DOHA: Microsoft Qatar has launched its latest version of the world's most-used browser with the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 for consumers across the country.
Using Internet Explorer 9, web users across Qatar can further leverage the power of the whole PC and get the best browsing experience on the Internet.
"The best experience of the Web is on Windows with Internet Explorer 9," said Mohammad Hammoudi, Country Manager of Microsoft Qatar located at Qatar Science and Technology Park.
Hammoudi said the web can now unlock the power and performance of the best PC hardware through Windows and Internet Explorer 9 and websites also can act more like applications within Windows 7, with features such as pinned sites.
In less than a year, Internet Explorer 9 went from early preview to final release with the help of hardware partners and the Web community. Hammoudi said Microsoft Explorers will provide consumers in Qatar ultimate browsing experience.
Mohammad Alam, General Manager of Qatar Datamation Systems (QDS) said the release of Internet Explorer 9 will provide new JavaScript engine, enhanced security and hardware acceleration, adding to the greatly improved speed and stylish minimalist interface.
Internet Explorer 9 is designed to bring sites front and center through Windows 7, enabling a more immersive, more beautiful Web experience. Features such as Pinned Sites and Jump List enable people to put their websites directly on the Windows 7 Taskbar, as though they were native applications, and then to quickly and easily perform tasks related to those websites, such as check their inbox, change the music station, accept a friend invitation or see breaking news.
"What people care about on the Web is their sites, not their browser. That's why Internet Explorer 9 is about making those sites shine. The browser is the theater and the sites people visit are the play, and that is what Internet Explorer 9 makes better -- your favorite sites," said Kerim Ozbakirci, Product Marketing Manager, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Middle East and Africa.
In December, Microsoft introduced Tracking Protection in Internet Explorer 9, which puts people in control of what data they are sharing as they move around the web, by enabling consumers to indicate what websites they'd prefer not to exchange information with.
Consumers do this by adding Tracking Protection Lists to Internet Explorer 9, and partners such as Privacy Choice, TRUSTe, Abine and Adblock Plus have already published these lists.
© The Peninsula 2011
