
13:48 17th March 2010
Microsoft has unveiled a technology preview of its latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9, which aims to speed up access to internet pages.
The web giant said the new browser enables web developers to offer users richer experiences that render faster and more consistently.
Ray Ozzie, the company's chief scientist, also presented "Dallas," an online platform aiming to help software developers trace, guide and subscribe to commercial data sources in a standard way, Computer Weekly has reported.
Microsoft said these data sources could help developers create new cross-platform web applications.
In other news, just five months after launching Security Essentials, Microsoft has moved to increase the distribution of its free anti-virus and malware tool from 17 countries and eight languages to 74 countries and 25 languages.
"We expect to be in up to 83 countries and 33 languages by the end of the first half of 2010," said Microsoft's Theresa Burch.
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Written by Derek Oldman
