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		yogo on Jan 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, W... Very true, 8 has become the new 6.

yuhong on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

In fact, I consider the difference between IE 8 and 9 bigger than the difference between IE 6 and 8.

taspeotis on Jan 3, 2014 | [–]

As far as I know, IE9 is the first version of IE that does away with XP support so MS redid a lot of the rendering code to use Direct2D + DirectWrite which opened up hardware accelerated rendering.

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