Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9

After four platform previews aimed at demonstrating the power of the underlying Internet Explorer 9 engine to developers, Microsoft is ready to unveil a public beta of the IE9 Web browser on September 15. Many organizations are still struggling with the decision to move from IE6 to IE8, so what should businesses expect from the new Microsoft browser?

While developers have had months to play under the hood, Microsoft has not yet revealed what the actual IE9 browser interface will look like. Based on some of the IE8 feedback, and the trend competing browsers like Chrome and Firefox have been following, I would expect a cleaner, simpler interface.

Users generally want the browser to just be a Web browser. The performance of the browser–both the speed at which it renders each visited page, and compatibility with industry standards so that Web pages just work–are significantly more important factors than bells and whistles, and whiz-bang features.

Based on what we know so far from the IE9 platform previews, the latest Microsoft browser has fully embraced HTML5, and has a native JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra". Chakra, combined with features like hardware-accelerated graphics help IE9 to be blazing fast.

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