IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 Now Available

A Guy said:

Lol, I know I can have it and other browsers. What I meant is as an example, you can have the release version of Opera side by side with Opera Next, 2 Opera versions. You can have the release version of Firefox and Firefox Nightly side by side. I was hoping I could have the preview side by side with IE9.

I have weekly images of my system, but I see threads constantly of people who wanted to go back and it didn't work, and they could not get the new version back, etc. I also see issues caused by 10 and 11. I don't need it, just wanted to check it out. Rarely use IE, so IE9 will work just fine

So I have my answer, you can't have 11 and 9 at the same time.

A Guy

Yeah that what I thought you meant at first, which is why I posted this first - IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7 Now Available

so with ie 11 on windows 7. will I be able use the new html5 on netflix? or is it only in windows 8.1

it has faster loading then silverlight.

it really seems like Microsoft is pushing everyone to 8.1 to use certain things.

I thought IE10 supported HTML5? The website will also need to written in HTML 5 too.

Supported Browsers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...s_%28HTML_5%29

x BlueRobot said:

I thought IE10 supported HTML5? The website will also need to written in HTML 5 too.

Supported Browsers - Comparison of layout engines (HTML5) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yeah but microsoft made a deal with netflix that they can use html5 with drm protection in internetexplorer 11 with windows 8.1.

but it doesnt look like the option will be there for windows 7.

It will apply for the browser then, IE11 was originally intended with Windows 8.1, it will be released with Windows 8.1, however, has now been available for Windows 7.

ThrashZone said:

I'm likely to wait until the final version is released...ie10 is fine and dandy and my only installed browser.

Whatever it takes to justify your non use that's fine, but let's not act like there isn't any progress here because it is. That even in it's "preview" form it's functioning better than either IE9 or 10. It's certainly faster and snappier than 10.

That said, if it's clearly because it's a preview release, as some have noted, that's understandable. But for some of us trying it out, it's fairly impressive thus far.

It's easy to listen to the FUD, it's another thing to see for yourself


My two cents.

sygnus21 said:

Whatever it takes to justify your non use that's fine, but let's not act like there isn't any progress here because it is. That even in it's "preview" form it's functioning better than either IE9 or 10. It's certainly faster and snappier than 10.

That said, if it's clearly because it's a preview release, as some have noted, that's understandable. But for some of us trying it out, it's fairly impressive thus far.

It's easy to listen to the FUD, it's another thing to see for yourself


My two cents.

Reasons I don't bother with betas is because the final product is rarely the same and I'm content to wait until any bugs have been worked out. I'm not against progress or change but will adopt only when it actually benefits me.