INTERNET EXPLORER 9 64 BIT FOR WINDOWS 7 SOFTWARE
The real win for the current generation of most 64-bit software is its access to more than 4GBs of RAM. Now, with a Web browser that's not likely to make a big difference. I had used the 64-bit version of IE9 because generally speaking 64-bit applications run marginally faster on 64-bit architectures. I was getting closer to working out the riddle though. And, once again I sent IE 9 64-bit on its trip through the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark 0.91 and this time it came in 1111.3ms (milliseconds). This time though there was nothing else on the system, not even Chrome 10 yet, that might cause trouble. Once more I installed the latest IE 9 release candidate. OK, so I now have a fresh system with nothing on it except Windows. While it's not as big a comparative improvement as Windows XP SP3was in its day, I think most Windows 7 users would be better off going with SP1. In passing, let me say that while I know some people have had trouble with Windows 7 SP1, SP1 is a good patch. After that I brought it up to date with Windows 7 SP1. I then installed on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit from the partitions on up. I burned out everything that currently lived on that system with my favorite system repair Linux distribution SystemRescueCD.
INTERNET EXPLORER 9 64 BIT FOR WINDOWS 7 PC
This PC uses a 2.6GHZ Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 processor and has 6GBs of RAM and a 640GB hard-drive. This time around I picked a Gateway SX2802-07 desktop. The first thing I did was to start talking with Microsoft, who, as you might have guessed, had wanted to talk to me anyway, and to set up a new benchmark PC. When I started hearing from people that I respected, like my ZDNet bud Ed Bott, that he was also seeing results that put IE 9 RC just ahead of Chrome, I decided to re-run my benchmarks and take a closer look at my results. Still, as I said, I wasn't happy with my results. I call them like I see them and, in my tests, the IE 9 RC was just dreadfully slow compared to the others. Some were outraged and accused me of deliberating trying to set up IE to fail. Some of my readers were more than puzzled. When I recently took a look at the brand new Chrome 10 Web browser, the results for the latest release candidate of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 puzzled me because they were so bad.