IE9: Good enough to beat Firefox and Chrome?
I remember when I broke up with Internet Explorer. Microsoft had let IE go to seed, with no significant updates in the five years after IE6 shipped in 2001.
A scrappy group of brilliant programmers, led by Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt, came up with a free program that supported -- shock! -- tabs inside the browser. Firefox started gaining street cred. Knocked out of its lethargy, in late 2006 Microsoft released IE7 (with -- shock! -- tabs inside the browser) and the Firefox team released Firefox 2. It took me all of two days to dump IE and start using Firefox, almost exclusively.
Fast forward four years and the Firefox folks have brought dozens of important new features to my desktop. I'm also using Chrome frequently, and it's even more innovative than Firefox. Simply brilliant. Meanwhile, Microsoft has brought a bunch of... uh... a bunch of... er... let me see if I can think of a single innovation I use that debuted with IE7 or IE8. I'll get back to you on that.
