During one of the final session of TechEd New Zealand 2010Nigel Parker from Microsoft compared the performance difference of the latest build of IE9 to Chrome. This demonstration shows that the hardware acceleration in IE9 is still much faster than Chrome even when hardware acceleration was enabled in the latest Chrome Canary build.
For some time Mozilla and Google would tout that performance of their browsers JavaScript engines as compared to IE but now that the performance difference is almost negligible Microsoft has taken a huge lead in what the next big performance benchmark for browsers, HTML performance.
Now that the iPad has been announced I have decided to do a point by point comparison of the devices OS against Windows 7. Overall I am not really impressed with any of the particular features but the device look and feel seems just a lot like a over sized iPad.
Really this is just a oversized iPod/iPhone with a touch screen with no notable mention of multi-tasking support. It is still a highly locked down platform
The WiFi only version is going to be available in 60 days.
