Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the...

Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer. Before IE9, browsers used perhaps 10% of the PC’s capability. IE9 has shown the clear performance benefits with full hardware-acceleration of webpages.   Our approach in designing a site-centric web browsing experience also involves using everything available around the browser.

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