IE9 Platform preview available for download

On the second day of MIX10, Microsoft has made available to download platform preview the first release of Internet Explorer 9.It is currently up for grabs for Microsoft.

This preview is designed especially for developers and not for end users. As a developer , you will be happy to know that IE9 includes developer tools by default and no back button for end users. General Manager Dean Hachamovitch was on MIX10 specially to provide a key note on Internet Explorer 9.

Currently first bits of IE9 are available for download and are named as Platform Preview. IE9 will be very first browser to take standard web patterns that developers use and run them on modern PCs. IE9 also brings expanded support with HTML-5 and hardware accelerated graphics and text with newly enabled JavaScript engine designed specially to boost the performance of the browser. With addition of NVDIA GPUs IE9 removes glass ceiling for web developers, enabling them to build basically high performance web applications.

The new JavaScript engine enabled for IE9 was codenamed Chakra, and that it delivers level of performance almost on par with it rivals.

TO download IE9 Platform Preview click here