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The "free" argument is silly anyway. If Microsoft wanted you to have it, they would have made it available to you. They didn't. In other words, it is not free. It's not even available to you.

If Microsoft doesn't want things to leak they should hold on to it more careful.

If Microsoft doesn't want things to leak they should hold on to it more careful.

When you have beta testers, you can only hope they will stick to their NDA. Some do, some don't. Depending on the product, Microsoft does track down people who breach their NDA. An example? The AOE online alpha. Some people leaked information (ie what the game was, screenshots etc), they got:

1. Banned from Xbox live.

2. Banned from Windows Live.

3. MS were looking into legal action.

For a product like IE? I don't think MS really cares...since you can just take the PP7 engine and throw it into the first IE9 beta and you would get the exact same thing as this. Plus everyone already knows about it anyways.

Microsoft have to also be quite open about what they do, since a lot of major corporations / businesses rely on their product...surprise launches won't generally go down well for them.

Exactly, Microsoft knows when giving betas out to developers there's a good chance it will make it into the internet. It's a calculated risk. If they really don't want something to leak they should hold on to it. Or give it to an extremely limited amount of people they are in direct contact with and can be trusted for sure.

I was under the impression that both linking to and discussing pirated software was against the forum rules!

Yes. It's illegal to distribute anything that is copyrighted without permission from the copyright holder. If I create a program and make it available for free on my website, it would still be illegal for you to make it available somewhere else. I'm allowed to do so because I hold the copyright, but you have no such right. Price has zero relevance.

Oh, I know. Piracy has always been okay when it comes to Microsoft products, really. It's just funny.

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Alright...

1. Microsoft is VERY unlikely to take action against Neowin over a build leak of IE9. What's more likely is that someone on the IE team will throw a chair out the window.

2. To the OP, and various other Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/whatever twaddle people who rely on the Russians to get their ****: THEY ARE NOT CALLED 'VIP TESTERS'. Why can't you refer to them appropriately as TAP/OEMs/partners?

Anyway, about to try out the build but I hear that the rendering engine is much improved from the beta, so if a site didn't render correctly in the official release it may here. :)

2. To the OP, and various other Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/whatever twaddle people who rely on the Russians to get their ****: THEY ARE NOT CALLED 'VIP TESTERS'. Why can't you refer to them appropriately as TAP/OEMs/partners?

You forgot Test Pilots ;)

I have problems with this release. While on Facebook, browser just hang and freeze.

Anyone else with this problem?

In the internet explorer options, click that reset to defaults button and let it clean itself up. That usually fixes this symptom for me.

The fact is spellchecking is quite a basic feature and ie9 is the only browser that does not have it, I think the majority would love to have spellcheck.

Unfortunately every bug requesting a spell checker on connect was closed "by design" :(

Time to start making my "Features removed in IE9" list if the UI and customizability are not going to change.

You could customize IE? Really? Since when?

I mean apart from adding / removing a few buttons in IE6 and before, most versions of IE have had very little customizability. Firefox, chrome and Opera are the browsers that you can really customize (firefox being the best in that area of course).

So far so good, it's been working fine for me. The sites i've visted have worked well, haven't noticed any problems with any. You know, if MS doesn't add a spellchecker like everyone wants they still let a 3rd party add it. IE7pro has had one for years, it also does lots of other things that IE7 didn't do back when it came out. I expect a IE9pro of sorts to show up later on, I don't know why MS won't just add one, they could take the one out of Office and use that I guess.

This build is looking look to me. It's seems more responsive than the beta. I wish it did have a spellchecker though, and Microsoft won't give IE9 very much customizability, just like previous versions of Internet Explorer.

Anyway, about to try out the build but I hear that the rendering engine is much improved from the beta, so if a site didn't render correctly in the official release it may here. :)

Yup. I'm seeing better rendering and stability on many sites. I found the initial beta quite crashy on some sites (Facebook, Windows Live Mail) but this seems to have been resolved. Very snappy build. It will definitely tide me over until the RC :)

The Aero busy cursor now keeps spinning correctly in the tab until the page loading is truly complete. I still need a proper progress bar.

Yeah, this is really the only major difference I see. I scanned it with SuperAntiSpyware, MBAM and Comodo Internet Security - it's clean (I can guarantee only about the x64 file from the original link). And I also had to restart after installing, 'cause "some files" were in use or something. Feels a bit slower I guess, but not sure, gotta clean temp files and cookies and test again.

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