Recently, Microsoft has loudly announced its intention to use hardware acceleration in its next version of Internet Explorer. Some manufacturers of computers and accessories were quick to praise Microsoft for the courage and resourcefulness.

But suddenly it became clear that almost every manufacturer of software did the same, and it turns out that the use of hardware acceleration is not too clever or original. For example, Mozilla announced that she had long planned to do the same with Firefox, and its developers can already show a prototype of a future version of the browser, showing the possibility of using Direct2D and DirectWrite.

Google is also exploring methods for hardware acceleration of Chrome; however, the manufacturer is not currently provided more detailed information. However, at the time, as Microsoft seeks to get the headlines, Mozilla is confident that it will release the first browser with hardware acceleration. Microsoft hints that the final version IE9 appear in the spring of 2011, probably in conjunction with Windows 8.