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“Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, marked the public release of a test version of Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco,” Bass reports. “The software offers support for HTML 5 technology and loads pages faster.”
“Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market has fallen to 60 percent from 74 percent about two years earlier, as Firefox, Chrome and Safari gain ground, according to Net Applications,” Bass reports. “With Chrome usage up sevenfold, Microsoft needs to ensure that users keep their focus on the Windows operating system, rather than run programs through Google’s browser, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a research firm in Kirkland, Washington… Market share for Firefox, made by Mozilla Corp., rose to 23 percent last month from 19 percent about two years earlier, according to Net Applications, which tracks Internet usage statistics. Chrome jumped to 7.5 percent from 1.1 percent, and Safari climbed to 5.2 percent from 2.8 percent.”
Bass reports, “Internet Explorer’s HTML 5 support delivers high-quality video playback faster and lets users do things like open a virtual book and flip through its pages. The set of technologies may eventually replace Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash and Microsoft’s competing Silverlight, Rosoff said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Mac users spared once again, thankfully, but keep promoting HTML5, Derivativesoft!
The best Mac browser is Safari 5.
I am also not going the Chrome route. Until Google behaves less like Microsoft, there is no way I’m stepping up to use Google any more than I have to.
Safari is a delight as far as I’m concerned.
@Decodering,
Those IP addresses are for OpenDNS, a truly outstanding DNS system. I use it in work and it absolutely improves performance. It also protects against phishing attacks and gives excellent statistics (sites visited, sites blocked etc.) and also allows you total control over domain blocking.
Funny, I remember a few months ago going to a breakfast seminar for an M$ IT provider, and they were trying to sell a myopic DNS solution that didn’t even do half the things OpenDNS does for free! It cost a fortune, and when I asked what the benefits of their system compared to OpenDNS, they had no answer.
A great DNS system, I always recommend it.
The killer feature in Firefox is “live bookmarks”. I simply cannot live without it. And it’s this, plus few hundreds add-ons you can tweak on FF that has keep me from using Safari in a constant basis… COME ON APPL! give me some live bookmarkies to my Safari!
iE? do ppl still actually use that crappy browser?! geez~!
MS needs to work more on browser security and less on marketing their pos products.
I only use ms at work because I’m forced to.
I’m the cad/cae/disaster recovery admin and I keep messing with the ms admins to switch to Mac.
It’s good fun…
What’s not good fun is re-staging workstations because some idiot went somewhere he shouldn’t have and infected his machine!
Come on Apple, you’re on the right track with NX and Autocad. Can’t you get PTC, Catia, and the others on board?
Can you imagine cad tools on a 27 inch top of the line iMac?
So, IE’s market share “has fallen to 60 percent from 74 percent about two years earlier …” Steve Ballmer, you see a problem yet? Could be just the 50% to 75% of college students that have MacBooks and iPod touch devices now that don’t use your crap! Could be that people know a turd when they see it.
There is still no support at all for HTML5 video in IE9 beta. (and no flash support either).
After using this demo, I still have no idea what is going to happen when people go to my HTML5 video sites using IE9.
I’ll admit this beta does have a nice UI and a high acid-3 score, but it completely fails at what I as a developer need it to do: test websites with HTML5 video.
Embracing HTML5. Step 1 in the traditional Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish. It’s what they’re still trying to do to OpenGL with DirectX.
YAWWWWWWNNNNN
I didn’t know that there still were any people using that bloated piece of crapware.
Microsoft at it’s innovative best, churning out dinosaur software that people stopped using decades ago.
Only reason Chrome crap else is that Google is pitching it all over the web, especially of youbsirf around with IE.
The icon looks like a stupid toy for children … Time fir google to grow up.
Break out the Acid Test!!!
And, no, not the Electric Kool-Aid kind.