IE9 Test Drive

emmo · Post time 16-9-2010 10:27 PM

Post Last Edit by emmo at 16-9-2010 22:30

Computerworld - Microsoft today unveiled a public sneak peek of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), aimed at Web developers and the technically brave of heart.

"The Platform Preview, and the feedback loop it is part of, marks a major change from previous IE releases," said Dean Hachamovich, the browser team's general manager, in a statement issued today before he took the stage at MIX10, Microsoft's Web developer conference, to publicly launch IE9.

Hachamovich promised that Microsoft would update the IE9 preview about every eight weeks, putting the first such update in mid-May with another to follow in mid-July. He did not, however, disclose a release schedule for the successor to 2009's IE8, the browser bundled with Windows 7.

IE 9 Platform Preview is far from polished, or even finished, Microsoft acknowledged, which is why it has slapped the moniker on the release, a first for IE.

IE9 Beta.. dah release arini.. korg dh test???

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

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emmo · Post time 16-9-2010 10:32 PM

support only for Windows Vista & Window 7 but not Windows XP

adie82 · Post time 17-9-2010 12:49 AM

dah try pagi tadi...

simple n sleek!

emmo · Post time 17-9-2010 01:25 PM

Reply 3# adie82

faster than firefox 3.6.10 i guess.. at least on my pc

emmo · Post time 17-9-2010 01:30 PM

a few remarks i would like to add..

Microsoft today launched its public beta version of Internet Explorer 9 at its "Beauty of the Web" event at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.

While today's release is technically a beta or test version, Microsoft engineers have assured users IE9 is very close to being finalized. The download is only compatible with Vista and Windows 7 ― another reason to upgrade your operating system from XP.

Internet Explorer received a major facelift, new features and better security, but the true beauty of the Web was revealed when Microsoft previewed Bing's graphically enhanced version coming to browsers later this month. The company said 70 partners had already optimized their sites for IE9 to allow for more graphically rich browsing experiences, including Facebook, Hulu, CNN and The Wall Street Journal.

Internet Explorer 9 is the first browser with full hardware acceleration of HTML5, reallocating much of the graphic processing to the GPU instead of the CPU. By using the GPU, IE9 is able to use the 90 percent of the PC’s power that went previously untapped by Web browsers, according to Microsoft.

Independent speed tests show IE9 is comparable in page load time to Firefox and reasonably close to Safari and Chrome, which may quell many of IE's detractors who have complained about the browser's sluggishness