Microsoft Explorer faster for Web Applications - Bloomberg News

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has published a faster version of its Internet Explorer browser that adds privacy controls and video features, a bid to regain the market share of the lost for Firefox and Google Inc. (GOOG) Chrome.

Internet Explorer 9 relies on HTML5, the latest version of the language that presents Web content, that allows to manage multimedia content more sites. The browser designed to run applications in the browser faster, while adding privacy options more powerful than the offer from Google. Today, it is available for download, said the company based in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft seeks to accommodate the growing number of application software that runs online rather than on the Windows operating system. The anemic performance of last browser Microsoft make it more difficult to use the Internet apps and customers pushed to rival products, said David Smith, a Stamford-based analyst, Gartner Inc. Connecticut.

"The vast overwhelming majority of new apps which develop today is developed to run in browsers - they are not native applications for Windows," said Smith. "Every seller must have a very competitive offer it.".

Although Internet Explorer remains the leading browser, its dominance has fluctuated over the past two years. Need share of 57% in February, down 62% a year earlier, according to Net Applications, which tracks Internet usage statistics. Mozilla's Firefox had 22 per cent and Chrome from Google 11 percent. Safari of Apple Inc. (AAPL) of ranked fourth, with 6.4%.

Microsoft reaches $1 cent 25.69 yesterday on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Shares fell 8 percent this year.

By supporting HTML5 for video game technology, the browser is a fee kick - to Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) Flash most popular software to watch the clips on the Internet. Apple has limited the use of Flash on the iPhone and iPad, endorsing HTML5 instead, after the Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said Flash was too slow to run on mobile devices.

The privacy news, during this time, pressure on Google to answer, Smith said. Microsoft has added the ability for users to create "Excluded" - style lists only bar list Web sites tracking users do on the Web.

The Federal Trade Commission of the United States called for non-track options in browsers, said Smith. Firefox has also developed such a feature.

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