In the spring of 2011, the web was a battlefield. Firefox was gaining ground, Chrome was sprinting ahead, and Internet Explorer — still bruised from the IE6 debacle — was trying to stage a comeback.
But there was a catch: Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic couldn’t run the 32-bit version with GPU acceleration — they lacked the DWM (Desktop Window Manager). So on netbooks, IE9 32-bit was still fast enough in software rendering, while 64-bit IE9 stumbled. internet explorer 9 32 bit
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And somewhere in a corporate data center, an old server still runs Windows 7 Embedded with IE9 32-bit — faithfully rendering an intranet page last updated in 2012, never crashing, never updating, waiting for a click that may never come. In the spring of 2011, the web was a battlefield
Using Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit) today poses significant security risks. So on netbooks, IE9 32-bit was still fast