The IT Nerd

If you’ve been waiting for Microsoft’s latest and greatest web browser, you’ll be able to get it tonight at midnight tonight. All you have to do is surf to this website to get your copy. Now why should you download this? Here’s a three good reasons based on my time with a few of the betas and the release candidate:

• It has a clean and simple layout as well as a interesting UI.
• It’s faster. In fact, it feels as fast as the current speed champ Chrome.
• It has HTML5 support. Take that Apple!

There are other reasons such as security, multimedia via DirectX 11 intergration, and add ins that make it worth checking out as well. Just make sure you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Vista. XP users need not apply.

Give it a shot later tonight and post your thoughts about Microsoft’s latest browser below.

Are you interested in looking at a cutting edge browser not named Firefox? If so, Internet Explorer 9 in beta form has hit the streets. Those of you brave enough to use a beta product should hit the download link here. Those of you not brave enough to try it can read what IE 9 is all about here. The highlights are that it supports HTML5 and CSS3, and include pinned sites, which lets users pin a website directly to the taskbar. I should mention that this feature behaves differently under Windows 7 versus other supported OSes. There’s also hang protection which isolates tabs from each other. Finally Microsoft adds trusted downloads to combat malware.

Two things to note. IE9 will replace IE8 on your computer. But it can be uninstalled if required. Just in case, I’d have a good backup just in case. Also IE9 also does not support Windows XP. Another reason from Microsoft to run Windows 7.

If you’ve tried IE 9, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it.