On January 12, 2016, Microsoft ended support for all Internet Explorer versions older than Internet Explorer 11 released in 2013, due to new policies requiring only the latest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows to continue to be supported. Internet Explorer 9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format. It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware-accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware-accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XML Paper Specification (XPS) print pipeline. It is the last of the five major web browsers to implement support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Internet Explorer 9 supports ECMAScript 5 (ES5), several CSS 3 properties and embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System, and has improved JavaScript performance. Internet Explorer 9 is the last version of Internet Explorer to be supported on Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM as the following version, Internet Explorer 10 will only work on Windows 7 SP1 or later and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later. Windows XP and earlier are not supported. The system requirements for Internet Explorer 9 are Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2 with the Platform Update. It is the first version since Internet Explorer 2 not to be bundled with a Windows operating system, although some OEMs have installed it with Windows 7 on their PCs, as well as new Windows 7 laptops. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 as a major out-of-band version that was not tied to the release schedule of any particular version of Windows, unlike previous versions. It was released to the public on March 14, 2011. Internet Explorer 9 or IE9 (officially Windows Internet Explorer 9) is the ninth version of the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. en-us /download /internet-explorer-9-details.

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