Reference to Internet Explorer 10 Found in IE9
Reference to Internet Explorer 10 Found in IE9
Posted 03/21/2011 at 6:51am
| by Paul Lilly
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Technology is sort of like Father Time, in that it waits for no one. So while you're getting acquainted with Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer 9 browser, the Redmond outfit is already paving a path to IE10, proof of which can be found hidden inside IE9. If you dig deep enough, you'll find a dialog box referencing Microsoft's next-generation browser.
"Internet Explorer 10 is now available. Get the most from the web. Upgrade from Internet Explorer 9 to Internet Explorer 10 for a fast, clean, and more trusted web browsing experience," the dialog box reads."
A Russian website first discovered the dialog box before Windows8Beta.com unearthed the same tidbit in the English language version. What you can take away from this is that IE10 is most likely already in development -- something you can never assume with Microsoft, which waited five years before updating IE6 to IE7 -- and that IE might be getting an upgrade system separate from Windows Update. It's believed that IE10 will be the default browser in Windows 8.
Image Credit: Windows8Beta.com
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MattyMattMatt
March 21, 2011 at 11:15am
The sad thing about IE is, that because it's coupled to the OS, it could ni theory be the fastest and most lightweight and most awesome, yet, somehow, MS manages to fail on all those points, again and again.
IE9 is nice, but it's still years behind Opera.
Eoraptor
March 21, 2011 at 1:47pm
it's years behind everyone. Honestly, download manager? hardware acceleration? a proper add-on environment? You can get some of this stuff not only in every other major browser, but even on some MOBILE browsers now.
M$ is still running 3 years or so behind Mozilla, Chrome, and Opera. There's always going to br a place for windows (or at least therre will be for another decade or so) but unless they get their tumbs out of their orifaces and gets serious about providing truly modern browsers on a regular update cycle, Redmond is going to seriously lose face. (more than they alread have)
kevaskous
March 21, 2011 at 3:19pm
As you say this, try to remember IE9 has the fastest hardware acceleration by several times in magnitude.
nlriehl87
March 21, 2011 at 8:23am
With the possible exception of IE6, tech companies are always preparing for the next version of a product, sometimes before the "new version" is shipped. A good example is when Windows 7 was in RC Microsoft had already begun work on Windows 8.
Neufeldt2002
March 21, 2011 at 8:20am
As nice as it is that MS is finally taking the browser more seriously, I really do wish they would uncouple it from the OS it's self.
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