IE9 Final to Launch 14th March

Ciara · 10 Mar 2011

Woops I see

... thank you for putting me right. ... have to put my alarm on then :)

MadSupra354 · 10 Mar 2011

Great to hear that the RTW is coming out soon. I've been waiting for it! :)

brianzion · 10 Mar 2011

hi all:)
there is a piece on it at V3.co.uk

Microsoft will officially launch the latest version of Internet Explorer at 5am GMT on 15 March at the South by South West (SXSW) Interactive festival in Austin, texas.
IE9 will have an updated interface focused on maximising the browser window with a single URL and search bar. It will also be possible to pin web sites, or strings of URLs, onto the main Windows task bar***, and a new download manager has been added.

***google chrome has had this option for a long time

Read more: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/20327...#ixzz1GCG7C22E

Read more: Microsoft sets 15 March for official IE9 launch - IT News from V3.co.uk

BugMeister · 10 Mar 2011

wds7 said:

I hope they fix the flash player for final RTM ...
RC stil has flash player problem with some web sites ...

likewise..

..but I wonder how much of this is down to Adobe..

Airbot · 10 Mar 2011

If this final comes out with a huge overlapping "back button" still, I'm going to have a laugh.

toughbook · 10 Mar 2011

Will it update automatically thru WU or will we have to uninstall the RC 1st?

Teerex · 10 Mar 2011

Sure enough, when I asked, Tim Sneath, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Windows and Web Evangelist, “The 64-bit IE 9 RC doesn’t use the Chakra JIT does it? It uses the older, far less efficient one, right?” Sneath replied, “That’s correct–we put all our JIT compiler investment in this release of Chakra into the 32-bit compiler, since that’s the one that is near-universally used today. The 32-bit browser is the default even on 64-bit systems, since almost all add-ons are 32-bit only at this time. The 64-bit version provides no real advantage, since no browser scenario requires access to >2GB of user memory in a single process.”

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Klaw117 · 10 Mar 2011

Wow, seems like everything's happening on March 14. First a Pi Day party at school, then the release of IE9 at around 6 pm EST, then I find out whether or not I've been accepted to MIT at 9:26 pm. Looks like I'll have a lot to look forward to.

Wordsworth · 10 Mar 2011

Airbot said:

If this final comes out with a huge overlapping "back button" still, I'm going to have a laugh.

Me too. And a larger and longer laugh if the Back button is small, and the Forward button huge and overlapping.

DBone · 10 Mar 2011

toughbook said:

Will it update automatically thru WU or will we have to uninstall the RC 1st?

+1??