Ryan Gavin, senior executive of Microsoft IE Business and marketing, Raien Gavin in Wednesday

Beijing time September 17, according to the British Science and Technology website TheRegister reports, Microsoft IE Business and Marketing senior director Raien Gavin (Ryan Gavin) made clear in Wednesday, Microsoft will not be introduced to support the Windows XP operating system IE9 browser. TheRegister that Microsoft's move undoubtedly left a space for rival products such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Microsoft announced in a media event held in San Francisco in Wednesday that it had released IE9 browser beta. Dean Hachamovitch, Dian Hachamovich general manager of Microsoft's IE department, said that in order to improve IE9 's speed, the product used HTML5 and other up-to-date network technology, and removed all unnecessary elements in the user interface.

Hachamovich also said that IE9 will make full use of graphics processors to achieve hardware acceleration purposes, at the same time will use the advantages of multi-core pc, so that IE9 can handle a number of tasks at the same time, "we will make full use of PC hardware advantages, so that IE9 users access to various types of Web sites in the process, can get very fluent browsing experience." ”

Microsoft said in Wednesday that netizens could download the IE9 beta. It is worth noting that IE9 is only available for Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. In other words, XP users are currently able to use the highest version of IE IE8.

Asked whether Microsoft would launch a IE9 issue that would support the XP system in the future, Gavin made it clear that Microsoft would neither add hardware acceleration to IE8 nor revise IE9 to run it in XP, "we will continue to refine the performance of IE9 in Windows 7." For XP users, IE8 can also bring them a good browsing experience. ”

Add new Features

From the information disclosed by Microsoft in Wednesday, IE9 has added many new features. For example, any Web page or tag that a IE9 user opens can be pinned to the user's computer taskbar and can be started like any other application to facilitate users ' quick browsing of different content on the site. IE9 can also monitor which plug-ins cause the browser to run slow overall and send a malicious software warning message to the user.

In addition, Microsoft and Amazon, CNN and other websites have reached a partnership. IE9 users in the future access to these partner sites, the browser button background color will change, making it with Amazon, CNN and other sites of the overall style more match. If a IE9 user fixed such a collaborative web site in the taskbar, the browser would pop up some customization options, such as creating a wish list, playing network music, and so on.

"The technologically advanced internet also needs to be supported by operating systems with the latest technology," Gavin said. He also said IE9 will provide users with the best Internet browsing experience by combining HTML5 technology with hardware acceleration.

Left to the opponent space

TheRegister that because Microsoft has ruled out the possibility of introducing XP version IE9 and will not add hardware acceleration to IE8, Google and Mozilla will be able to launch a hardware-accelerated Firefox and Chrome browser for XP users in the future.

Most industry insiders believe that one of the main aims of Microsoft's IE9 is to regain some "lost ground" from Firefox, Chrome and Apple Safari. The US internet traffic monitoring agency NET applications's previous statistics show that the current IE global market share has fallen from 74% to 60% from two years ago. Meanwhile, the corresponding market share of Firefox, Chrome and Safari has increased.