The Platform Preview is an early look into the Internet Explorer 9 platform so some features are incomplete, some may change and some may be added. Recently, Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 reaches Platform Preview 4. Developers and early adopters should download Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Platform Preview 4 and take the release out for a spin. You will be able to discover that the latest Build deliver enhanced performance, with a new best score in the WebKit SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, and better web standards support, scoring a high of 95 out of 100 in the Acid3Test.

“The fourth Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now, shows the opportunity of fully hardware-accelerated HTML5. You can run new test drive samples that show modern SVG and native JavaScript integration in action. In March, we promised to deliver platform preview releases approximately every eight weeks. With this installment, you will find more performance and more support for same markup. You’ll also find many fixed to issues reported in previous Platform Previews,” revealed Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager.

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Less than a month ago, we posted that about 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second with 150 million licenses sold since launch. Recently, Microsoft announced the record fourth-quarter revenue thanks to the strong demand for Windows 7. So, now at around 10 copies of Windows 7 is sold every second with 175 million licenses sold since launch. The company is projected to sell 300 million by the end of 2010.

According to Neowin “Windows 7 is now running on 16% of all PCs around the world and is expected to over-take Windows Vista in market share within the next few weeks. Not only is Windows 7 a huge success, but Microsoft has seen a big uprising of Internet Explorer 8 use, which is still the most popular web browser on the market.”

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Microsoft Gulf today announced that Mashreq, one of the leading financial institutions in the region, is promoting Internet Explorer 8 in its effort to help customers protect their personal information online against growing cyber threats and phishing schemes.

Mashreq website has a monthly average of 798, 000 unique visitors generating just about 1.4 million page views per month. According to a recent security report commissioned by Microsoft, cybercrime is increasing and becoming more sophisticated with financial gain as the key motivator. IE 8′s enhanced security features with 24×7 support gives users better control and helps prevent fraudulent activities online.

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Today, Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 for developers that includes a number of major new features. The Platform Preview is an early look at the Internet Explorer 9 platform so some features are incomplete, some may change, and some may be added.

According to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager – Internet Explorer”The third Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now, continues the deep work around hardware acceleration to enable the same standards-based markup to run faster. This is the latest installment of the rhythm we started in March, delivering platform preview releases approximately every eight weeks and listening to developers. You’ll see more performance, same markup, and hardware accelerated HTML5.”

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Microsoft Gulf today announced that Nahel.com, UAE’s fastest growing online shopping website has opted for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in efforts to further improve its customer’s online shopping experience in the region. Improvement in performance and new features including Instant Search Box, Web Slices, Accelerators, SmartScreen Filter, InPrivate Browsing and Domain Highlighting gives Nahel.com a competitive edge whereby its customers can have a more secure, reliable, faster and richer experience when shopping online.

Nahel.com has customized IE8′s unique feature-’Web Slice’ to include live and up-to-date information for its ‘Deal of the Day’ segment, that gives customers the ability to look for great offers without the need to visit the nahel.com website. Another popular feature of IE8 is ‘Accelerators’ that enable users to quickly look up a particular item without having to visit the actual website – example a user who is reading reviews of a product on any website, can simply highlight the product name, click on the Accelerator icon that appears next to the highlighted text and quickly get the available listings from Nahel.com.

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Microsoft Visio 2010 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0 through Visio 2010) inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer (versions 5 through 8 ) Web browser. By using Microsoft Visio 2010 Viewer, Visio users can freely distribute Visio drawings and diagrams to team members, partners, customers, or others, even if the recipients do not have Visio installed on their computers.

Visio Viewer enables users to discover the advantages of using Visio drawings, charts, and illustrations in a Web-based environment. Visio Viewer is particularly useful for teams that need to collaborate from different locations.

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Recently Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer said on the Internet Explorer blog that HTML5 will be the future of the web and that Internet Explorer would only support H.264 for its video tag.

