Security-wise, Internet Explorer 10 will include a new Enhanced Protected Mode. However, the Jump lists are tucked away, only available from within Internet Explorer. Sites pinned this way can even update their tile to show status notifications-much in the way that 'real' apps can do. In Windows 8, sites can be pinned to the Start screen to make them instantly accessible. Internet Explorer 9 introduced some particularly taskbar-oriented features: support for pinning sites to the taskbar, and the ability for those pinned sites to create custom options in the Jump list.

Particular highlights are the tile-based favorites view and the tab thumbnails, both shown to good effect in Microsoft's post. The Metro version of Internet Explorer feels slick and comfortable using both touch and mouse and keyboard interaction. Its app bar, displayed by swiping from the top or bottom of the screen or right clicking the mouse, contains tabs, the address bar, and so on. Metro Internet Explorer 10 is the logical conclusion of this trend: most of the time it has no visible interface at all, leaving only the Web page visible. Windows 8's Metro design similarly removes window chrome to put the focus on content.

The current trend in browser design, led by Google Chrome, is to scale back the browser's interface so that it takes less and less of the screen, devoting more room to the Web content itself. Microsoft is continuing to show off new features coming in its Internet Explorer 10 Web browser, with a couple of posts describing its touch-friendly Metro interface and its enhanced security.

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