What's in Store for Internet Explorer 9?

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8 was not quite the flop that Microsoft Windows Vista was, but it's close.

I was working on an older PC (Dell Dimension 2400) in the neighborhood of 6-7 years old and since I originally pulled it out of the box and configured it for this customer, it has been running flawlessly.  No check-ups needed for this long.  The other day I was running some cleanup routines and performing some general maintenance and tweaking, and after all the latest Windows Updates were installed, there was only one left...IE8.  We were running IE7 for a reason...it was an older machine and IE8 is a known resource hog and does not run well on older hardware -- unless you are loaded with or maxed out on RAM and have a SATA 3Gps hard drive.  This machine has neither....512MB of memory and an older IDE hard drive.  IE7 runs fine, assuming you have disabled all unnecessary add-ons and un-installed all those crazy toolbars that will install by default with a lot of popular software utilities.  The message here is to skip the IE8 "upgrade" if you have an older machine.  Run Google Chrome instead.

So what's in store for IE 9?  Let's just hope that speed was a main requirement, and that opening a new tab doesn't take 9 or 10 seconds!  Here's a CNET article on the plans for IE 9 Beta.

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