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by wofser 5328 days ago
Windows Phone 7 uses IE9 and that is a darned good browser.

I dont know what browser Windows Mobile uses but its irrelevant since Windows Phone 7 replaced it.
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rimantas 5328 days ago 

  darned good browser.
…compared to IE7. Is it not a mix of IE7 and IE9?
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freehunter 5328 days ago
Pre-Mango update, it was a mix of IE7 and IE8. After the Mango update, it's IE9's rendering engine, which gives it HTML5 capabilities.
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bad_user 5328 days ago
Well, Microsoft's marketing certainly works. IE9 is certainly better than IE8.

However, nothing gives me confidence that IE 9 will not be the new IE 6 and so I wish for IExplorer to just vanish completely.

You see, IExplorer 6 was also a darned good browser. But did it hold the web back? Yes it did. And for all the bullshit marketing coming from Microsoft, IExplorer 9 is doing it again. Nothing really changed.

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/

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