Internet Explorer 9 is admired by Google.

Microsoft's latest browser, IE9, won a lot of praise that it seemed impossible to get before. For example, Brian rakoski, Google's browser product manager, expressed appreciation for Microsoft's progress in Web browsers. "We welcome Microsoft's innovation and are very excited that IE9 can support more standards ." He admitted that Microsoft IE9 is ahead of Google in some fields, but promised that Google will add similar features to Chrome within a month or two.

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On Wednesday, Microsoft will release the beta version of IE9, the latest browser, and provide a public download test.

Fierce competition in the browser market

Currently, competition from Google Chrome and Firefox is driving a technological race in the browser market, which is somewhat similar to the "browser war" of Microsoft and Netscape in the past. According to Net Applications statistics, Google Chrome's global browser market share rose from 7.5% to 90%, while Microsoft dropped from more than 60%.

Microsoft tries to make the web page more like a program in the latest browser, and brings users faster response time and better webpage display and interaction methods. Microsoft is facing competition from Apple. With Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, Apple users can use network services through mobile apps connected to the Internet. In this way, users are more likely to obtain network services, especially on small mobile device screens. As a result, Apple may urge users to reduce their dependence on Web browsers.

IE9 "Blur" website and application boundaries

Dean Hachamovitch, vice president of Microsoft browser development, said, "IE9's design and technology blur the boundaries between websites and applications ."

Microsoft claims that IE9 is the first browser to directly use a computer graphics processor. By working with the CPU, "Hardware acceleration" will make the web page more like a program running on a machine. "In this way, the web page will be able to gain some strengths in local programs," hamamovich said ."

Hamamovich believes that by directly using a graphics processor, the image effect on the webpage will be greatly improved, and the webpage will be able to display more frames per second.

Another aspect that Microsoft appreciates is that it has added many support for advanced network standards in IE9. In the past, Microsoft was criticized by Google and the Internet industry for its slow operation to keep up with and support the latest network standards.

Insufficient motivation for Microsoft's network applications

However, Matt Rosoff, an independent research institute analyst at Directions on Microsoft, said Microsoft was not motivated to develop network applications, because Microsoft is still very dependent on traditional programs running directly on PCs.

He believes that, despite this, Microsoft still needs to address the challenges from Google to attract Chrome users to return to IE. This is particularly important in the context of Google's upcoming Chrome operating system's direct competition with Windows.