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MICROSOFT’S LATEST internet browser was downloaded more than 2.3 million times in the 24 hours after it was officially launched, as the company tries to regain some of the market share it has lost to Google and Mozilla.

Internet Explorer’s senior director Ran Gavin disclosed the figures in a blog post on the Windows teamblog.com website.