Microsoft announces Internet Explorer 9

By on Mar 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM
News March 17, 2010

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MIX10 is going strong and this year, the Microsoft conference has been filled with big announcements. Yesterday, we learned about Windows Phone 7 Series development and today, we get a glimpse of what is coming in Internet Explorer 9. The latest web browser from Microsoft stays competitive by supporting several HTML 5 specifications including CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XHTML parsing, and both embedded H.264/MPEG4 video and MP3/AAC audio. Microsoft’s latest web browser also includes a new and improved JavaScript engine that combined with its GPU-accelerated graphics promises to deliver a rich browsing experience. You can test drive the latest browser via an online demo over at Microsoft’s new IE9 website or, if you enjoy living life on the edge of a system collapse, you can download and install the Internet Explorer 9 platform preview.

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  • jonathan T

    First and this is great news, too bad I don’t enjoy watching system crashes for beta testing so I won’t be downloading this for a while. Maybe someone else can check it out.

  • unwynd

    this is good news, this is still in dev so i won’t mind ur crash comments for now

  • Ryan

    As a web developer, this is excellent for me! Only 5 years too late… I say if Microsoft will launch this bad boy as well as bury IE 6 once and for all, I’ll consider switching from FireFox.

  • webby

    Another IE piece of crap. The last IE version we upgraded to will barely even work, but who cares, we don’t use it.

    Chrome baby!

    • jaymax

      Yeah…rag on a product you haven’t even used. Well done! /sarcasm

      Use Chrome so Google can sniff through everything you browse…

      • yaya

        sure, dont rag on an unreleased product.
        but there is no reason to rag on chrome either you paranoid bastard. chrome flies…and IE will have to do a lot to stop me from using it.

  • STFU

    WHY IS THIS NEWS ON BGR????

    ITS NOT CELL RELATED!

  • Sliznut

    Where have you been? BGR is not JUST cell related.

  • Jarrett

    h.264
    AAC

    Where have I seen those before……. Oh yeah, there was another company (an actual tech company) that saw these as the next standards 10 years ago. Glad to see Microsoft showing their “vision” once again.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Sliznut

    Jarrett….seriously. Give it up.

  • tech junkie for life

    Just to Ice the Cake – No XP support either, Yummy!

    • http://www.fruitjuicenow.com Bryan Gauvin

      uhh ya. XP is like 10 years old. Why the hell would they make it work with such an old system when that just creates problems for people who are current having to run a POS software that has to work on old systems. Upgrade you cheap bastard

  • Sliznut

    Of course no XP support. Microsoft has been trying to bury XP for awhile now.

  • maxpayne79

    give it up for Microsoft for still using a browser form ’87. i think Depeche Mode was bumpin’ Behind the Wheel in ’87

  • Bry

    People still use IE?!

  • Shawn

    Hahahahaha, They wont support XP….. It was the only stable version of windows out there… Not Vista, Nor Win 7..

    Maybe they will realease another IE for Mac? Then again, probably not.

  • http://www.itsagadget.com Andrei

    I think Internet Explorer will never outclass Mozilla Firefox as long as Microsoft builds a browser without taking into consideration uses opinion. We made a review about IE9, http://www.itsagadget.com/2010/03/internet-explorer-9-tries-to-overcome-mozilla.html

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