Microsoft has announced global availability Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 users. The company will begin begun automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews. Windows 7 Users, however, can manually download the upgrade as well. 

The IE 11 brings a host of new features including improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that have already been available on Windows 8 platform for weeks. According to Microsoft, the new browser loads about 9% faster than IE10 and 30% faster than rival browsers, thanks to improved JavaScript performance. 

“IE11 includes support for the well-defined and commonly used features of the emerging ECMAScript 6 standard including let, const, Map, Set, and WeakMap, as well as __proto__ for improved interoperability. IE11 also supports the ECMAScript Internationalization API (version 1.0), which enables culture aware sorting, number formatting, date and time formatting to be performed efficiently in JavaScript without having to round-trip to the server,” explains Microsoft in a blog post. 

Microsoft has maintained its focus on developers with increased support for 'modern' Web standards, as the update comes with F12 developer tools and support for touch gestures as well as its clutter-free Reading View for Internet Explorer.