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Microsoft racks up 2.35m IE9 downloads in 24 hours

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 March 2011, 09:16

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Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35m times in the 24 hours following its release on Monday night.

Bringing its browser right up to date, IE9 features a Chrome-like user interface, super-fast Javascript engine, tear-off tabs for integration with Windows 7 (nice), and hardware-accelerated text, video and graphics.

We've had a little play with it and it does seem more responsive than previous versions, though this one's limited to Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft provides a run-through of the features here, and you can download the 32- and 64-bit versions here.

Let us know what you think, too.

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Posted by BigYoSpeck - Thu 17 Mar 2011 10:12
Wow, 2m+ people downloading their backup browser :)

Because lets face it, people tech savvy enough to be this quick off the block are not primary IE users, they are FF, Chrome and Opera users who probably had the IE9 RC installed anyway and are just updating their backup.

Besides Firefox 3 did 8m :)
Posted by miniyazz - Thu 17 Mar 2011 10:14
It would've been 2.350001 if I'd known about it :p
Posted by bob3406 - Thu 17 Mar 2011 11:50
BigYoSpeck
Wow, 2m+ people downloading their backup browser :)

Because lets face it, people tech savvy enough to be this quick off the block are not primary IE users, they are FF, Chrome and Opera users who probably had the IE9 RC installed anyway and are just updating their backup.

Besides Firefox 3 did 8m :)

But the question is, why are people downloading IE9 as a backup browser in the first place… ;)

I'm exactly the kind of person you are describing. I've used Chrome since day one of it's beta release back in 2008! However, recently Chrome 10 has been so unstable! Flash crashes every 20 mins, downloads keep freezing and it's generally just doesn't feel as fast at starting up and loading pages as it used to be…

I never thought the day would come… but I've gone back to IE for my main browser! :O
Posted by spoon_ - Thu 17 Mar 2011 13:21
Flash crashing is almost unheard of - it must be your browser!

What's shocking here is lack of Windows XP support given that 90% of Windows desktops are running XP…

Microsoft are clearly trying to push people towards the latest and greatest OS no matter how bad it is.
Posted by Saracen - Thu 17 Mar 2011 13:31
spoon_
Flash crashing is almost unheard of - it must be your browser!

What's shocking here is lack of Windows XP support given that 90% of Windows desktops are running XP…

Microsoft are clearly trying to push people towards the latest and greatest OS no matter how bad it is.
Perhaps, but a slightly less cynical view is that MS have already made clear, years ago, that XP support was limited or ceasing altogether, and that their revenue streams were going to be Vista/W7, so it's not too surprsiing that they don't put resources into what they regard as a legacy product. What business does?

And, after all, XP still works with IE the way it did, it just hasn't moved forward at all. If that 90% (or whatever it is) were using XP before, nothing has changed. And if they want a more up-to-date and maintained browser, well, dump IE altogether and go Firefox, Opera, etc. Oh, and that category (XP users) includes me, on all but one machine, by the way. But I'm not convinced, regarding W7, that “how bad it is” really is fair. It seems pretty good to me, and certainly better than Vista ever was (IMHO, of course).

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