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Microsoft Announces Official Launch Of Internet Explorer 9 In Jordan And The Middle East
Published Mar 22, 2011
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Microsoft announced the launch of the latest version of the world’s most-used browser with the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 40 languages, including Arabic. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s most-downloaded browser beta of all time, with more than 40 million downloads, and it has already gained more than 2 percent usage on Windows 7.
“The best experience of the Web is on Windows with Internet Explorer 9,” said Muhammad Arrabi, Developer Platform Evangelist, Microsoft Jordan. “Today, the Web can unlock the power and performance of the best PC hardware through Windows and Internet Explorer 9. Websites also can act more like applications within Windows 7, with features such as Pinned Sites. In less than a year, Internet Explorer 9 went from early preview to final release with the help of hardware partners and the Web community.”
Already seven top sites from Jordan are taking advantage of the capabilities in Internet Explorer 9 to deliver differentiated experiences to their customers, and they include Maktoob, D1g, Jeeran, JordanWeather, Kharabeesh, Minihath and Shoofeetv.
Partners in Jordan are re-imaging their websites using the capabilities of Windows and Internet Explorer 9, creating new experiences that make the Web feel as native as PC applications. The result is a more beautiful Web experience.
“What I appreciate the most about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is the fact that it has been a continuous work in progress. With IE9’s new features, adoption of modern HTML5 techniques, and an accelerated experience – today, we are most definitely in store for a more beautiful web,” stated Fouad Jeryes , Chief Rascal, d1g.com
Internet Explorer 9 is designed to bring sites front and center through Windows 7, enabling a more immersive, more beautiful Web experience. Features such as Pinned Sites and JumpList enable people to put their websites directly on the Windows 7 Taskbar, as though they were native applications, and then
to quickly and easily perform tasks related to those websites, such as check their inbox, change the music station, accept a friend invitation or see breaking news.
“What people care about on the Web is their sites, not their browser. That’s why Internet Explorer 9 is about making those sites shine. The browser is the theater and the sites people visit are the play, and that is what Internet Explorer 9 makes better — your favorite sites,” added Arrabi.
The new version of Internet Explorer takes advantage of the power of modern Windows PC hardware to improve all-around Web browsing performance. The only browser with fully hardware-accelerated HTML5, Internet Explorer 9 harnesses the power of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), unlocking 90 percent of the PC’s power that went previously untapped by Web browsers.
With Internet Explorer 9, developers can now build faster, more immersive websites that feel like native applications using interoperable HTML5 or by using plug-ins such as Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight, both of which will take advantage of the hardware acceleration in Internet Explorer 9 in their next versions.
Because the Web is increasingly less secure and private, Internet Explorer 9 is designed to be the most trusted browser because it contains a robust set of built-in security, privacy and reliability technologies that keep customers safer online. Therefore, Microsoft introduced Tracking Protection in Internet Explorer 9, which puts people in control of what data they are sharing as they move around the Web, by enabling consumers to indicate what websites they’d prefer not to exchange information with.
Malware is now the No. 1 risk to people’s security online, and Internet Explorer 9 provides the first Download Manager with integrated SmartScreen malware protection. The browser also introduces SmartScreen download reputation, a groundbreaking browser feature that uses reputation data to remove unnecessary warnings for well-known files and show more severe warnings when the download has a higher risk of being malicious. Studies show that Internet Explorer 9 blocks 99 percent of socially engineered malware attacks, five times more than Firefox and 33 times more than Chrome.
More information about Internet Explorer 9 can be found at www.jamalalnet.com
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