Internet Explorer 9 Beta Scheduled for September

[Regulas]

It could be IE 39 and I still would not be interested.

 

[Silmarunya]

[citation][nom]tpi2007[/nom]"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 ?!?[/citation]

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.

 

[luke904]

[citation][nom]annymmo[/nom]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.[/citation]

and chrome and opera beat firefox.................

 

[zain_asad]

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.

 

[braneman]

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.)

 

[swell9]

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).