Internet Explorer 9 arrives, not for XP

Microsoft unleashed Internet Explore 9 this evening at the SXSW.

It is not only the fastest, most standards-compliant version of IE yet, but also as one that can compete with features and looks of other web browsers like Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. However Windows XP users cannot download IE9 .

Microsoft’s official statement says the graphics card-powered hardware acceleration that helps the browser load pages faster doesn’t work properly with the device drivers on Windows XP. But Firefox’s 4 release candidate 1 offers full hardware acceleration across multiple operating systems, including Windows XP.

You can go to http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ to read more about IE9 and download IE9.