Microsoft releases a series of statistics on the preview of the next major version of its Internet Explorer browser the company made available in mid-March, including download trends.
Microsoft has released a series of statistics on the preview of the next
major version of its Internet Explorer browser that the company made available
in mid-March, including download trends.
According to
published
reports, Microsoft has seen about 700,000 downloads of the
Internet
Explorer 9 Platform Preview since its release on March 16 at the MIX 2010
conference in Las Vegas. The United States
is the primary geographical region where the downloads have occurred, followed
by Brazil, India,
the United Kingdom,
Germany and Russia,
Microsoft said.
According to Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at
Microsoft, the company has seen 10 times the page views to the IE9
Test Drive site. Hachamovitch said as of week two,
traffic to areas of the Test Drive
site include 33 percent of traffic to speed demos, 27.4 percent to
graphics demos, 22.2 percent to HTML5 demos and 17.4 percent to benchmark
tests.
Moreover, Hachamovitch said the top three areas for bug reports are graphics
and SVG support, compatibility, and the Microsoft Trident layout engine and CSS
support.
The Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview features expanded support for
HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine.
Together, these allow developers to use the same markup and deliver graphically
and functionally rich Web applications that take advantage of modern PC
hardware through a modern operating system, Microsoft said.
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