Nice links RD- thanks!

Downloads all Languages > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-9/worldwide-languages 

Features > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/features   IT Pro Infomation > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/ie Availability of Windows Internet Explorer 9 > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982861 Resources for IE 9 >  http://support.microsoft.com/ph/807#tab0  Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=671b9cf6-546c-4889-8a6d-eeaa56c76deb 

More on the Web Tracking Feature > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/14/web-tracking-protection-minimum-standards-and-opportunities-to-innovate.aspx 

Just a general comment, for those used to Firefox aka Mozilla Browser, it will take a while to get the feel of using another Browser on a day to day basis.  

Testing text editor with IE 9:

Bold

Blue

Italic

Link

Seems OK, at least here.

Are the MVP Blogs not Telligent powered ? If I was able to run IE 9, I would gladly do a test Blog post. There must be someone out there that could for comparo purposes.

Have any of you had problems using IE 9 and the text editors on forums that use HTML? So far, I'm not doing well with Dell's Telligent and others' Lithium forums. However, it works well on Microsoft's forums that use HTML.

Using Firefox now because I just tried to reply here using IE 9 and got: "* Posts must have some content in the body."

What I wanted to say is that I cannot highlight anything using the default text editor on this forum and two others that use HTML. I cannot bring up the HTML source editor at all.

siljaline, I do not know what version of Telligent the blogs use. Microsoft's new forums seem to work fine for me with IE 9. If Joe can post here using IE 9, there must be a problem on my end.

Testing Testing. Testing

I ended up setting Compatibility View for all sites. Thank You, bamajim! :emotion-2: All fixed.

Atl + T will bring up the hidden menu for Tools >Compatibility Settings >Display all websites in Compatibility View

I am still using IE7 on this computer with Vista. Everything works fine, the speed is acceptable, and scans come up clean. What would I gain by using IE9? I don't want to deal with "improvements" that make it harder or more confusing to browse. Appreciate all thoughts on this.

More than just  "additional features", each successive generation of IE offers significant enhancement in security.   For example, IE7 introduced the "anti-phishing" filter (not available in IE6)...  and then IE8 went one-step further, enhancing the anti-phishing filter to become a "SmartScreen" filter (anti-malware in addition to anti-phishing).  

Another example:   IE8 added [an Optional  feature called]  InPrivate Browsing , which helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data. 

This are just two examples.   Overall, IE8 is considered to be much more secure than IE7.   And for XP users, IE8 is as high as we can go (IE9 does not run under XP).

IE9 presumably offers significant security [and feature] enhancements over IE8.   But as an XP (only) user, I can't testify to anything specific.   One thing I've read is that IE9 [and FF4, to be released soon] both offer "hardware acceleration" of graphics (as opposed to "software acceleration") --- meaning that browsers should present web pages significantly faster.   However, in order to take advantage of the hardware acceleration feature, one may need to upgrade their graphic drivers to the most recent versions.   FF4 tests for the latest drivers... and if not present... will "fall-back" to using (the slower) software acceleration ; I'm not sure what IE9 does in such a case.

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EDIT:   The following information was obtained from http://www.calendarofupdates.com/updates/index.php?app=calendar&module=calendar&cal_id=1&do=showevent&event_id=90743

* Fast: Internet Explorer 9 is all-around fast. Designed to take full advantage of your PC’s hardware through Windows, Internet Explorer 9 delivers graphically rich and immersive experiences that are as fast and responsive as native applications installed on your PC.   Support for HTML5 and modern Web standards architected to take advantage of the GPU [Graphic Processing Unit] means that the same mark-up not only works across the Web, but runs faster and delivers a richer experience through Windows and Internet Explorer 9.

* Trusted: Internet Explorer is the trusted way to the Web because it has a robust set of built-in security, privacy and reliability technologies that keep you safer and your browsing experience uninterrupted.

I understand ky331. I usually go to links that are formatted in order to read any remaining info that was not included. Maybe it's a habit I developed because I use Twitter too much.:emotion-1: