Microsoft rolls out Internet Explorer 9 at SXSW

Texas, Mar 15: The computer giant Microsoft rolled out its latest version of popular web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin.

Microsoft made revolutionary changes on the new Internet Explorer 9, which make it better and faster than the previous versions. Microsoft packed a simpler and attractive interface on the new IE9 and also supports HTML5.

Microsoft claimed that with advanced graphics card acceleration on IE9, users with low-end computers can enjoy heavy graphics animated images. The new IE9 web browser improves the site performance with better GPU and CPU acceleration.

The new Internet Explorer 9 has the ability to customize the websites it"s running. The dynamic icons on the browser makes web browsing more enjoyable and easy. The icons will blink to show the user about the status of the download. While the users logged in to their email sites, the icon will show the numbers of unread mails.

Other features of IE9 include support for CSS 3 properties, Tracking Protection, hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, ActiveX filter, hardware-accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware-accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline etc.

The new Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 supports 39 languages and is available for download at Microsoft's 'Beauty of the Web' website. This new web browser will be running on Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

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