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Microsoft set to announce Internet Explorer 9 plans
Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer.
According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set to unveil the software giants plans for Internet Explorer 9 tomorrow. Neowin understands that the company is planning a technical preview of Internet Explorer 9 for developers and customers, but that the bits and preview may not be available immediately.
Scott Guthrie is also set to announce Silverlight 4 plans tomorrow, further pushing the "3 screens and a cloud" vision that Microsoft believes in currently. The software giant sees data and services available across the PC, the phone and TVs. Internet Explorer 9 and Silverlight 4 are essential elements of this vision.
Neowin will be live blogging the day 2 keynote tomorrow so stay tuned for all the announcements.
Update: It's likely that the technical preview will be available at CES 2010 or Mix 2010.
Comments (86)
njn007 - 17 November 2009 - 16:55
I'm glad that there will be details about Silverlight 4. Otherwise, I really don't care about IE 9. The only part I care about is that pretty soon they'll be on 10. Maybe they'll start using roman numerals!
Sure I'd download the technical preview, but I'm sure not a lot is coming.
cabron - 17 November 2009 - 17:28
I am pretty sure that you will not see anything new or amazing between ie8 and ie9
+dead.cell - 17 November 2009 - 17:42
And I'm pretty sure that's just your opinion.
+TCLN Ryster - 17 November 2009 - 17:42
I'd sure like a crystal ball such as yours, where can I get one from please?
The truth is that you have absolutely NO CLUE what's going to be in IE9 so you're not "pretty sure" at all.
Saying there will be nothing new in IE9 is an exceptionally stupid comment to make if you ask me.
+Northgrove - 17 November 2009 - 18:01
MS has actually become more serious about IE lately, so I wouldn't be so sure.
Dear God, please let it improve on what IE 8 started about standards support. SVG plz?
neodorian - 17 November 2009 - 18:15
Sure I'd download the technical preview, but I'm sure not a lot is coming.
Nah, Apple will sue if they call it IE X.
GP007 - 17 November 2009 - 18:43
I wouldn't be surprised if IE9 passes acid3 just so they can rush out a acid4 test and we can start this cycle over yet again.
Premvik - 18 November 2009 - 01:13
For normal user like me, who doesn't care about any of these stuff like acid1..X, IE is good if you are comparing with other past IE release and some other available in market, but FF rocks.
Premvik - 18 November 2009 - 01:13
sorry double post.. facing problem with internet-connection/IE8 so clicked post two times :-)
dnagroove - 18 November 2009 - 04:33
The truth is that you have absolutely NO CLUE what's going to be in IE9 so you're not "pretty sure" at all.
Saying there will be nothing new in IE9 is an exceptionally stupid comment to make if you ask me.
Well, considering past IE releases, you don't need a crystal ball to have exceptionally low expectations. I agree with njn007, my expectations of IE9 aren't high and I don't think anyone can blame either of us of having them.
Everyone held their breath at IE8's release and it turned out the improvements were so mild, not many even noticed them (hence low usage stats). Not to mention the fact that they actually made a few things worse. There's nothing 'really stupid' about not expecting much when it comes to IE.
torrentthief - 17 November 2009 - 17:02
all i want is silverlight 64bit and IE9 to have built in h264, aac, ogg, theora playback and i'll be happy then youtube can switch to h264 instead of flash and all will be well:) Chrome will be getting h264 built in, opera and firefox wont as they would have to pay for fees, maybe apple and microsoft could pay for the h264 licensing for them tho, this would then slowly kill off crappy flash.
boogerjones - 17 November 2009 - 18:11
You realize that Youtube flash videos can play h.264 content, right?
torrentthief - 17 November 2009 - 20:03
yes but flash is jerky as hell, plain h264 doesn't have this problem, the problem like with adobe.
The_Decryptor - 18 November 2009 - 05:02
The problem is how it decodes. Flash 10.1 decodes H.264 much faster than 10 because it does it on hardware.
The framework MS uses also does hardware decoding if it's capable of it.
Inklin - 17 November 2009 - 17:10
IE9 will probably still not even come close to passing acid 3 no doubt.
It's not even worth thinking about. IE8 is bad enough, it takes ages for it to load a new tab with 'connecting...'
Silverlight 4 will be good, This PC can only run Silverlight 1 as the new silverlight needs SSE support.
GreyWolf - 17 November 2009 - 17:13
You have a bad addon if your tabs are opening slowly...
Inklin - 17 November 2009 - 17:16
Even with no addons, was doing the same on my uncles laptop, I've heard about lots of people with the tab problem.
Chewbob - 17 November 2009 - 17:18
When I had Vista, opening a new tab was slow as hell (even with no addons) and it is still slow on my fresh install of Windows 7.
artfuldodga - 17 November 2009 - 17:18
bad addons or huge spyware protection lists can cause this
Inklin - 17 November 2009 - 17:21
It shouldn't though, even if it is that. IE8 when it was in beta was fine but as soon as it went RTM it's slow and clunky.