IE9 Final to Launch 14th March

[z3r010]

I mentioned last month that we would be down in Austin, TX for SXSW. Since then there has been plenty of speculation and interest as to what might be happening. Exactly twelve months from the first Platform Preview of IE9, on Monday March 14th we will celebrate the developers and designers who are making a more beautiful web for all of us. We will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 for download beginning at 9 p.m. Pacific.

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We will automatically update IE9 beta users to the IE9 RC. After the final release, we will automatically update IE9 RC users to the final build.

blogs.msdn.com

 

[Gornot]

Big like
Gotta make a note of it

 

[wds7]

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

 

[G1LLY]

Nice, IE9 is a beast in terms of Hardware Acceleration

Can you integrate IE9 into Windows 7 setup, it would be nice to have a SP1 ISO with IE9 installed?

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

I was happy that MS fixed many things in the RC and will be glad to have the IE 9 RTW and FF RTW shortly afterwards. Now onwards to the Beta launch of Windows 8 (Next)

 

[andyparks]

keep them coming ms

 

[Ryan2320]

Very Nice,

Can't wait for the final release!!

Ryan

 

[Darician]

Very happy to hear the final release is coming on Monday. Excellent work MS.

 

[Mashed1316]

I'm interested to test it, but after the 14th because i want the RTW (the same case for Firefox 4)

I don't like to see comparisons, i've seen a couple so far, and one is saying that IE9 kicks FF4's behind, and the other, says the exact opposite! i'd like to test it myself to see who is the winner (in my book)

Don't know what you guys think

 

[wds7]

OK .. I'm ready for ie9 RTM ...Should i uninstall the RC now ......?

 

[Fayla]

Doesn't IE9 use hardware rendering and FF4 software rendering? If that is the case, there probably won't be a definite answer (everyone has different hardware.)

In any case, security / privacy matters more to me than ms performance measures. So I'll be sticking with Firefox as my main and IE as backup, a very nice backup it will be though.

I'm interested to test it, but after the 14th because i want the RTW (the same case for Firefox 4)

I don't like to see comparisons, i've seen a couple so far, and one is saying that IE9 kicks FF4's behind, and the other, says the exact opposite! i'd like to test it myself to see who is the winner (in my book)

Don't know what you guys think

 

[Orbital Shark]

John, you d'man!

Thanks for the info...Here's hoping that the final release sorts out it's performance lag...

 

[smiths22]

Great expect firefox 4 same date or even before.

 

[galaxys]

Great news...looking forward to it's release! cool

 

[Airbot]

Doesn't IE9 use hardware rendering and FF4 software rendering? If that is the case, there probably won't be a definite answer (everyone has different hardware.)

IE9 and FF 4 both have Hardware Acceleration options.

 

[Fayla]

Then they're even in that respect, that's good to have clarified.

Doesn't IE9 use hardware rendering and FF4 software rendering? If that is the case, there probably won't be a definite answer (everyone has different hardware.)

IE9 and FF 4 both have Hardware Acceleration options.

 

[Ciara]

Thats about 1pm on Monday March 14th UK Time, looking forward to it

 

[z3r010]

No it's not, it's more like 5am Tuesday morning.

 

[Ciara]

Oh sorry I must be looking at the wrong time for pacific, thought it was -8 hours.

 

[z3r010]

It is, they are 8 hours behind us.