IE9 to get GPU acceleration

[LizardKing]

Microsoft trying new ways to compete with their competitors.

Wonder if this will shift the marketshare back in their favor.

time will tell

I guess you missed the link i posted

 

[mr.sly]

I don't think Microsoft will ever get back to the 90% market they use to have with IE. But I do think that as more and more IE releases are made they will start to win back the support of web developers - and that is the majority of what Microsoft is trying to achieve now. Sooner or later web developers will realise that the real enemy are web browsers that implement incomplete draft standards such as HTML5. It's just the browser wars from the 90's all over again. W3C folks must be rolling their eyes at the immaturity of certain companies.

Why? If Apple didn't develop and introduce the canvas element into Safari the W3C wouldn't of picked up on it and introduced it into the spec. We need more browsers developing new ideas and making sure they open source the code and work with the W3C to implement it into the spec. Something Microsoft haven't been very good at in the past.