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Microsoft’s IE9 Copies Google’s Chrome & Mozilla’s Firefox

MicroSoft Internet Explorer 9

MicroSoft Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 is Finally a Useful Experience

I’ve been working on a new website and decided to download the new Internet Explorer 9 Beta browser to see if it supports CSS3 border-radius code (it does).  I was struck by how blatantly Microsoft ripped off Google Chrome, a browser I’ve been using since the end of 2008.  This is okay with me, because I love Chrome – but if I was Google’s Chrome browser department, I’d probably be upset.  That said, I’ll show some examples below of the similarities between the new IE9-Beta with Chrome & Firefox.

IE9-Beta’s Similarities with Chrome & Firefox:

IE-9-Beta-1
Mozilla-Firefox
IE-9-Beta-2
Google-Chrome
IE-9-Beta-3
Google-Chrome-2

They say impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Either way, I like the new IE9, because I like Google Chrome.  If anything, Firefox is the browser that needs to catch up with Chrome and IE to render CSS better (as of the time of this writing).  I’m guessing Microsoft got complacent after decimating Netscape and years of 90% browser market share, but now that IE has lost half of its users to the competition (see chart below, from Wikipedia), the IE team seem to have finally awaken… and decided that copying what’s working in the marketplace (Chrome) is the fastest way to getting back into the browser race.

Web_browser_usage_share-Jan-2011

I’m Still Going to Use Chrome

There’s still features on IE9 that I find annoying, and some that I use and find missing on IE9.  What do you think?

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