I also found one oddity in IE 9's Tracking Protection feature. The far better question that those who bleed Microsoft blue should be asking is: "Why is Microsoft deliberately insisting that their 64-bit users install a second-rate version of their own flagship Web browser?" Wouldn't it make more sense to do what all the other Web browser developers do and make the 64-bit version an experimental, optional download? That way there would be no chance of any confusion and they could be sure that every IE 9 user would get the best possible experience. You can say all you want that 'normal' users won't try to run 64-bit IE, but they do, and they do it every day. That's when they write to me, and I point them at the article I wrote telling them how to run 32-bit IE 9 on 64-bit Windows. Funny, the IE 9 download process still insists that that 64-bit Windows users install the inferior 64-bit version and, they rather naturally, assume that they should run the 64-bit browser. I've been told over and over again by Windows fan boys that no one would ever run the 64-bit version of IE. Because we focus exclusively on one, IE can make the most of the Windows experience and the hardware." Hachamovitch is reported as saying, " Other browsers dilute their engineering investments across systems. Indeed, Dean Hachamovitch, the head of Microsoft's IE's engineering group boasted of it at the SXSW (South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals). Of course, Microsoft also doesn't support IE 9 on Mac OS X or Linux either. ![]() Yes, according to NetMarketShare, the majority of Windows users are still running XP, 55%, to 23% running Windows 7 and 11% with Vista, but there's still no IE 9 for you. ![]() When it comes to desktop operating systems, IE 9 works only with Windows 7 and Vista. After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while 32-bit IE 9 is much better than any other version of IE to date, it's still not my first pick for a Web browser.
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