It’s looking to be a good Halloween for developers. Windows 7 share continues to climb, and as early as next month, IE9 on Windows 7 could be the leading modern browser behind IE8.  For developers this means that most Windows 7 users have a modern browser capable of running exciting, interoperable...

There is more choice than ever when it comes to browsers today. This is a fantastic thing and we believe that choice makes the web better for all of us. We build IE for customers who use Windows. IE9 is the browser designed to give Windows 7 customers the fastest, safest, and most private browsing experience...

Privacy is in the news again today.  Apparently, Google has been able to track users of Apple’s Safari browser while they surf the web on their Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs.  This type of tracking by Google is not new .  The novelty here is that Google apparently circumvented the privacy...

Browser market share numbers are always interesting because they can be interpreted in a variety of ways. We’ve said for some time now that the thing we care about most is that the web experiences we all enjoy are getting better every day through a modern browser like Internet Explorer 9. The growth...

Last month, we talked about how IE9 had surpassed IE8 as the number one browser on Windows 7 worldwide.  This month that trend continues with IE9 growing worldwide on Windows 7.  New HTML5 experiences like Cut the Rope continue to show consumers what they can expect from a modern browser like...

This month we hit some pretty important milestones in the IE business. IE9 has now passed 20% usage share worldwide on Windows 7 as of the last day of August. In the US, IE9 closed out the month at 28% share on Windows 7. IE9 was built to take advantage of the unique capabilities of Windows 7 and it’s...

Internet Explorer 9 continues its growth this month as more and more people are switching to the latest version of IE. As of the end of September, IE9 now holds 31% share on Windows 7 in the US. Worldwide, IE9 is 22% of all usage share on Windows 7. Source: Net Applications , September 2011...

March was a great month for the IE team.  We are thrilled with the response to our new television ad .  The Hunger Games Capitol Tour brought the silver screen to the web.  And, we even had a little fun looking back at just how far we have come with Internet Explorer. As March comes to...

Spring is in the air, and April proved to be another great month for the IE team.  In our continued efforts to support the HTML5 platform, we partnered with teen music artist Jasmine Villegas to launch an interactive music video , and also launched an online throwback to arcade games, based on the...

Yesterday was an incredible day for us here at Microsoft and on the IE team.  Not only did we announce the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview , we also introduced Platform Preview 5 of Internet Explorer 10.  As Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer engineering...

We’ve mentioned the IE9 features WordPress.com is utilizing in an earlier post , but the more we think about it, the more impressed we become. So, we want to dedicate some time discussing a really unique roll-out of pinning and dynamic Jump Lists with IE9 on Windows 7. As many of our readers know, WordPress...

We already had a pretty good idea about what the share numbers would look like for December on Friday, but wanted to just make sure everyone had the final data . No surprises here, IE9 continues to grow on Windows 7 worldwide as expected: Source: Net Applications , December 2011. And the US numbers looks...

With New Year’s Eve fast approaching, we wanted to give an early look at what we expect the share numbers to look like as we close out 2011, as well as take a look back at some of the top moments for the IE team this year. Last month we predicted that IE9 was on a path to be the number one modern browser...

On Friday, we mentioned that things were looking up for developers interested in building the latest set of web experiences for a modern browser like IE9. The good news for developers is that with IE9 at almost 35% share on Windows 7 in the US near the close of October - now 65% of all Windows 7 users...