Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 Preview

By Marcus Yam
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A perfect 10, I'd say.

While the Internet Explorer user base is just switching to IE9, Microsoft today unveiled the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 at MIX11. In his keynote, Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, outlined how IE10 builds on the native HTML5 support delivered in IE9.

“The only native experience of HTML5 on the Web today is on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9,” Hachamovitch said. “With Internet Explorer 9, websites can take advantage of the power of modern hardware and a modern operating system and deliver experiences that were not possible a year ago. Internet Explorer 10 will push the boundaries of what developers can do on the Web even further.”

The first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 includes support for additional standards, such as CSS3 Gradients on background images and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout.

Developers can download the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview and provide direct feedback through new code refreshes approximately every 12 weeks.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
33 Comments Comment from the forums
  • DarthPiggie
    Already?!!
    It still won't pull from chrome though...
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  • joytech22
    What already?

    That's not cool MS.. not cool..
    Okay maybe a little curious.

    If it's any faster than IE9 I'll soil myself, IE9 performs on average close to that of Chrome and FF while out performing both at page load times.
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  • nisallik
    DarthPiggieAlready?!!It still won't pull from chrome though...
    What do you mean "Already?!!!"

    Isn't FireFox releasing FireFox 5 next month? ;p
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  • nisallik
    Err... Exchange the first FireFox with Mozilla.
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  • meat81
    joytech22What already?That's not cool MS.. not cool..Okay maybe a little curious.If it's any faster than IE9 I'll soil myself, IE9 performs on average close to that of Chrome and FF while out performing both at page load times.
    not cool? why not, these are free products
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  • Netherscourge
    Seems like everyone is following Apple down the "release a new version of the same product every year and add 1 or 2 new features to try and sell it to the zombie masses who won't even use half of the original features in the previous version to begin with" philosophy.

    Works for Apple, though. So I guess that's the way to go...?

    /sigh

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  • So it should be!

    Microsoft needs to pick the pace up and is showing us it is!
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  • footsoldier
    NetherscourgeSeems like everyone is following Apple down the "release a new version of the same product every year and add 1 or 2 new features to try and sell it to the zombie masses who won't even use half of the original features in the previous version to begin with" philosophy.Works for Apple, though. So I guess that's the way to go...?/sigh
    It's free, why not? i think frequent update is good, rather than updating it once a year
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  • jerrspud
    yeah!! I can waste my time with tweets that aren't cut off and 500 fish. Tom's and my email will still work right?
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  • damasvara
    Honestly, I'm more interested on the girl with that "e" shirt than the browser itself... :lol:
    Reply