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Since the launch of Internet Explorer 9 last March, we’ve been excited to see the product get some of the best reviews Internet Explorer has ever seen.

How are your Windows 7 deployment skills? Know when to use MDT, ACT, MAP and WAIK? Do you know how use the over 1400 security settings to lockdown and manage Internet Explorer 9? Not sure? Sounds like you need a little DLP (Deployment Learning Portal). The DLP is designed to help you identify the strengths and gaps in your knowledge around Windows 7 deployment and provide some targeted learning to help you reach the top of your game.

Join us for a lively roundtable discussion on how the technology landscape has changed since Windows XP was first released, and learn how to address today's challenges around security and manageability. Host Stephen Rose, IT Pro Community Manager with the Windows Client team, will be joined by a panel of IT professionals and Microsoft subject matter experts to dive into the differences between Windows® 7 and Windows XP, Windows® Internet Explorer® 6 and. Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9, and the various technologies in the client PC management stack.

With the announcement of the release to web for Internet Explorer 9, we are confident that IT pros will see Internet Explorer 9 as the best browser for business customers.

Last week, we shared our perspective on what it means for a browser to be all around fast.  By harnessing the full power of the PC, Internet Explorer 9 Beta enables sites to create new types of web site.  In this post, we talk to Myspace about what an all around fast browser means for their site.

In March of this year we released our first Internet Explorer Platform Preview as a way to give web developers and designers a look at our faster, more interoperable, fully hardware accelerated rendering engine for Internet Explorer 9.

Last month, we saw coverage about Internet Explorer posting a worldwide gain in usage share. That encouraging news continues today with Net Applications’ release of their July usage share numbers. Net Applications reports overall Internet Explorer share grew 0.42% worldwide in July, while Firefox lost 0.90% share and Chrome dipped 0.08% in share.

Since the release of the first Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at MIX back in March and the second in May, we’ve shown a lot of demos of IE9 with other browsers. Today, Apple announced and released Safari 5. We figured we would show IE9 and Safari 5 together running some of the demos from the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive website. Watch the Frames Per Second (FPS) Counter.

Ryan Gavin, Senior Director of Internet Explorer Product Management here at Microsoft, recently travelled to Europe to chat about Internet Explorer. As many of you know, there’s been a lot happening with Internet Explorer these past few months (which is exciting!).

To get an idea on where Internet Explorer is headed and its future with Internet Explorer 9, this video from Reuters (sorry, the embed function is disabled) gives you a good overview. Definitely check it out.

Back in August, I wrote a blog post about how Internet Explorer 8 offers the best protection against socially engineered malware threats. This week, NSS Labs released a new study that continues to show Internet Explorer 8 to be the #1 browser in blocking malware!