For all of Microsoft's talk of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, we've heard precious little about the Windows 7 version beyond the certainty that it was coming. Eventually. Someday. The company is partly putting that anxiety to bed with word that IE 10 should be available for the Metrophobic in mid-November, but only in a preview version -- a possible sign that Microsoft's Windows 8 RTM deadline prevented the concurrent platform releases we've grown accustomed to in recent years. The team in Redmond is hinging its launch of a finished Windows 7 build on the feedback it gets, so we'd suggest that those willing to experiment with a new browser (but not a new OS) still give IE 10 a shot next month.
Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) is the next version of Internet Explorer developed by Microsoft, and the successor to Internet Explorer 9. On 12 April 2011, Microsoft released the first "IE10 Platform Preview", which runs only on Windows 7 and later.[2][3] While the second platform preview was also available for Windows 7 and later, subsequent platform previews run only on Windows 8. The release came four weeks after the final release of Internet Explorer 9.[4] IE10 expands on Internet Explorer 9 functionality in regards to CSS3 support, hardware acceleration,[5] and HTML5 support.
On Windows 8, it will be divided into two versions with different user interfaces: a new Metro app that will not support plug-ins, and a traditional desktop application that will retain plug-in support.[6] On 64-bit versions of Windows 8, the Metro version of IE10 will be the 64-bit version of the browser by default
Internet Explorer 10 was first announced on 12 April 2011 at the MIX 11 conference in Las Vegas.[8] In this conference, Microsoft showcased a demo version of Internet Explorer 10 along with a demo version of Windows 8.[9] On the same day, a Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 10 was released on the Microsoft Internet Explorer Test Drive website.[5] It only supports Windows 7; later platform previews only support Windows 8. A new preview will be available for Windows 7 in mid-November.[10]
Reviewers' responses to the release of Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview were varied; however, they noted how soon (29 days) after the release of Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft talking about the next version. While Don Reisinger of eWeeklisted his requested features for the next version, Michael Muchmore of PC Magazine tested Platform Preview 1's performance and HTML5 support with both Microsoft's and third-parties' test suites. In his test, Platform Preview 1 performed better than Internet Explorer 9 but not always better than the competing web browsers.[11][12]
On 13 September 2011, Microsoft released Windows Developer Preview to the general public, which came with Internet Explorer Developer Preview (the first full browser incarnation of Internet Explorer 10).[13] Although Internet Explorer is the last major web browser – among Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari – to support spell checking, it is the first desktop browser on Windows to support autocorrection.[14][15][16][17]
On the ECMAScript 5.1 Standards Conformance Test 262,[18] Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview fails 1 test out of 11571 and passes the others.[citation needed] Test 262 is still undergoing active development and is not yet complete.
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