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IE9 teams upward with Cut The Rope

Cutting the Rope - IE version

Microsoft has announced that it will exist offering a browser version of mobile hit game Cutting The Rope, with a ready of special levels attainable only to people who utilize IE9 and pin the game to their Windows 7 taskbar.

In what the company sees equally a great fashion to highlight the pinning office betwixt Win vii and Internet Explorer 9, the hugely successful app hitting Cut The Rope will be made bachelor for all HTML v browsers.

Notwithstanding, to access the specially created extra levels, users will accept to pivot the game.

Gabby Hegarty – the Great britain'south IE atomic number 82 for Microsoft – explained that Zepto Lab and Pixo Lab had worked on the HTML 5 version to showcase the modern browser.

Rich

"For u.s. this is a great case of how HTML 5, IE9 and Windows 7 can all work together to create a rich immersive web experience," Hegarty told TechRadar.

"Nosotros've been working closely with developers to button HTML 5 to the limits and this is one of those partnerships."

The move obviously echoes the arrival of Angry Birds for Google Chrome last year, but Hegarty insists that Microsoft is all about openness, although the determination to make seven levels only available to a limited audition is designed to prompt people to switch to IE.

"The first 18 levels are open up to anyone, only the final 7 levels are open only to IE9 users and to unlock you lot need to pin the game to the Windows 7 taskbar," added Hegarty

"One time the user gets through the xviii levels will be prompted when they become there either to download IE9 or, if they already accept the browser, to pin it to their taskbar."

Taskbar clutter

An obvious drawback about Microsoft pushing taskbar pinning is that information technology soon becomes clogged upward, something which Hegarty is aware of.

"From our point of view we expect people to pin around five or 6 things to their taskbar; things they use most of the fourth dimension like email or search," she added, confirming that unpinning the game would lose access to the levels.

"If nosotros can encourage people to pin Facebook or National Runway that they would utilise every day and see the benefits then we'll be happy.

"We definitely didn't want to lock [Cut The Rope] all downward; [the special levels] are purely thrown in there equally an awareness about pinning, the balance of information technology's completely open.

"We did accept debate about locking things downwards for pinning because nosotros're all about open, but this is clearly most sensation of pinning."

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