Improved Web Browsing with Internet Explorer 10
Windows 8 ships with Internet Explorer 10, which offers much better HTML5 support, a much faster JavaScript engine to make interactive websites snappier, and it takes advantage of your computer’s graphics processor to significantly speed up the rendering (drawing) of complex web pages. It’s more secure as well, due to features such as Windows 8’s High Entropy Address Space Layout Randomization, which randomizes the location of sensitive system code modules. This makes them moving targets for malicious code that tries to exploit bugs in known program locations.
There are actually two faces to Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8: the desktop version sports the now-familiar multitabbed interface and ...
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