IE9 Beta Coming in September!

[Jake]

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner revealed today at the company's annual financial analyst meeting that the first beta of the Internet Explorer 9 Web browser is planned for release in September. This is a little later than expected; leaked documents that emerged last month pointed at an August release date for the beta.

Some apparently authentic screenshots of Internet Explorer 9 have leaked, though perhaps surprisingly, they show few changes from the current version. Microsoft has shipped three platform previews to show off the Internet Explorer 9 engine, but these previews used a simple, bare-bones interface; the company wanted to wait before revealing Internet Explorer 9's look and feel. If the new browser really is just a minor evolution of the old browser's interface, that decision seems a little peculiar.

The new browser is eagerly anticipated, especially by Web developers; Internet Explorer 9 is a big improvement on Internet Explorer 8, with considerably improved standards compliance and functionality. News of the beta is certainly welcome, but there's still a marked contrast between Microsoft's release policy and the more frequent updates of browsers like Firefox and Chrome. For all of its improvements, there's a good chance that Microsoft's browser will have been surpassed by its competition by the time it finally ships.

No release date has been announced, but most believe that the final version will not arrive until 2011.

[javajolt]

Re: IE9 Beta Coming in September!

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner at the Financial Analyst Meeting today has revealed that the Redmond based company is planning to drop a beta version of Internet Explorer 9 sometime in September of this year. Sources at Neowin has given September 2nd as the possible date for the release.

A Chinese website, which goes by the name of cnBeta has managed to get its hands on some leaked screenshots which shows off the new Download Manager, and Google Chrome like “Popular Sites” page in action. While most of the UI is currently same as its predecessor, according to Tom Warren of Neowin, IE 9 will get a much needed facelift before it is released to public.

1. Installation

As the closed beta version of the interface is simple to install, agree to the use agreement, will automatically install, about 5 minutes, the installation is complete.



2. Experience

After installation, Windows beta version of mark appeared



IE9 new icon, personal feel for Microsoft's style of art



 About dialog box



 In general, IE9 improvements for IE8 is not a big one. All the interface is almost the same, the following highlights the use of interface improvements.

One improvement: Popular Website

In the open new tab, Chrome offers a similar and popular site features a page to display frequently visited 10 sites.


Most Popular Sites page in Internet Explorer 9

Improvement 2: Select Add



Improved Add-enabled features can be activated immediately without the need to refresh the page related to plug-in

Improvement 3: Download Window


New Download Manager in Internet Explorer 9

3. Performance and standards support

As an internal test version, so for information purposes only and do not represent the official version of the performance







cnBeta In-House
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Update: According to Softpedia's question, this site's solemn commitment to this version is true, do not intend to manufacture counterfeit versions need not speculation, but limited to confidentiality we can not announce more details on this product, so as not to bring more Kunrao, thank you.

[belongcyl]

i am still useing ie6.0

and sometime use firefox

[Jake]

The entire forum would encourage you to update to IE8, and keep Firefox up-to-date as soon as possible.

Actually the entire internet would want that, badly. 

[javajolt]

I just saw your signature and that is so true.  My favorite set of numbers.