Postponed Microsoft's "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9)", Japanese version only for product version

Microsoft's latest Web browser that was scheduled to start offering the product version from 1 pm on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9)"Is postponed due to the occurrence of the Tohoku Region Pacific Offshore Earthquake.

It is mainly due to reduction of load on network lines which are important communication infrastructure and consideration for energy saving in corporate activities.

Contents announced are as follows. According to the contents released by Microsoft Japan, regarding the occurrence of the Tohoku Region Pacific Offshore Earthquake, the latest web browser scheduled to be available from 1 pm on March 15, 2011 (Tuesday), "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9 We announced that we will postpone the launch of "). The new offer date is undecided and will be announced as soon as we decide while looking at the recovery situation of the earthquake.

About postponement of the offering of Internet Explorer (R) 9 Japanese version due to Tohoku Region Pacific Offshore Earthquake

We wish to express our deepest sympathy to everyone who was affected by the Tohoku Region Pacific Offshore Earthquake.
In response to the recent earthquake disaster, Microsoft has decided to suspend operations at 1 p.m. (Tuesday) March 15 (Tuesday) due to the reduction of load on network lines, which is an important communication infrastructure, We decided to postpone the offering of the latest version of the Internet Explorer (R) 9 Japanese version, which was scheduled for the first time. (Scheduled to be provided as planned except Japanese version)
Regarding the new offering date we will inform you as soon as we decide while looking at the recovery situation.

As a result of this, we have decided to postpone or cancel also the commemorative event of product offering planned on Thursday, March 17. Again we will inform you about decision items again.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you every time as a result of this decision, thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

We pray from the bottom of our hearts for recovery as soon as possible.

Since it will be launched on schedule except Japanese version,Microsoft's site will be able to download IE 9 product versions other than Japanese version from 9 pm local time March 14It seems.