IE9, a part of Mircosoft’s revenage, is about to come in next month. As Microsoft IE blog announced that they will lanuch a early version of IE9 in March, 2010: http://duanwz.com/flvu
IE is becoming less and less popular in recent years. Partly because IE has monopolized the browser market since the first browser war. Microsoft has already given up to tie Windows system with IE in Europe, and let the users to choose which browser they want to use.
IE still has the biggest market share, about 62 per cent of total Internet users still use IE (included IE6. 7, 8 and other browsers which use the IE inner core, like The World Browser).
The reason is simple: most user don’t know the difference between IE and Internent. As Microsoft ties IE into Windows system, many people think there is only one browser in the world. Especially in China, many people refue to use other browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, just because they think IE is the borned browser in Windows, they don’t want any outcomers.
Another reason for them to use IE only, because many websites in China is runned only by IE. Other browsers may have a compatible problem. For those who don’t want to try other browser, is only need a update after IE9 comes up. So, they will say: why not?
But, will IE9 save the IE series? Hard to say so. Browser is a very viscous thing. If you are very used to IE, it is hard to use anther one suddenly. But if you have used different browsers, then you have a comparsion, you will know that IE is not the best browser. It is slow, unsafe and less fashionable. I like to use Firefox and Chrome, there is no way for me to come back again.
The main problem for IE is the inner core, it doesn’t support JavaScript well. When the website is going to be more complex, IE will become more and more slow. This time, Microsoft doesn’t want to change the inner core, but to have a hardware-acceleration. Looks like IE9 is only the temporary solution.
