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Internet Explorer 9 developer preview
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Apr 07 15:12:27 2010
IE 9 developer preview: 700,000 downloads so far; next update 'on track'
April 7th, 2010
By Mary Jo Foley
www.zdnet.com
Since Microsoft made available to testers the Internet Explorer (IE) 9
developer preview in mid-March, there have been about 700,000 downloads
of it, according to a source close to the situation, who asked not to be
identified.
IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch, with whom I had a brief phone
conversation on April 7, would not comment on the exact number of IE 9
downloads to date. But he did confirm there has been positive reception
for Microsoft’s next release of IE — a release which will feature HTML 5
support, a new, speedier JavaScript engine and a host of other features.
The first preview was released in U.S. English only, Hachamovitch noted.
The top five biggest downloaders (by country) were the U.S., Brazil,
India, the U.K. and Germany (in descending order), he said. The majority
(50 percent) of testers are hammering on the preview’s speed and
performance benchmarks, Hachamovitch said. Another 27 percent have been
focusing on the Microsoft-provided graphics-centric tests, he said,
while 22 percent have been putting the HTML 5 capabilities of the
preview through its paces.
For the rest of the article see:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5825&tag=wrapper;col1
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