Microsoft aggressively and abusively positioned Internet Explorer as part of their "browser war" to eliminate all competition. Home Internet access was still somewhat new and competed against proprietary services like CompuServe, AOL, and Microsoft's own MSN. At various points, Internet Explorer was also available for MacOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.Īt its 1995 release, Internet Explorer competed with the Mosaic web browser and Netscape Navigator. It was initially based on Spyglass Mosaic. We’ve also highlighted some of them in screenshots below.Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application created by Microsoft primarily for Microsoft Windows. There’s a ton of other, smaller, features below the hood, but these are the most interesting features.
Combined Search / Address Bar - IE9 integrates the two boxes together into one, and even adds search suggestions that work quite well, similar to Google Chrome’s combined omnibox. 
There’s a lot of whiners out there that say Microsoft didn’t make it work well enough, but I think it’s a good first step.
HTML5 Support - Microsoft has finally learned from their past mistakes, and focused on getting IE to the point of compliance with internet standards. 
Pinned Sites - While Google Chrome might have started out with their web applications concept, IE9 takes it to another level by allowing site owners to customize the menus for sites pinned to the Windows 7 taskbar. This browser is blazing fast, all around. Hardware Acceleration - IE9 is the first browser that taps into the power of your video card to make everything faster, by default. Completely New Interface - as you can see in the screenshot above, there’s a completely new interface, designed from the ground up to save space on the screen-in fact, it uses even less pixels than Google Chrome. If you want to see the full list of changes with all the original marketing detail, you can read Microsoft’s IE9 Download page, but here’s the highlights that you might be interested in.
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