With just under 2 weeks to go until the launch of Internet Explorer 9 it might be a good time to look at how IE has evolved over the years.
August 1995: Internet Explorer v1.0 – Came with Microsoft Plus! For Windows 95
November 1995: Internet Explorer v2.0 – Supported 12 different languages
August 1996: Internet Explorer v3.0 – First to have the blue ‘e’ logo. 100 people in the IE team
October 1997: Internet Explorer v4.0 – Included Outlook Express for the first time
March 1999: Internet Explorer v5.0 – 1,000 people now working on IE
August 2001: Internet Explorer v6.0 – Support for RSS feeds
October 2006: Internet Explorerer v7.0 – Integrated tabbed browsing for the first time
March 2009: Internet Explorer 8 – Added Accelerators, webslices and Smartscreen
15th September 2010: Internet Explorer 9 Beta – Will reveal the beautiful web in HTML5
A richer, more immersive web is coming. Be one of the first to see what’s new in Internet Explorer 9.
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Via TheBlueE.
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Thanks for sharing. I see that IE7 came after 5 years of IE6. long gap, but was not quite useful. It is very clear that MS is still lagging behind IE development and catching up with earlier FF and now Chrome.
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