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   EV>Does anyone in the echo use IE9?   
      
   EV>I'd like to read your comments about it, please, thank you.   
      
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   Together, Firefox and Chrome have captured somewhere between 30 and 40%   
   of the browser market, depending on the market research source.   
   Microsoft was able to halt the bleeding with an expensive and, in my   
   opinion, somewhat deceptive commercial campaign for IE8, but it is IE9   
   that will have to defend Microsoft against its rivals. Whether it will   
   be able to do that mainly boils down to the fact if it can shed the   
   rather negative perception of IE8 and whether it is good enough in   
   comparison to Firefox and Chrome, its key rivals that have their   
   crosshairs targeted at IE.   
      
   Whenever Microsoft comes out with a new browser, it has become a   
   tradition here to what would be the most useless new feature in IE.   
   Microsoft often invents new features that turn out to be baggage no one   
   cares for. That baggage may be Pin Tabs in IE9, which lets you treat   
   websites like applications. If you will, it goes a bit beyond the App   
   Tab concept in Firefox and Chrome. Google has played with putting   
   websites into applications icons back when Chrome was first released and   
   no really has cared about it since.  No one will care about it now.   
      
   Where Microsoft clearly dropped the ball is OS support and migration   
   flexibility. IE9 is a very moody and picky browser. Aside the fact that   
   Microsoft has no upgrade path for Windows XP users - which still account   
   for about 60% of PC users out there - IE6 remains a big barrier for IE9   
   to capture market share. Microsoft likes to still say that IE8 is still   
   the fastest growing browser in terms of market share, but IE8 is now 18   
   months old and it should have transitioned its user base a long time   
   ago. Stating it is the fastest growing browser isn't really a compliment   
   in that view.   
      
   My personal experience was not especially pleasing as IE9 strangely   
   refused to download under Vista and required a Windows 7 installation.   
   Microsoft has still a lot of work left to do and it would be clearly   
   well-advised if it extended the platform support of IE9. If there is a   
   downside to IE9, then it is this issue and it is extensive enough to   
   prevent IE9 from becoming the widely used browser it could be.   
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