IE9 Previewed: Hardware GPU Acceleration, Drops Windows XP Support

Posted by Jonathan Clarke - 18 March 2010

Microsoft unveiled more about Internet Explorer 9 at MIX'10 this week. Aside from HTML5 support, IE9 is set to provide hardware GPU acceleration. This release will also drop support for Windows XP -- a significant step and a move that may be a catalyst for accelerated migration from Windows XP.

Paul Thurrott has more details here.