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IE 11 Getting WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools

Posted by Soulskill on from the growing-up dept.

rescendent writes sends this report about new features in Internet Explorer 11: "Microsoft released Windows Server ("Blue") to MSDN subscribers today, ahead of the BUILD conference later this week in San Francisco. The build provides us a number of clues as to what we will see in the official Windows 8.1 (Blue) preview. The server build number is 9341, the Windows 8.1 preview build will be: 6.3.9431.winmain_bluemp.130615-1214. IE11 scores 351/500 + 2 bonus point, and 25/25 for WebGL. Since this is a server build, the score may be a little higher than IE11 on Win 8.1, but this confirms WebGL for IE11. IE11 WebGL Conformance Test Results: 14,748 of 20,509 tests pass (71.9%). Many things seen in the Server 2012 R2 preview will also show up in the Windows 8.1 preview."

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  1. Quite advanced for Microsoft by antifoidulus · · Score: 0, Troll

    By 2014 they will be caught up to where other browsers were in 2011, for Microsoft that's pretty impressive. Usually IE is about half a decade behind real browsers.

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  2. Server build by Bert64 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why would the score be higher for a server build? What use would a server have for a web browser? Surely they should be making more effort on the client version of the browser, where it might actually be used?

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  3. Re:Obligatory by Vanderhoth · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about, windows 8 is an even stupider idea on a server than it is for a desktop?

    You know for a little variety.

  4. Windows XP still 20%...and again unsupported by tuppe666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know supporting XP is against two (different?)major strategies; Selling people on Microsoft's stupid everything is a tablet so we are winning(the new strategy of copying Apple), and the old we are Monopoly, buy a new version by crippling(discontinue) the old version so we can can roll around in cash(The old strategy when they were called Micro$oft).

    Ignoring problems from fragmentation, and support...and it holding back the web for many years, or how Microsoft basically won against the United States by building IE into the OS (a partially successful strategy for them). Google has started separating its first party Applications from the underlying OS(in Android) by giving its users a great internet experience.

    I notice that chrome continues to rise in usage as Internet Explorer continues to Dive(Firefox too, but for different reasons)

    These graphs say it all http://www.w3counter.com/trends.