IE9 Final to Launch 14th March

[Ciara]

Woops I see ... thank you for putting me right. ... have to put my alarm on then

 

[MadSupra354]

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

 

[brianzion]

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/2032793/microsoft-sets-march-15th-date-ie9-launch-sxsw#ixzz1GCG7C22E


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

 

[BugMeister]

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]

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

 

[toughbook]

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

 

[Teerex]

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.”

:info:

link

 

[Klaw117]

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]

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]

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

+1??

 

[Gornot]

*sigh*

It was already mentioned; yes, the RTW will come through Windows Update for those that have the RC installed.

 

[Airbot]

Yep, mentioned here.

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.

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive...release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx

 

[DBone]

Yep, mentioned here.

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.

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive...release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx

"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."

 

[IntelCoreI3]

i wait many time for this day!
thank you for info.

 

[Teerex]

IE 9 has added some ugly artifacts on some of my Sidebar gadgets, among them the oft-promoted System Monitor. The bug was posted, not fixed in RC either, No word on the final version. The gadgets themselves are probably not gonna be updated.

 

[Andrew254]

i didnt like the new IE9 RC.
isnt microsoft getting ahead of themeselves as far as websites being compatible and all that stuff.
trouble with flash player and them having trouble typing into the message box in twitter and switching from one tab to another, seemed like i had to double click on the tab a few time to get it to change.
anyways. after test driving the free trial of Win 7 enterprise and IE9 on my dell e310 i believe i will just stick to xp.

 

[F1FAN]

ie9 RC was an improvement over the beta but i still find webpage issues in some places. For example youtube. I hope the final will be okay, or if its up to the webste developers.

 

[G1LLY]

Guess we'll find out for sure tomorrow if this is the IE9 RTW build no?

Still can't quite believe IE9 is coming out before Firefox 4 :shock:

 

[s31]

there has been too many bugs in FF4 beta's lol

will try IE9 tomorrow

 

[imeem]

(tmr) time to benchmark