He said “H.264 is an industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support. Because of this standardization, you can easily take what you record on a typical consumer video camera, put it on the web, and have it play in a web browser on any operating system or device with H.264 support”

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According to a recent independent study, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been found to be the most secure browser currently available in the market. The study, which was conducted by security research company, NSS Labs revealed that IE 8 was the most successful browser in blocking various phishing and malware attacks as compared to Apple Safari 4; Firefox 3.5; Google Chrome 4 and Opera 10.

As per the findings, IE 8 caught 85% of live threats and surpassed Apple’s Safari 4 by a 56% margin. Till date, IE 8 has blocked over 350 million online threat attempts since its release in March 2009. In addition, Internet Explorer 8 also holds more than 62.12% of the global browser market share.

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Uptill now, we only evaluated Internet Explorer 9 Preview build but Chinese page purportedly features a couple of leaked screenshots of IE9′s new GUI. I personally feel that these are just mock interfaces as it look quite similar to the twitter client by istartedsomething.

According to neowin, “The general design is reminiscent of the new Windows Phone 7, with a clean, angular look and graphics that are “cut” on the edge of the window (like that back button in the top-left corner). Even if it’s just a mock-up, it’s still quite impressive, and an interesting break from what we’ve come to know from Firefox, Chrome and Opera, not to mention previous versions of IE.”

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Tell us who you are?
My name is Soumow ATITALLAH; I am 23 years old, a computer engineering student; serious and very motivated. I am a person who has always new ideas, a true passionate by new technologies. I love what I do and I’ll do everything to achieve my goals. My achievements are:

• “Microsoft Student partner” in two successive years 2008-2009 and 2009/2010

• 2nd place in the Tunisian Imagine Cup 2009

• 2nd place in the Tunisian IE8 Dev Challenge

• .NET Framework 3.5 Certified

• Founder of the Silverlight-TN Group (on the Azure cloud) : http://silvertn.cloudapp.net

• Vice President of the Club Info+ : http://infoplusfst.org (computer club of the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis ) (2007-2008)

• Vice President of the Club .NET+ : http://dotnetplus.spaces.live.com (Microsoft Club of the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis) (2008-2009)

• I’m a Web Radio broadcaster (for fun) and an Editor in a website: http://www.tunisia-dev.com

Tell us about your University?
The Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST) , its full name is Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Physical and Natural of Tunis It is a faculty in the campus of El Manar University in Tunis (Tunisia). It depends on the University of Tunis – El Manar. FST was founded in 1960 and moved into the former premises of the Institute of Higher Studies in Tunis on the streets of Rome (downtown).

In 1974, she stood on the hill of El Manar, next to the “École nationale d’ingénieurs de Tunis” (National School of Engineering of Tunis) , place of its current location. Before 1968 the primary mission of the FST was to train secondary school teachers in mathematics, physical sciences and natural sciences (biology and geology). Two branches of the third cycle in the late 1960s were added and focused on marine biology and physics of solids.
Organization: The FST is organized by discipline into six departments:

• Department of Mathematics (the oldest)
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Biology
• Department of Geology
• Department of Computer Science (most recent)

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Microsoft Pakistan launched an exiciting competition on “Pakistan Day” by the help of which you can win exciting prizes like Netbook, T-Shirts , Bags etc. All you have to do is to Download Internet Explorer 8 and Participate in the Quiz to answer questions related to Pakistan such as historical places, information regarding Pakistan sports teams, festival that takes place, Pakistani singers etc.

If you are having trouble finding the answer, you can use Bing right there to find your answer. So, what are you waiting for? participate today and register using the Referral Code 1930.

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Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.

Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.

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Microsoft Pakistan is organizing a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This event will be organized especially for the bloggers community of Pakistan by Microsoft. This event will help you in developing a much better understanding of the real world applications for Windows 7 & Internet Explorer 8. Bloggers Day will also be an excellent opportunity to network with other Fellow Bloggers from Industry & the Microsoft Team Members. Following are the event details:

• Date –  January 23rd 2010
• Time - 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
• Location - Microsoft Innovation Center, 1st Floor – FAST National University of Computer and Emerging, Sciences (City Campus), 22-G Block, 6 P.E.C.H.S Karachi.

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