The latest release candidate of Internet Explorer 9 has been out for nearly a month now. I think it’s fair to say that this update as a very welcome change to the Internet Explorer line.
Even more so, the jQuery team has officially promoted IE9 to top-tier browser status within their code base.
But when’s the final release headed our way?
According to Download Squad:
This information tallies nicely with what we already know: Microsoft has said that there will only be one RC, and March 14 very nearly fits the six-week release cycle that Internet Explorer has so far stuck to. Most importantly, though, the IE team is holding a party at SXSW — and parties generally celebrate something.
Note that Microsoft will be pushing out the release via Windows Update so customers should automatically receive it.
There you have it – just enough time to make sure any recent projects are taking advantage of some of the newer features available on the more modern browsers.
(via DownloadSquad.com)
Matthew Snider says
I only use macs, minus work, but I wonder what this will do to IE. I could of sworn they were out of the game totally a while ago, but it seems money keeps pushing a new version out.
Tom McFarlin says
Microsoft is far from being “out of the browser game” and will likely never bow out.
Not even taking to account to the PC market, most organizations that are powered by Microsoft are all running Windows and, thus, Internet Explorer. As such, internal applications are often written targeting that browser specifically because it’s guaranteed to be on all of the machines. There’s a tight coupling that exists and it works – that’s why IE6 is still around.
IE9 is a huge step ahead their previous offerings – it’s not a bad browser, but compared to the latest builds of Firefox 4 and Chrome, it’s still missing some of the newer HTML5 and CSS3 features. Of course, outside of developers, designers, and the techno-savvy, the average Joe doesn’t even know (or likely care) about rounded edges.
To me, this is the next battle in a war that’s been going on for a long time (and will likely continue :)).