Microsoft today announced a seventh Platform Preview releases of Internet Explorer. In the three weeks since the release of the previous version, developers have the performance of the JavaScript Engine "Chakra" focused on - and report success: According to Microsoft's browser to the now competitive passed by to be the on and complete the relevant viewed as a benchmark Suite SunSpider faster than the competition, so far from Opera 6.10 above was.

After the test results from Microsoft Evangelist Daniel Melanchthon PP7 IE9 needed on the reference computer 216 milliseconds for the test suite. This represents almost three quarters of the time that the Platform Preview 6 requires and less than a fifth of the value of [Correction:] Just a year ago illustrated version of the browser - the order of magnitude faster was again as the current Internet Explorer 8 Comparative figures with other browsers are not currently available yet.

Nevertheless, Microsoft has indicated that the results of JavaScript benchmarks are overrated. These can be compared to good though, but since all the current browser (with exception of IE8) compiling powerful engines use now, are the results of the benchmarks close together, than the fact that the practice would result in noticeable differences. Forward-looking likely in IE9 imported hardware acceleration when rendering his, who is also experimenting with Mozilla and Google, as well as the API to measure rendering performance.

The beta version of the IE9 is not affected by the update, the Platform Preview installed parallel to the existing Internet Explorer on Vista and Windows 7 computers. Next, probably with a release candidate of the browser to be expected. As with any launch of a new Platform Preview, Microsoft's Internet Explorer Test Drive some tests updated to, three new tests demonstrate the advantages of a fast JavaScript engine.