Internet Explorer 9 can be
installed on the following operating systems :
-
Windows Vista
32-bit with Service Pack 2 (SP 2) or
higher
-
Windows Vista
64-bit with Service Pack 2 (SP 2) or
higher
-
Windows 7 32-bit
RTM or higher
-
Windows 7 64-bit
RTM or higher
-
Windows Server 2008
32-bit with Service Pack 2 (SP 2) or
higher
-
Windows Server 2008
64-bit with Service Pack 2 (SP 2) or
higher
-
Windows Server 2008
R2 64-bit
So if you have one of these
operating systems , these are the steps to download and
install IE9 :
-
- Click on the
Download Now button in
the upper right side of the page

- Internet Explorer
will detect you current operating system
and will provide you with a download
link for your specific Windows version.
As you can see from the below snapshot,
my current operating system version was
detected automatically : Windows 7
32-bit (English)

- In this page, you
can also select I would also
like Bing and MSN
defaults, this will set Bing as
the default search engine for you.
Decided whether you need this option or
not and then click the Download
Now button
-
On the File Download dialog box, you can
either run the installer or save it on
your machine. I will be clicking
Run

- Download will
begins

-
If you have the User Account
Control enabled, then a dialog
box will open asking you if you want to
allow the following program to make
changes to this computer, click
Yes
- The Install
Internet Explorer 9 dialog box
will open, click on Install

- Installing Internet
Explorer 9 will start

- Once installation
is completed, you will be requested to
restart your machine to apply the
changes.

- Once you restart
your machine, open Internet Explorer 9 ,
and you will discover the new interface
.

Below are some of the
new features with IE9 :
Pined Sites : Now
you can pin any website to your task bar, this can be
done either by :
- You can drag the
website icon (mostly on the left side of
the website address) to the taskbar.
- Or You can drag the
website tab itself to the taskbar.
as you can see in the below snapshots ,
I have pinned ELMAJDAL.NET to my
taskbar.

Design and
User Interface: The
first thing you will notice about IE9, is its new user
interface and design. More of the website can been seen
now. For example, previously I used to press F11 and go
into full mode to see more. Also You can find
most command bar functions, like Print or Zoom, when you
click the Tools button
.
Enjoy the new simplified design.
One Box For
both Search and Website URL :
Instead of having two boxes, one for the
website URL and other for the search engines, now
IE9 combines the functionality of these two boxes into a
single one. As you can see from the
below snapshot, the different added Search Engines can
be selected by clicking on the Download arrow.

Download Manager :
This is an excellent feature finally
added to IE. With this feature, you can have all your
downloads into a single page, and more over, you can
Pause any of your downloads, and then click on Resume to
continue where it last stopped. Excellent feature !

There are other cool features as well,
so go and install IE9 and experience the new design and
simplicity.