Brewology

No, I still will not download it.... But, it apparently is going to be a lot nicer on your eyes. Whenever you use any program from Microsoft, they make sure to change up the GUI from what you're used to, to something completely different and that's not going to change with this. Mailas posted some pictures of what IE is supposed to look like in the next version of Windows and I'm suspecting that it will look pretty close to that.
Details are scarce on the subject, but from what I've read, it will not be available on XP!


Here's a picture from the MSND blog for IE. It shows an early build of IE9 beating the FF4 Beta in an HTML 5 test. Beating? I mean slaughtering.

how does chrome stack up on this?

Not sure. They have only posted a few things that referenced Chrome and they had very little to do with speed.

Well right now, in all the stable versions (not betas), and lots of tests, chrome is first, then opera.... firefox comes behind Safari which is 3rd...

isint it out already

Nope. In fact, I think they don't even have a build with the correct GUI to give the developers! :O