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What's really amazing is how lackluster the whole campaign is. IE is a touted as a "new browser", but here are the features they are especially proud of:

  1) Full Screen Browsing.
  2) Multitasking, which apparently means "Skype while full screen browsing".
  3) Reading view, a la the Readability or Clearly plug ins.
  4) Pinned sites, which I guess I don't understand, but it looks like Windows 8 tiles.
http://www.rethinkie.com/hello-again/#/newbrowser

Do I qualify for a payment?

That's because IE development is typically around 2 years behind the others. So they can only "brag" about stuff others have already had for a while, but try to spin the features as new.

It works for Apple.

1) Full Screen Browsing.

Like pressing F11? IE8 has it...

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