Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 9 ‘Platform Preview’

March 16, 2010 – Microsoft unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine. In addition, Microsoft demonstrated a new JavaScript engine that uses the multiple cores of today’s modern chips to effectively manage computing resources and improve Web performance by combining increased interoperability with a new JavaScript engine and Direct 2D technology.

“Internet Explorer 9 is the first browser to take standard Web patterns that developers use and run them better on modern PCs through Windows,” Hachamovitch said.

Via: [Microsoft.com]