Microsoft threw a big party at the Design Concourse Center in San Francisco to announce the launch of Internet Explorer 9.
Besides the live band, the party included developers, journalists and Microsoft employees.
The latest version of the Internet Explorer web browser boasts greater support for HTML 5 and hardware acceleration. Web developers have a history of dislike of the IE web browser, and many view the browser with skepticism.
Microsoft claims that the focus of IE9 will be the "regular consumer." This will most likely frustrate those of us that keep many tabs open at once. The tabs will appear on the right side of the address bar--the goal obviously was to decrease the amount of real estate consumed by the controls at the top.