Microsoft Finally Catches Up to the Competition With Internet Explorer 9

Today at Microsoft's Mix conference in Las Vegas, the company showed off the next generation of their venerable (and oft-maligned) web browser, Internet Explorer 9. It's a huge step in the right direction, but it will literally leave some users behind.

What Microsoft showed off was just a demo, a developer's build, but already IE9 is faster and more responsive to web standards than its predecessor, IE8. Many of us don't use IE and indeed haven't used it in years, favoring Firefox, Chrome...