![]() ![]() We blogged-a lot-to make sure that developers had the right information to succeed. We also regularly released “test drives” to illustrate what the platform makes possible, along with comprehensive tests that we submitted to Web standards bodies. Our new approach started with a regular cadence of meaningful platform previews. An important factor was the Web community’s engagement as the IE team took a more open and transparent approach across the nine platform releases of IE9. IE9 went from early preview to final release in less than a year, and in that time became the fastest growing beta of IE ever, with over 40 million pre-release downloads and 2% usage share on Windows 7. Interoperable: With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites. Trusted: IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:įast: With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.Ĭlean: With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications. I would hope that Microsoft would wait until R3, or Windows 8 to default to 64 bit only.With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows. With no way to port these to 64 bit it immediately would render our products, and many others useless – at least until the customer added 32 bit support again. Even our 64 bit compatible remote control has some elements that are 32 bit only. The disturbing part from a compatibility standpoint is that it is not installed by default. This is a post referring to the Core version of Server 2008, but still it is an interesting development that you can totally turn off 32 bit support. I’m interested in hearing feedback on our decision to not install this by default – is this a good idea, or will you always need to install this because you have 32bit code you need to run? This enables you to further reduce the footprint of Server Core if you remove it from the image. WoW64 support for 32bit applications is now an optional feature in Server Core R2 and is not installed by default. Mostly because I fear that Windows 7, and 2008 R2 will be another smack down for us in regard to application compatibility. I have been digging up as much information possible about Windows 2008 R2. ![]()
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