08-15-2010, 07:06 AM
Quote:On Thursday afternoon, Microsoft sent out invitations to the launch of Internet Explorer 9 beta on Sept. 15, in San Francisco. The invitation to the event, dubbed "Beauty of the Web," included an HTML5 invitation site with an animated word game taking advantage of that emerging set of Web standards.
Microsoft had previously disclosed that it would release an IE9 beta in September.
Since March, the software giant has released four "platform previews," which lacked a true user interface with conveniences like bookmarks, search, and history. And just last week, the fourth preview was released, with the accompanying blog post by Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch noting that it would be the last platform preview before the beta phase. He also noted that the previews had been downloaded 2.5 million times, and the accompanying test site of demos had received over 20 million visits.
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