Just one week after Microsoft unveiled its IE9 release candidate, there have already been over 2 million downloads of the new browser. Microsoft released the IE9 RC at a February 10th event in San Francisco, and is the last step before final release to the Web.
IE9 supports all CSS 3 selectors, improved JavaScript performance, and embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System.It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite.
Together with hardware accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline.
Microsoft has not yet released any information as to when the final public release version will hit the web. But the IE9 beta is available for download at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
Via PC Mag
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