Microsoft announced a "platform preview" of IE 9 back in March. The Platform Preview was basically the IE 9 rendering engine presented in a plain window--no toolbars, no extra features. IE 9 will feature better support for new Web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It'll also provide hardware acceleration for rendering graphics and text on a Web page and a faster JavaScript engine for better Web app performance, among other features.
We don't yet know what the IE 9 interface will look like, or what other features it'll have, so we'll have to wait until next month for that.
For more on Microsoft's "Beauty of the Web" IE 9 launch event, see the Windows Team Blog. And see our earlier post on the IE 9 Platform Preview for additional details.
[Windows Team Blog via Engadget]
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