Microsoft Makes IE9 Platform Preview 7 Available
Microsoft is allowing developers the chance to check out its seventh Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview
Developers can now check out the seventh platform preview of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser, which boasts a 345 percent improvement in JavaScript performance.
With the new IE9 Platform Preview, Microsoft has increased the JavaScript performance of the browser by 345 percent since its introduction a year ago. IE9’s performance on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark is now 234.6 milliseconds. Microsoft launched IE9 Platform Preview 7 on 17 November.
Millions Of Downloads
Microsoft also said there have been more than 13 million downloads of the IE9 beta since its launch. At PDC 2010, Microsoft said there had been 10 million IE9 downloads. The 2010 PDC ran 28-29 October, just three weeks prior to the release of the seventh platform preview of IE9.
With the new platform preview, Microsoft has introduced new demos on IE Test Drive.
Key demos for users to play focus on are: HTML5 Galactic, Shakespeare’s Tag Cloud and the HTML5 Sudoku Solver game.
The seventh Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is available for download at: www.ietestdrive.com.
