Microsoft has introduced worldwide, including in Russia, the beta of Internet Explorer 9. And thus once again embarked on the path of browser-war.
At Moscow's presentation of the product general manager of the Department to promote consumer software and online products of the Russian representation of Microsoft Pavel Cherkashin said that the browser is gradually becoming one of the most important applications on your computer, its importance becomes commensurate with the importance of the operating system. And all because the browser has a "window" in the world of the Internet. After 10 years, most of the work on the computer will be done through the browser, which will become a tool of access to a variety of applications in the network. These changes are placing new demands on browsers.
According to the staff Microsoft, currently browsers provide a better or worse job with an Internet-based applications since they are just other people's programs running on my computer user. It is often used plugins. But when the connectedness of everything and all the users are asked for more speed, functionality and security of the Internet. These trends Microsoft tried to take into account when developing IE9, betting on speed, simplicity, security and standards.
With regard to the speed of the browser, then underneath Microsoft understands not only the time of loading a web page as support for complex graphic web applications and enabling them to work with such a response as if they were installed on the PC. To achieve these browser capabilities, the company decided through the use of a new JavaScript-engine Chakra, which is now integrated with the browser in a single system. In addition, IE9 the hardware acceleration capabilities HTML5, and to optimize the use of graphics hardware of computer resources.According to the company, "old" browsers used only about 10% of such resources, and "Nine" - much more. Also increased productivity in the browser should promote implemented in IE9 browser integration with OS.
According to Pavel Cherkashin, has a beta version of the browser shows the various "speed" test results, comparable to the latest version of the best current sites. Accordingly, in the final version IE9 company expects to get even better results.
To ensure ease of use Microsoft tried to solve the problem of attracting attention, in particular to the website, and not to the browser and its functions. For this, the company minimized the program interface. At the same time the browser was supplemented with new functionality: the possibility of consolidating the sites on the taskbar, access to common tasks without opening the browser on one screen Use multiple sites, etc.
In ensuring the safety of the Internet Microsoft supplemented IE9 download manager with integrated anti-malware and reputation downloads SmartScreen. Also in the beta version of the browser features have been included Add-on Performance Advisor (Administration downloading add-ons) and Hang Recovery (insulation broken tabs and automatic crash recovery).
About the technical features IE9 can talk a long time. Much whiter interesting were, for example, forecasts for the future Paul Cherkashina browser-based industries. According to him, a year or two in this market again begin a war of browsers, it will be filled with important and tragic events - Cherkashin said. - And Microsoft will be in the center of these events. "
Recall, this is not the first browser war. It is believed that first began in 1996 when Microsoft released Windows 95 OSR2, which included IE3. Then began the confrontation of the Microsoft browser and a Web browser Netscape Navigator. Then the victory was for IE, who took nearly 95% of the market. However, not all - developers Netscape Navigator before leaving the market released the source code browser licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public License). On the basis of the creation of new browsers Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox. The latter is gradually gaining popularity. In recent years, browsers themselves quite peacefully co-exist - often Internet users are working with two or even three browsers. This situation has not changed even enter the market browser to Google, which released the browser Chrome.
The reason for the resumption of browser-war Pavel Cherkashin called non-technical opportunities reviewers, and money. The money that's cool, particularly in the search industry, to which browsers can access. It is, for example, a function such as search, integrated with the address bar.
According to Pavel Cherkashin, the main opponent of the war IE9 to be browser-Chrome by Google. This statement, he explained that the confrontation mature products require very significant investment in their further development, and in their promotion. Do Microsoft and Google have those resources. "Battle" as potential developers of the same Firefox and Opera Cherkashin not known, but he is unlikely to be sufficient to complete the fight with Microsoft and Google.
