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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:29 pm Post subject: Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Slated for March 14 Release |
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Microsoft is prepping to release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, starting at 9 p.m. PST.
According to a March 9 posting on The Windows Blog, that final launch date would be exactly 12 months from the first Platform Preview of IE9, the company’s newest browser and its latest hope in deflecting competition from aggressive upstarts such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Microsoft recently made the Release Candidate for IE9 available at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com. That RC incorporated some 17,000 pieces of user feedback, with an eye toward building on the browser’s beta advances in performance, standards, user experience, privacy and safety. Some 25 million people downloaded the beta.
The Release Candidate supported geo-location, WebM video (with the installation of a V8 code on Windows), and playback of H.264-encoded video using the HTML5 video tag. According to the SunSpider benchmark, the RC is also 35 percent faster than IE9 beta.
At the same time Microsoft’s heralding the new, it’s also attempting to slam a stake through the heart of the old: The company recently launched a Website, “The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown,” that encourages users to migrate from the increasingly antiquated and vulnerable browser. Despite possessing only a tiny market share in the United States (2.9 percent), IE6 continues to hold a significant portion of the market in countries such as China (34.5 percent) and South Korea (24.8 percent).
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