IE 8 is as fast, if not faster, than all competing browsers
WinInfo | at | by Mike
It's interesting to compare how Microsoft and Apple market their respective products. When Apple announced the beta version of its Safari 4 browser last week, it made sweeping claims like "world's fastest browser," "more than four times faster," and "up to 30 times faster than IE." Well, Microsoft is gearing up to ship its next browser, Internet Explorer (IE) 8, sometime soon, and it's addressing the performance issues as well. It's just being a lot humbler than Apple. As usual. "Internet Explorer is fast, just like other browsers," the company claims, using thorough testing against all major browser competitors as its proof. "Internet Explorer 8 loads faster on 5 of the top 10 web sites, and 12 of the top 25. It's faster on three times as many sites as Firefox. And one-third more sites than [Google] Chrome." Unlike Apple, Microsoft provides a whitepaper describing its exact methodology and results: It uses real-world Web sites to test and not micro-benchmarks that are meaningless in the real world. You know, like Apple does.