Windows Phone 7 may get IE9 earlier than expected, among many other shortcomings (copy and paste), Windows Phone 7 probably has the weakest mobile browser right now, at least evaluated to those seen in Android and iOS. Though Microsoft is well aware of all the things they still need to add to the Windows Phone 7 platform, and are working hard on them.
And as fast as a giant like Microsoft can work on such things. So we’ll have the first major update to Windows Phone 7 at some point this spring. This, codenamed “NoDo”, will bring copy and paste and other niceties. And Microsoft has promised another major update before the end of the year. This one’s rumoured to be called Mango and it was assumed that it will bring IE9 to Windows Phone7, as Microsoft announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month.
However, a reliable tipster has contacted WMPoweruser and told them that IE9 will in fact arrive much sooner than that update, perhaps even “earlier than fall”. IE9 will bring hardware-accelerated browsing, and the same core as the desktop version of the browser, which should make it perform much better.
Now this tipster has apparently accurately predicted the first ever update for Windows Phone 7, which started rolling out a few days ago, so perhaps he or she is right once more. It would certainly help Microsoft’s standing in the mobile world if that were the case.
Source: Unwiredview
