Microsoft unveils Beta version of Explorer 9 to the Cebu market

CEBU, Philippines - Microsoft Philippines encourages technology savvy Cebuanos to avail of the Beta version of Internet Explorer 9, and discover the new experience offered by the world’s top technology trend setter.

Mae Moreno, Microsoft Philippines head for Windows product manager said that this new development is going to unlock the “beauty of the web” bringing one’s favorite site to the forefront.

The introduction of the new capabilities and enhancements of Windows Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) to the Cebu market followed the recent announcement of its worldwide beta availability.

The new browser delivers a fast, clean, trusted and interoperable online experience that takes full advantage of Windows 7, putting the focus on the sites and applications people care about.

Over 70 top websites and global brands that created new experiences to show off the capabilities of IE9 accompanied Microsoft during its launch.

Developers and designers from partners around the world demonstrated how they have used the capabilities of Internet Explorer 9 to tap into the power of the PC hardware, Windows 7, a new user experience, and support for modern standards such as HTML5 to create immersive sites that feel increasingly like native PC applications.

The IE9 will be commercially available early next year, and is targeting to tap at least 4,500 partner sites by then.

Users can now download the new Internet Explorer 9 Beta and experience many of these new sites at http://www.BeautyoftheWeb.com.

“Internet Explorer 9 uses the power of Windows and the whole PC to bring you a better Web,” said John Bessey, Managing Director, Microsoft Philippines.

“Together with our partners, we’re reaching out to over 800 million visitors to deliver a more beautiful Web to users across the globe,” he added.

Internet Explorer 9 has been re-architected to be the only Web browser to focus on bringing sites front and center through Windows 7, enabling a new class of experiences on the Web with partners such as Facebook, Red Bull GmbH, Quiksilver Inc., Rough Guides Ltd., eHow Inc., LiveStrong, Twitter, Dailymotion, the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Orbitz LLC, as well as top design studios such as Metia, Soleil Noir S.A.S. and Joshua Davis Studios.

The new version of Internet Explorer takes advantage of the power of modern PC hardware to improve all-around Web browsing performance.

This comprehensive approach to performance includes the introduction of a new scripting engine Chakra that uses common multi-core central processing units (CPUs) in PCs to deliver significant performance gains.

Internet Explorer 9 is also the first browser with full hardware acceleration of HTML5, harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU), reallocating much of the graphic processing to the GPU instead of the CPU.

By using the GPU, Internet Explorer 9 unlocks the 90 percent of the PC’s power that went previously untapped by Web browsers.