Internet Explorer 9 Beta Scheduled for September
Internet Explorer 9 goes beta in September, but it's unknown if the public will have access.
Thursday during Microsoft’s annual day-long presentation to Wall Street analysts, chief operating officer Kevin Turner said that Internet Explorer 9 will go beta in September.
Microsoft declined to answer additional questions after Turner's announcement, remaining tight-lipped in regards to the availability of a more stable preview, or whether the beta would actually be open to the public in September.
"We do not have any additional specifics to share at this time about when Internet Explorer 9 Beta will be available," a company spokeswoman said.
Microsoft would also not name a release schedule for the final build. As it stands now, Internet Explorer 9 isn't expected to be completed until September 2011--that's if the company mimics the timeline it used for Internet Explorer 8.
Internet Explorer 9 will be the first Microsoft-based browser that won't run on Windows XP. Consumers using Windows Vista and Windows 7 can get an early taste of the upcoming browser by sampling three sets of demos here. Currently the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is in its third build.
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no explorerfox girl?
Microsoft, give up please. Internet Explorer just ... sucks.
no explorerfox girl?
I guess they wanted people to actually read the article.
I love Microsoft but even working on IE9 as long as they have I still know its going to suck, Mozilla or Google would take half the time to create the program and have it work twice as good.
Chrome beats it anyways so meh
Um No. IE9 is way better than Chrome or FF. Have you used it? It freakin flies.
Microsoft, give up please. Internet Explorer just ... sucks.
Sure. Then allow something like Safari to control the market which has more holes in it than Windows ME.
I love Microsoft but even working on IE9 as long as they have I still know its going to suck, Mozilla or Google would take half the time to create the program and have it work twice as good.
IDK. Mozilla has been working on Firefox 4 for about as long as IE9 and is probably going to be out at the same time. Each browser has their ups and downs. I don't trust Google as much. They are getting too big for their own good.
Chrome beats it anyways so meh
Um....... no?
Internet explorer isn't too bad now. I use firefox mostly. But IE has never failed me.
and Windows 7 can get an early taste of the upcoming browser by...
... downloading FireFox or Chrome
Wow, that's the first spam I've seen before it got removed.
OK so IE9 will not run on XP...far enough.
But what does this mean for programming apps that use the browser control? I know on XP it means apps are stuck with max IE8 version of the control forever. but on Vista and Win7...is there going to be an IE9 web browser control? or will apps get forced to use the IE8 version of the browser control?
Damn, I'm super stoked for this. IE9 looks to beat a lot of those browsers out there. I hope people/sites will still run a "use Firefox/Chrome" campaign once IE9 destroys those browsers.
"Still unknown if the public will have access"? But all Microsoft products are beta quality, at least until SP1. LOL.
Damn, I'm super stoked for this. IE9 looks to beat a lot of those browsers out there. I hope people/sites will still run a "use Firefox/Chrome" campaign once IE9 destroys those browsers.
Hahaha fanboi! IE9 is to browsers what Kin is to phones. Complete and utter FAIL. IE is a sinking ship and MS knows it, why else would they pump out these pointless new versions in rapid succession? Cause they know they've all but lost the browser wars to browsers that actually work - namely Firefox and Chrome.
lets wait n see what it can do in Tom's web browser grand prix
Sure. Then allow something like Safari to control the market which has more holes in it than Windows ME.IDK. Mozilla has been working on Firefox 4 for about as long as IE9 and is probably going to be out at the same time. Each browser has their ups and downs. I don't trust Google as much. They are getting too big for their own good.Um....... no?
Actually, Chrome (and Opera and FF and in many cases even Safari, even though that's too unsafe to use) beat IE in just about everything, from raw speed to customizing options.
Damn, I'm super stoked for this. IE9 looks to beat a lot of those browsers out there. I hope people/sites will still run a "use Firefox/Chrome" campaign once IE9 destroys those browsers.
Er... No. Look at the benchmark scores IE 9 gets atm, without a UI to bog it down. These are slightly above FF 4.0 and well below Opera and Chrome's most recent versions. When it has a UI, it will likely be on par with FF, but beaten by both Chrome and Opera.
And to make it worse, it won't have FF and Chrome's plethora of ad-ons, nor Opera's huge amount of features out of the box...
Firefox is still better at supporting web standards.
And Mozilla actually wants to support free standards.
(Standards that everybody can use without having to pay royalties.)
Beats everything in my book, go Firefox.
Firefox is still better at supporting web standards.And Mozilla actually wants to support free standards.(Standards that everybody can use without having to pay royalties.)Beats everything in my book, go Firefox.
Actually, even Firefox isn't fully web standard compliant (although it's quite close). Chrome and Opera fully adhere to web standards, Firefox doesn't.
Firefox isn't the great browser it used to be. Or actually, it still is, but the competition has improved dramatically.
"As it stands now, Internet Explorer 9 isn't expected to be completed until September 2011"
What ? LOL Give me a break, who are they trying to fool ? I bet it is coming out in the final version by the end of the year. I mean, just look at the Windows 7 release schedule, and now look at the competition going on in the browser space. Does anybody really believe IE9 is not coming out thus year, but instead in September 2011 ?!?
It could be IE 39 and I still would not be interested.
"As it stands now, Internet Explorer 9 isn't expected to be completed until September 2011"What ? LOL Give me a break, who are they trying to fool ? I bet it is coming out in the final version by the end of the year. I mean, just look at the Windows 7 release schedule, and now look at the competition going on in the browser space. Does anybody really believe IE9 is not coming out thus year, but instead in September 2011 ?!?
The competition in the browser world has been ignored by MS for years - ever since they pushed Netscape out of the market.
IE has the longest release cycle in the browser world (Safari isn't exactly doing great either btw), so a 2011 launch is possible.
And besides, they still have A LOT of work ahead of them if they want to regain ground. IE9's preview version, without a slowing UI and other features, is marginally faster than FF 4.0 and a lot slower than Chrome and Opera's CURRENT versions. They'll have to speed things up further, give it an attractive UI and improve web standards compliance. IE9's preview is still miles from a competitive product.
And with the EU's ban on bundled software, they'll continue losing market share if they continue to release software as low quality as IE.
Firefox is still better at supporting web standards.And Mozilla actually wants to support free standards.(Standards that everybody can use without having to pay royalties.)Beats everything in my book, go Firefox.
and chrome and opera beat firefox.................
The only thing that is remotely good about IE is that the Trident engine is what almost all websites are designed for. Other than that, it's not that impressive. I prefer Opera.
Just my two cents.
I just don't get it, xbox live and windows 7 are awesome, and yet windows live and explorer are really terrible pieces of software, usable I'll grant you that but otherwise they are blown away by everything else on the market(steam, for example only has 13 people developing it and its the only drm I'll let on my comp.)
I personally use IE (right now too).. Firefox and Chrome are good on computers with less or older resources. IE runs great on better hardware and is in fact faster than FF and Chrome on such computers because it is OS built-in (some resource are already loaded with the OS itself).