IE9 Turns Hungrygowhere.com and Tigerairways.com Into Windows Desktop Apps

Screenshots from the PR team. Bad quality but good enough to tell you what's going on.

Singapore-based sites Hungrygowhere.com (food reviews) and Tigerairways.com (flight booking) are now “site-pin enabled” if you’re using Microsoft’s latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

How does it work?: IE9 users will be given the option to drag the websites into their Windows taskbar while they are on Hungrygowhere and Tigerairways (see above). Once completed, users can access both sites via the taskbar without the need to go through a web browser, giving them a desktop app-like experience.

But I wonder how many IE9 users are there in Singapore to leverage on this new feature. I have fired a question to Microsoft’s PR team and we will update as we soon as we know the figures.

Other then Hungrygowhere and Tigerairways, IE9 can also turn online banking sites like Citibank and DBS into desktop apps. Blogs which run on WordPress are already site-pin enabled. While Apple has a store for desktop apps, Microsoft seems to have the vision that the entire web is kinda app and perhaps we can see more of such developments in its upcoming IE10 browser.