14 DAY TRIAL // It’s right about time for the release of a new preview of Internet Explorer 10 if you ask me, although Microsoft is keeping mum on the evolution of the next major iteration of IE. The first Platform Preview of IE10 was released in mid-April 2011, almost immediately after the general availability deadline of Internet Explorer 9.
With IE10 PP1 Microsoft confirmed that the IE9 development strategy had become an established model, especially around early development releases designed to share the evolution of the browser’s core with the world.
IE10 Platform Preview 2 launched in June introducing a variety of enhancements, including such features as HTML5 Parser, HTML5 Sandbox, Web Workers, HTML5 Forms, Media Query Listerners, etc.
There has been nothing but silence on the IE10 front for the last couple of months, and per the PP release pace that the software giant established, a new preview should be offered to early adopters soon.
It’s, of course, almost impossible to say exactly when this happens, and asking Microsoft won’t do much good either.
But as far as I’m concerned, while BUILD is essentially a Windows 8-centric event, Internet Explorer 10 is bound to also have a role to play.
After all, IE10 will be the default browser in Windows 8, as the Redmond company has already confirmed.
BUILD will surely be an excellent time for the IE team to share some additional details on the progress of IE10, and why not, perhaps even Platform Preview 3.
I did ask one of my Internet Explorer contacts for details on what if anything, Microsoft will share at BUILD about Internet Explorer 10, but I have received no information on the matter. But then again, there’s little to no info at all related to BUILD, save for the promise that Windows 8 will revolutionize everything.
Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) Platform Preview 2 (PP2) Build 10.0.1008.16421 is available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows 7 and Windows 7 SP1 is available for download here.