Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 11 browser for Windows 7 on Thursday, providing a nominal speed boost versus IE10, including performance-enhancing technologies such as pre-rendering and pre-fetching.
Although users can automatically download a copy of IE11 (shown above) for Windows 7 from the Microsoft website, Microsoft said that it would automatically upgrade users over the next few weeks, beginning first with those running the Developer and Release Previews.Microsoft’s Inori Aizawa is the new Asian “anime personification” of Internet Explorer.
Overall, Microsoft claims that users who do so will see a 9 percent performance improvement versus IE10, which Microsoft claims is about 30 percent faster than competing browsers. IE11 ships with the new Chakra just-in-time Java compiler, designed to improve the performance of real-world websites, plus support for different components of the ECMAScript6 standard.
IE11 also offloads WebGL graphics processing onto the GPU, reducing CPU power consumption and improving performance. Microsoft also improved its compliance with Web standards, including processing HTML5 video without the need for plugins.
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