Microsoft Overwhelmed by Initial Response to IE9 Beta
Microsoft Overwhelmed by Initial Response to IE9 Beta
Posted 09/21/2010 at 5:02pm
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Microsoft says it's overwhelmed and humbled by the initial response to Internet Explorer 9 Beta. It has released some figures to quantify the “early customer enthusiasm.” According to the Redmond-based company, IE9 Beta had been downloaded over two million times by the end of the second day. Internet Explorer 8 Beta, which was launched in August, 2008, pales in comparison as it could only garner 1.3 million downloads in the first five days.
Microsoft's Roger Capriotti cited other encouraging statistics while writing on the Windows Team Blog: “We’ve seen 9 million visits and over 26 million page views to the Beauty of the Web site since its release last week, and our developer-focused IE Test Drive Site has had 4 million page views since last Wednesday.”
“All in all, we are encouraged about the very early response to the IE9 release this past week, namely because it signals that the emphasis on making websites shine through Windows is resonating. We are looking forward to more and more partners building great experiences through Internet Explorer 9 to deliver a more beautiful web,” Capriotti wrote in a blog post.
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BAMT
September 26, 2010 at 12:40pm
Look at the table at http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/ and pretend the IE9 column isn't there. MS actually admits IE sucks (sucked?) ass.
Keith E. Whisman
September 21, 2010 at 10:39pm
IE9 is actually pretty cool. I actually like it and I hope it only gets better. I like the interface, and speed.
I currently use Chrome, Firefox, IE9Beta, and Lunascape. Sometimes I find a website that just doesn't work right and I end up having to go through my browsers until the site works properly.
Hell Chrome, for a while would crash just visiting the home page for my college. http://www.gccaz.edu Firefox and IE worked just fine. Everything seems to be fixed now.
For my education websites, Firefox seems to be the only one that is completely compatible with all my online school work.
The software engineers at MS deserve a pat on the back, they have been bringing it on a daily basis. Windows 7 and IE9 are great.
BTW I've located a copy of MSN Explorer from 2002 that I had backed up on a CD. I'm going to go ahead and see if it'll install into Winows 7 Home Premium 64bit and see if I can browse the web with it.
dougau
September 21, 2010 at 7:08pm
Microsoft overwhelmed and humbled? By Apple maybe but IE9? what a joke
Larzs13
September 21, 2010 at 6:43pm
IT's for the avg. user so it needs not apply to those whom know better. Well thats all I have got to say about that.
k11k
September 21, 2010 at 6:18pm
Tried it, but since it still beta I only tried for couple day and unistall it. I don't have any issues with the layout, speed was better on some of my fav website, didn't see any real improvement with the render on gpu, but it was the same with firefox, will wait till it's a finish product. Still more room for improvement.
Greg4422
September 21, 2010 at 5:49pm
Yes and how many un-installs? Because I downloaded it, it was on my PC all of 10 minutes before I determined IE 9 is a POS, whose layout doesn't make any type of sense at all. It's obvious they made changes merely for the sake of being different and not better functionally or performance... however it is beta let’s hope they fix it before final release
TechLarry
September 23, 2010 at 9:39am
The Ribbon interfact has been the biggest destroyer of productivity since... hmmm.... Apple OpenTransport 1.01 (I'm doing an age check on peeps there :))
I will admit. As much as I still think the ribbons are productivity suckers (as do my users), Office 2010 has them about as right as they can be. You can at least modify them and create your own. Like one big one with ALL the options you used to see LOL
Office 2007 is a productivity disaster though. Thank god it looks like it will be short lived around here.
bikerbub
September 21, 2010 at 5:16pm
until the next major version, i'll pass. i already went 2 horrid days without internet thanks to ie9 beta.
Keith E. Whisman
September 21, 2010 at 10:31pm
How? What happened? I haven't heard anyone have the same problems you had. I'm using it and I actually like it, it's a beta but I haven't had so much as a crash with it.
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