

It is slightly faster than IE 9 and much faster than IE 8. In our HTML5 benchmarks, Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 fell behind both Chrome and Opera but beat out Firefox. Microsoft even partnered with Atari and Contre Jour to show off the power of Internet Explorer 10. The browser definitely feels a lot snappier than previous versions and puts it on par with competitors like Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft has included support for web standards like CSS animations, HTML5 spell checking, and improved JavaScript performance. Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is the quickest version of the browser yet. The options menu is still there for the more technically inclined but it hasn't received any update. Users can get to all of the options from the little gear icon on the top right. Menus have been simplified and the menu bar is still hidden by default. If you have a lot of tabs open, the interface can look a bit cluttered. Tabs and the address bar share the same space. The forward and back buttons are integrated into the window, making the look of Internet Explorer 10 Preview more seamless. The interface of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 has changed only a little. Still, there are plenty of interface and upgrades under the hood.



YoWindow is an original, colorful app for checking the weather forecast on your computer.While Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 lives a double life as a touch-based and desktop browser, Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 only presents the desktop version of IE 10. Another annoying detail was not to be able to scroll down the list of countries and cities with your mousewheel when choosing a location. Generally speaking, YoWindow is a surprisingly nice weather forecast tool, though I missed having more landscape designs to use as background. The program can be set as your default screensaver as well. You can click on each day to access the information right away, or move the timeline on top to check how weather conditions change as hours go by – and also see beautiful sunsets and dawns. YoWindow includes the weather forecast for the next three days. All these conditions are reflected in an customizable animated background – which you can replace with your own photos as well. It displays the current weather situation (sunny, cloudy, rainy and so on) plus temperature (both real and the one it actually feels like), wind, pressure, and humidity. Besides having a very original interface, YoWindow is also quite informative.
