With Microsoft set to launch the first beta of a significantly faster Internet Explorer later today, wrangling for pride of place in hardware acceleration is heating up, and getting some rivals hot under the collar.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will tap Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs' graphics processors to speed up rendering, assembling and displaying a browser page. Microsoft has touted the technique, called "hardware acceleration," since it announced IE9 almost a year ago, and has been aggressively promoting the technology since last March, when it rolled out the first preview.
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