Internet Explorer has had a facelift. With the tagline ‘a more beautiful web’, Microsoft has just launched Internet Explorer version 9 with a number of new features. Looking suspiciously like Google Chrome (Google’s equivalent of IE), IE9 is boasting to be faster, cleaner and more trusted than previous versions. Some of the more notable in the list of improved features are:

• a new ‘tab page’ which gives quick access to the websites we most regularly use;
• the use of ‘one box’ for both entering website addresses (URLs) and doing an internet search (ie. you use the one box to either type in ‘www.microsoft.com’ type in ‘Microsoft’ for search results to then appear, rather than typing in the Google URL and THEN doing a search);
• and ‘pinned sites’, where you can pin a particular website to your toolbar, just as you would any computer program.

These are the more aesthetic changes, but there are a few more technical changes in regard to how it works on the back end too, apparently. If you are a Managed client of Grassroots IT, your browser will automatically be updated in time through one of our regular scheduled updates of your system. If not, you can download IE9 from here and be running the latest version of Internet Explorer in a flash. Let us know if you need any help.