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This is a remarkable turnaround. Microsoft, a company that, more than any other was responsible for the freezing of Web standards, first killing the browser competition, and then update your browser for five years, with the browser, that is-at least-decent.
Internet Explorer 9 combines a hardware-accelerated graphics with the compiler just-in-time for JavaScript and support for some of the new standards, which consists of HTML 5. Also de-cluttered user interface that appears close to the philosophy of Google Chrome: browser gets out of the way Web content or application.
It's not the best browser on Windows. Win every performance test, nor is its support for HTML 5, as extensive as in some browsers. Integration with Windows is strong, as you would expect, and its privacy controls are excellent. Microsoft also has some long-lasting trouble, such as the administration of the primitive downloading in previous versions. IE9 is a download manager, this means that users can easily find their downloads to finish. IE9 is generally good, that using a different Web browser is no longer a clear choice.
The interesting question is "Why"? Microsoft was simply so pissed off that expanded market share for IE that has decided its best efforts to reverse the trend? It is a strategic step unobtrusively to promote Bing search, Bing maps, Microsoft and other Internet services? Or Microsoft experienced a sudden transition to web standard religion?
Remember that the press briefing at Microsoft TechEd Europe around ten years go when asked about the future of IE. The answer I got was that Microsoft, in a position to deliver rich HTML experience users, requested that future investment should focus on the integration of applications with Web services.
A side effect, which Microsoft mentioned, would increase the Windows lock-in one of the reasons why Microsoft competed vigorously with Netscape in the 1990s was that concepts such as Netscape webtop, hosted a workspace browser, the host operating system threatened to neopomíjet. Beat Netscape, and then cold HTML Microsoft protect their application platform.
Today Microsoft has reversed its position and works to Firefox browser almost identical with the native application. Vice Dean Hachamovitch in IE9 Edition notification writes: "with IE9, consumers can keep your Web site to the center of their browsing, the PIN is on the main panel and the interaction with them as they make applications with hardware accelerated HTML5Vývojári can use the same markup across the browser to add a new class of Web experiencethat's more apps than servers. "
Microsoft is not primarily to support Bing or compete with Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. What makes more sense the company recognizes that it must have a wide range of platform alongside Windows succeed in diverse world of mobile devices, and increasing the number of Mac computers and that his efforts.NET and Silverlight are not capable of this wide range of platform.
It seems that in the IE team.NET. Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Seattle, Washington in the last year, Microsoft Articulated its Internet platform strategy, while hardly ever mentions the browser plugin Silverlight. Further evidence is that Microsoft has all but dropped support for the XBAP INTEGRATION, XAML browser applications Windows host with the desktop.NET Framework. XBAP INTEGRATION are currently disabled in the Internet zone by default and only work in Windows networks.
It may be significant that at the same time, when Microsoft became an advocate of HTML 5, Apple, randomly, or design, it updates its iOS mobile operating system in a manner that protects the benefits of the native application by disabling compiler just-in-time JavaScript for HTML 5 applications, which are held on the home screen.
Apple wins If developers focus their platform alone. Microsoft WINS if the developers focus on Windows only; But it is not a viable strategy, so it is better to promote common standards.
In a sense then Microsoft embrace HTML 5 is a sign of weakness, not strength. At the same time is a significant achievement and one that will increase the browser platform for the entire industry.
Microsoft's browser share may decline, but IE is still the most popular browser globally and will always be popular amongst the enterprise admins group because of its integration with a management tool for Windows. The appearance of the IE9 will be real change on the reach of modern browser hosted applications.
That said, Microsoft as a whole is not United on this issue. It's strange, for example, that the issue at the same time, the developer team has completed the IE9 Beta 2 for Visual Studio LightSwitch, which is designed for rapid development of database applications. LightSwitch goals of Silverlight, and while it's impressive product in a way, it would make sense if it built more HTML applications that run across multiple devices.
LightSwitch illustrates how it is hard to tell the Microsoft strategy. At the same time has several strategies. However, the initiation of the IE9 is crucial moment in the history of the company, leaning from pure clients and toward interdisciplinary Web standards. ®
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