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Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the boardwalk-and-park-place dept.

cgriffin21 writes "Microsoft expected Internet Explorer 9 to be popular, but after more than two million people downloaded the IE9 beta in the first two days after its release, the software giant is having a hard time choosing which eye-popping statistics to cite. Microsoft says its "Beauty of the Web" site, which illustrates the aesthetic advantages of IE9's support for HTML5 and hardware acceleration, has had more the 9 million visits and 26 million page views since the IE9 beta launch on Sept. 15. Microsoft's developer-oriented IE Test Drive Site has had 4 million page views during the same period."

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  1. Re:IE 9 is actually good? by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Addons and/or Flash probably or perhaps just a bad install. Pages with Flash also have display glitches. Not sure if it's Flash or the renderer not handling there being Flash on the page well.

  2. Re:Good to see by idamaybrown · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone uses Opera? Well, it's at least more popular than Sleipnir....

  3. Re:I can only assume by Sarten-X · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll admit it when it's true.

    I find Windows 7 to be thoroughly mediocre. Sure, it's got a lot of shine, but it's broken a few of my old programs, and doesn't offer anything new and useful to me.

    I find .NET to be thoroughly abominable. It's a forced-standard version of the Windows API, working in the Windows way, and requiring distribution headaches to get applications to run anywhere. Don't even get me started on XNA. C# is a mockery of language design, where the statement "x = x;" can do absolutely anything, and it's not obviously magic.

    I guess I just feel that Microsoft was once riding on its high horse, then it got distracted and fell off. Now it's in the process of dusting off, and perhaps someday it'll ride again. Meanwhile, everyone else has gone on ahead.

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  4. What's the deal about IE9 by AlgorithMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I missing something here? since when is "utilizing more hardware" equivalent to "improving your performance"? Yes it will be faster than IE8, but at the expense of your other applications' performance...

    A lousy rendering engine stays a lousy rendering engine, even if you artificially improve it's speed by giving it more hardware!

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