Microsoft’s mid-March Mix 2010 is filling out nicely! Giving us all sorts of nifty information that we really haven’t been talking about much.
Yesterday, the guys from Redmond told us with lots of remaining questions about Windows Phone 7 after yesterday’s unveiling that “all will become clear at Mix.” Now Microsoft is promising to share more details about Internet Explorer (IE) 9 at its designer/developer event, as well.
Microsoft showed off some IE9 powers at the Professional Developers Conference back in November of 2009, and at that time, company officials shared how long a road ahead Microsoft had to make the next version of its browser more standards-compliant, acknowledging that an internal test build was not performing well against the ACID test benchmarks. Microsoft officials also shared that IE 9 would include hardware-accelerated rendering capabilities.
According to a February 16 update on the Mix 10 blog, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch will be keynoting Mix in Vegas next month to “talk about changes and improvements that have been made to Internet Explorer 9 since PDC09.”
To me, that seems that it might be just about time for an early build of IE9 to be released sometime during the mid-March Mix. Obviously a ship date for IE9 has not been shared, but apparently a lot of people are hoping for it before the end of 2010. Then again a lot are thinking it will come out closer to Windows 8. Rumors are rumors, so who really knows what is going to happen in the end. We will just have to wait and see.
