With a sleek new design, Internet Explorer 10 bursts onto the scene in Windows 8 with not one, but two versions of the popular browser.

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Internet Explorer 10

The Two Sides of Internet Explorer 10

One of the most popular features of Windows is its capability to browse the Internet. Windows 8 gives special attention to this in providing not one but two different browsers, a first for Windows.

Previous versions of Windows did offer a special mode to open Internet Explorer without add-ons, but this was still the same browser albeit with some features deactivated on launch.

Though both browsers are called Internet Explorer 10 and both are built off the same platform that offers expanded CSS3 support, hardware acceleration, and (in keeping with ...

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