The six weeks available for beta version of Microsoft's next browser Internet Explorer 9 has now been downloaded more than ten million copies. This gave the software giant on Friday announced. In addition, a new IE9 Platform Preview of the public. Exactly when the final version is published, is not yet known. Microsoft had the first beta version of Internet Explorer 9 on 15 September 2010 published.

The software giant stressed that in the history of the company nor any other version of a browser was in this period often downloaded by users. In the same period the previous Internet Explorer 8, in its beta phase to only 6.25 million downloads. The IE9-beta, however, was already within the first 48 hours after the publication of two million copies have been downloaded.

In addition, Microsoft has at its developer conference Professional Developers Conference 2010 PDC), a sixth of the Internet Explorer Platform Preview 9 released (. In the Platform Preview is just around the actual browser engine with minimal controls, it serves as a preview to developers for testing purposes. The new Platform Preview includes a number of innovations. Thus, according to Microsoft is now the standard 2D transformations and semantic tags support for CSS3. Furthermore, the JavaScript engine has been re-accelerated. The SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark preliminary version, the new IE before 9 Beta and Firefox 4 Beta 6, but still behind Opera 10.6, Chrome 7 and the developer version of Chrome 8th

With the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 followed several goals: the browser more standards to meet, get a refined interface and play in terms of speed back to the front. The new JavaScript engine Chakra is compared to Internet Explorer 8 is significantly faster. Users of Windows XP, however, can not benefit from the improvements because the Internet Explorer 7 or 9 Windows Vista SP2 requires. This pretty much leaves many users from outside - according to the latest statistics from Net Applications, Windows XP with a global market share from the current 60 percent, still the most widely used operating system by far.