Bytes in the Margin

This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl.
Wouldn't a good Window Manager offload that work...

I've written before about using Microsoft's IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer.
The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided by Redmond,...