Microsoft confirms IE9 public beta in September, leaked screenshots, but are they real?

By Ian on July 29, 2010, 11:07:06 AM. | 2 comments

Microsoft had their annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) on July 29, at that meeting, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced the public beta date for Internet Explorer 9. Originally Microsoft planned to have a public beta of Internet Explorer 9 ready for August, however, it was pushed to September, and Neowin suspects that it will come out September 2^nd.

According to Neowin, an Internet Explorer 9 build reveals that the public beta could feature a download manager and greater security control over add-ons. Neowin says they can confirm the leaked screenshots are real, but I myself am somewhat skeptical.

Fishy Acid3 test in screenshot

If you take a gander at the screenshot of the supposed leaked build of Internet Explorer 9 which is showing off the results of the Acid3 test, it shows a result of 53 out of 100, when the latest build of the the IE9 platform preview has a result of 83 out of 100. Also from reading the translated article, they say there is little performance improvement from Internet Explorer 8 to Internet Explorer 9, and we all know that is not true. As this blog post on the IEBlog shows, IE9 platform preview #3 is about 8 times faster than IE8.

The leaked build that Cnbeta supposedly has must be pretty old. Even older than the first IE9 platform preview, since the first preview scored 55 out of 100, 2 higher than the leaked build.

So could this leaked build be real? Yeah, sure, why not. Neowin says they can confirm that those screenshots are real, but whoever confirmed that for them never said how old the leaked IE9 build was.

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