Microsoft has just released the 9th incarnation of most widely used browser in the world – Internet Explorer 9. After over a year of developmentand a few pre-release versions and betas, the final product went live on March 14, 9pm PT.

Thankfully, IE9 is the most standards compliant browser in its lineage which is a great relief to web-designers and of course to users, too. It has been developed from scratch and has far better features and enhancements than its predecessor IE8. With speedy performance, hardware accelerated graphic improvements, compliance to HTML5/CSS3 standards, better UI and touch support, enhanced security and strong integration with Windows 7, IE9 emerges as a powerful competitor to Firefox 4 and Chrome.

If you are using IE8 or, god forbid, IE7 or IE6, it is very strongly recommended that you upgrade to IE9.

Download Internet Explorer 9 (Final version)