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MS unveils Internet Explorer 8

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft Corporation announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, a web browser optimized to the most common ways in which people use the Internet today.

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In response to extensive customer research, Microsoft has developed Internet Explorer 8 to focus on what matters most to people. Key innovations in IE8 that make Internet browsing faster, safer and more personalized are: Accelerators, Visual Search and Web Slices.

All these features significantly cut down the number of clicks required to perform the most common tasks on the Internet. For instance, Accelerators speed up everyday online tasks like search, e-mail, social networking etc within the active web page; Web Slices appear in the browser’s ‘Favorites’ bar and provide customers with the simplicity of accessing updated information from their most visited websites, without physically going there; and Visual Search provides image-based search results—right from the browser’s home page.

In India, Microsoft has partnered with the 12 most visited websites, across consumer interest genres, including bharatmatrimony.com, economictimes.com, games2win.com, in.com, indiatimes.com, naukri.com, msnindia.com, rediff.com, sify.com, timesofindia.com, webdunia.com and zapak.com to make web browsing with Internet Explorer more fun. Globally, 15 of the top 20 worldwide sites have partnered with Microsoft to deliver this level of functionality to customers.

“The amount of time each of us spends online has grown exponentially—be it work, play, share, shop, socialize and much, much more, the browser has become our best companion in the journey of the online world. With Internet Explorer 8, we are redefining how people explore the universe around them, by making it faster, more fun, and safer, in a very personal and customized way,” said Hemant Sachdev, Joint MD—Consumer and Online, Microsoft India

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