Microsoft introduced the Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9 and gave a lot of important details in its next browser. The programs, IE9 manage the HTML 5, the direct 2D and have a new JavaScript engine.

New JavaScript engine and improved resource management
Even if the new engine is still in precarious condition, his performance greatly exceed those of IE8. It was not very difficult some would say and it is true that the current browser Redmond suffers from poor performance. IE9 seems to rectify the situation and if the beta is so far behind Chrome, Safari and Opera 10.5, it is already over Firefox 3.6. To achieve their ends, the JavaScript engine is now a thread independent of the browser and it will run even on a core separated if possible. The goal is to better leverage multi-core processors that are often poorly operated one of the most used applications.

Since we're on the topic of managing hardware browser, it is interesting to note qu'IE9 uses Direct 2D and ipso facto the GPU to accelerate the display of text, graphics and video.

Microsoft opens web standards
Microsoft has also been very frank with the weaknesses of its platform release. For example, he does not hesitate to acknowledge that for now, IE9 has a score of 55% in Acid3 (which measures the browser compatibility with web standards). It is a change in your radical Redmond crying in early 2009, who would listen, qu'IE8 did not pass voluntarily Acid 3 and displays a score ridiculous 20/100, because the standards in question were not all completed and it was therefore normal.

Regarding standards and the firm's Steve Ballmer announced the management of HTML5, and the support of CSS3, vector graphics (SVG), the parsing XHTML and video codecs (H.264/MPEG4) and audio (MP3/AAC).

Microsoft has also announced opening up to the open source community with investments supporting the development of the JavaScript library jQuery, which manages the interaction between JavaScript and HTML in order to simplify. The company also said it would improve interoperability between the library and ASP.NET, so that. NET developers can more easily incorporate functionality jQuery. It will also distribute the library with Visual Basic 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 and propose a template engine for the team in charge of developing the library to facilitate the creation of Web applications.
Microsoft spends status frog than prince
Redmond seems to wake up and shows a willingness to advance the web and its standards, rather than release a browser that acts as an intruder.So an announcement very positive and a complete change of behavior.The fact that the browser Steve Ballmer runs the HTML5 could also be a blow to the flash . A presentation of Microsoft during the conference was to show a YouTube video on IE9 without using a flash plugin, since the browser was appealing to HTML5.

Many consider that this standard and H.264 are well placed to take the lead. However, Internet Explorer is a clear majority on the browser market; we waited to see what Microsoft would emerge to take notice. So it should not sell the skin of the bear before killing, the use of the HTML5 in principle more effective than the flash could change the landscape of the web, as hope Steve Jobs. We are delighted that Microsoft has finally decided to release a product that is able to compete with the competition, at least on paper. It seems that sticks to the European Commission forced Microsoft to open Windows users to other browsers have brought good results and has forced the firm to recover.

Microsoft will continue to update the preview every eight weeks until the release of the RC. The curious can download it here, but we wish to caution you that the version in question is mainly for developers and it is far from over, which is normal at this point.