Windows Internet Explorer (IE, WIE, MSIE) - distributed free browser from Microsoft for the operating system Windows. The number of users who uses Internet Explorer, recently reduced, primarily due to increase audiences two main competing browsers - Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Internet Explorer has many features familiar to modern browsers: can work with tabs, block pop-up ads, has built a phishing filter, aggregator RSS, supports international domain names and provides support for Group Policy. Besides Internet Explorer easily updated with the help of Windows Update.
Some of the features of Internet Explorer:
- Fast web browsing - Hardware accelerated rendering of text, video and graphics.
- Elegant and simple design - only the necessary controls, so nothing distracts from viewing websites.
- Access to your favorite sites with one simple movement - function "Pinned Sites".
- The combination of the search from the address bar - one place to go to the website and start searching.
- Updated page "New Tab" - now you have quick access to frequently visited sites.
- Improved management of add-ons - Performance Advisor add-ons to determine which add-ons reduce the performance of the browser, and disable or remove them.
- Control privacy - Tracking Protection to limit the exchange of data between the browser and the specific websites to keep the information confidential.
- Organize Downloads - download manager allows you to view the current list of files downloaded from the Internet, receive alerts about potentially malicious files and pause and start downloading again.