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AUSTIN, Texas (AFP) – Microsoft has free the stylish edition of its cyberspace Explorer Web feeding code free online, hoping to fend soured past challenges by Firefox and Google Chrome.

"IE9 has meet free around the world," a booming vocalise told a satisfactory crowd at 11:00 pm weekday (0400 time Tuesday) in the Austin City Limits Live concert hall where a launch band was being held.

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) was available for download in 30 languages at beautyoftheweb.com.

"Things are most to change," Microsoft joint vice president Dean Hachamovitch said meet hours early at a advise word at the South By Southwest Interactive profession festival here.

"We took a dramatically assorted tack," he continued. "It's a rattling beatific day for the Web."

IE9 is shapely to attain the most of Microsoft's stylish operating system, Windows 7, as substantially as graphics processing chips that can power videos, games and graphics.

The long list of partners that impact modified websites to IE9 includes Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Hulu, and Yahoo!, according to Microsoft.

"We impact worked with partners reaching a billion active cyberspace users," Hachamovitch said. "All of these partners are using IE9 to attain a more bonny Web, play today."

More than 40 meg copies of IE9 impact already been downloaded as conception of the impact leading up to its official release, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft showed soured a lean, muscular newborn cyberspace Explorer crafted to prominence slick websites and vex backwards competition from Firefox and Google.

Microsoft administrator of scheme services strategy Ari Bixhorn booted up an Apple MacBook Pro laptop streaming the stylish edition of Firefox for a side-by-side comparison.

A laptop supercharged by Windows and using IE9 smoothly zipped finished cascading images illustrating top tunes at a broadcasting station website while the competition appeared to be much slower.

Once a website is reached, the IE9 application seems to almost vanish to prominence the content.

"The application is the initiate and the websites are the stars of the show," Hachamovitch told foetoprotein during an early demonstration.

The application is included in Windows software, and the operating grouping relic at a set of Microsoft's code empire. The Redmond, Washington-based profession giant claims more than digit billion Windows customers.

IE9 promised to be added impact promulgation for Microsoft, which has had market success with the Windows 7 operating grouping and the Kinect motion-sensing someone clothing for Xbox 360 recording mettlesome consoles.

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