Internet Explorer 9
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| Internet Explorer 9 | |
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| Released for | Windows Vista - Windows 7 |
| Support end | Probably until 2016 |
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Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the current version of the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. The first Platform Preview with the build number of 7745.6019 was released on 16th March 2010, the final build with the build tag of 9.0.8112.16421 was released to web on 14th March 2011. It is known that Windows 8 won't include IE9, but rather the next version, Internet Explorer 10.
Release History
| Version | Release | ACID | Notable changes | |
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| Platform Preview 1 | 1.9.7745.6019 | 2010-03-16 | 55/100 | Support for CSS3 and SVG, new JavaScript engine Chakra |
| Platform Preview 2 | 1.9.7766.6000 | 2010-05-05 | 68/100 | Inproved JavaScript performance |
| Platform Preview 3 | 1.9.7874.6000 | 2010-06-23 | 83/100 | HTML5: audio, video, canvas tags, WOFF |
| Platform Preview 4 | 1.9.7916.6000 | 2010-08-04 | 95/100 | JavaScript engine as core component |
| Platform Preview 5 | 1.9.7930.16406 | 2010-09-15 | 95/100 | New icon |
| Public Beta | 9.0.7930.16406 | (?) | 95/100 | Heavy UI modifications |
| Platform Preview 6 | 1.9.8006.6000 | 2010-10-28 | 95/100 | CSS3 2D transforms, HTML5 semantic tags |
| Platform Preview 7 | 1.9.8023.6000 | 2010-11-17 | 95/100 | Improved JavaScript performance |
| Platform Preview 8 | 1.9.8080.16413 | 2011-02-10 | 95/100 | Improved general performance and interop, user location tracking |
| Release Candidate | 9.0.8080.16413 | 2010-11-17 | 95/100 | Improved general performance, slight UI changes, improved standard compliancy, tab rows |
| RTW | 9.0.8112.16421 | 2011-03-14 | 95/100 | Improved general performance and Tracking Protection, improved pinning |
