From PC World: It isn't every day that a company like Microsoft admits that its mobile browser isn't up to snuff compared to its competitors, like the iPhone or Android devices.
But that's what Microsoft did on Thursday, acknowledging that websites viewed using Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Phones don't provide the same rich browsing experience as they do on rival platforms. Naturally, Microsoft said it would fix this, via the version of IE11 built into Windows Phone 8.1 Update.
Microsoft said that it had tested the new browser on the top 500 websites and found that it improved the experience on more the 40 percent of them. "Based on your feedback, we pursued a web experience for IE users consistent with what is available on iOS and Android devices—even where this meant we would be adding non-standard web platform features," in a blog post authored by Adrian Bateman and Frank Olivier, both program managers for Internet Explorer. "We believe that this is a more pragmatic approach to running today's less-standardised mobile web."
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