Internet Explorer 11 preview for Windows 7 now available

As promised by the Redmond giant after it released the consumer preview version of Windows 8.1 with the new iteration of the browser last month, the browser can be downloaded from Microsoft's Window's website.

Microsoft announced the development on its MSDN blog and said that Internet Explorer for Windows 7 offers the same improved performance, faster page load times, new standards support for next generation sites, and completely revised F12 developer tools, that the browser's Windows 8.1 version offers.

Microsoft moved to a faster update cycle recently to publish updates to Internet Explorer more often to the public. While the company won't switch to a six week update cycle like Mozilla, it means that users won't have to wait years before new versions of the default Windows browser becomes available.  That is, at least on the systems the new versions support.

This developer preview of Internet Explorer 11 shows off the enhanced performance that Microsoft claims beats the competition, including Chrome and Firefox. IE11 will support hardware acceleration, which uses your graphics processing unit to render graphics so that your CPU isn't taxed with the task. Microsoft claims that "IE11 is 4% faster than IE10, and nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser.

Internet Explorer 11 :- Features

• Autocomplete in the console.
• Support for multi-line input.
• Capture network traffic with the network tool which has received updates as well.
• A new UI Responsiveness tool.
• Script profiler tool has been updated

IE11 is only available in select languages at the time of writing: Arabic, English (US), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish..