Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 or IE9 (officially Windows Internet Explorer 9) is the ninth major version of the Internet Explorer web browser for Windows. It was released by Microsoft on March 14, 2011 as the successor to Internet Explorer 8, at which time its supported operating systems were Windows 7 (and its server counterpart Windows Server 2008 R2), and Windows Vista SP2 (and its server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 SP2) with the Platform Update. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 as a major out-of-band version that was not tied to the release schedule of any particular version of Windows, unlike previous versions. It is the first version of Internet Explorer not to be bundled with a Windows operating system, although some OEMs have installed it with Windows on their PCs. Additionally, it is the first version of Internet Explorer to remove Itanium processor support. Internet Explorer 9 supports ECMAScript 5 (ES5), several CSS 3 properties, and embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System, and has improved JavaScript performance. It was the last of the major web browsers to implement support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware-accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware-accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XML Paper Specification (XPS) print pipeline. Internet Explorer 9 also supports the HTML media tags <video> and <audio> and the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). It was the last version to be called Windows Internet Explorer before its name was changed to Internet Explorer starting with the release of Internet Explorer 10. It is also the last version to support Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 before these versions...