frame, creating مزید on-screen playground for Web developers to stretch out on.
It's clear Microsoft has made some major development changes to bring back the millions of Web users who have been lured away سے طرف کی Mozilla Firefox, a competitor that has whittled Internet Explorer's share from مزید than 90 percent to 57 percent of the market.
Microsoft released the new browser Monday night in an event at the South سے طرف کی Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It's available for free download at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
While Microsoft still is the most مقبول browser, Mozilla now has 22 percent of the market with Firefox, Google has 11 percent with Chrome, and سیب, ایپل has 6 percent with Safari, according to research firm Net Market Share.
Computer users spend مزید time in the browser than any other application on the PC, and it will become an even مزید important chess piece as users اقدام toward بادل computing. The browser, after all, is the gateway to بادل computing.
"I still view the browser as the main portal to the بادل and what we think of as the access point, where we're going in the future, how we consume information and how we consume documents," کہا Lee Nicholls, director of global solutions at Getronics, the IT services branch of KPN.
"If آپ look at what Microsoft is doing itself with the اگلے generation of Office, آپ see مزید and مزید things that have one foot on the desktop and one foot in the cloud."
Cloud-based software that used to run on the desktop computer now runs as services on the browser, such as customer-relationship management (CRM), expense management and data reporting.
"If I have to look at a status رپورٹ off a SQL server یا off a database یا a CRM application, why can't I just access it from a browser?" کہا Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm in Kirkland.
"It still comes down to their (Microsoft's) fear that Windows will become irrelevant. It's now become a dual-pronged threat. The first threat is browsers and the سیکنڈ threat is operating systems like (Apple's) iOS," چیری, آلو بالو said.
At Monday's launch, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch said, "We want browsing to be a great experience so people keep choosing Windows to do it."
Cloud-software companies like Full Armor are also using the browser as the front door to the cloud. The company uses the browser to deploy Web applications, to run hybrid بادل applications that run both on the browser and in Microsoft's video download software Silverlight, and as the pathway to download بادل apps onto the PC.
"It's a great initial medium to get to the بادل because you've got such a wide reach if آپ just make the browser the access point," کہا Danny Kim, chief technology officer of Full Armor.
The line between the browser and the operating-system environment is blurring with the new generation of browsers.
Internet Explorer 9 supports the new Web standards HTML5, which allows for richer, مزید animated websites that feel like applications.
Internet Explorer takes advantage of PC hardware with hardware-acceleration, which uses the PC's graphics chip to run graphics on the Web.
Forty million people have downloaded the beta and release-candidate test versions of IE9 since September, Microsoft said.
Microsoft has also built مزید Windows features into IE9, including the ability to pin sites to the bottom toolbar. The pinned sites can then be right-clicked for website options.
A major hurdle is that IE9 does not run on the older Windows XP operating system, which will how many people will adopt the new browser.
The other challenge is the rapid growth in browser use on non-PC devices, such as Android smartphones and iPad tablets.
Internet Explorer 9 will not have a mobile version of its browser ready until later this سال at an unspecified تاریخ and only for Windows Phone 7.
The company also has not کہا anything about building a browser for iPad یا Android tablets.
"Where IE9 is really absent is in the tablet and mobile-device space," Nicholls said. "That's where they might get hurt."
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd today announced the availability of Internet Explorer 9 in 93 additional languages, including 11 Indian regional languages.
The Indian regional languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
With this launch, a wider audience base will have access to Internet Explorer 9 in their native language.
"The availability of Internet Explorer 9 in Indian regional languages is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to promote local language computing in India, thereby taking IT to the masses," the firm کہا in a statement.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft has had a presence in India since 1990. Currently, it has offices in 13 cities--Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.
The Indian regional languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
With this launch, a wider audience base will have access to Internet Explorer 9 in their native language.
"The availability of Internet Explorer 9 in Indian regional languages is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to promote local language computing in India, thereby taking IT to the masses," the firm کہا in a statement.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft has had a presence in India since 1990. Currently, it has offices in 13 cities--Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.