You can install the preview of IE 9 now
YoKenny and other IE fans will be very happy today 
Does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP 2…Too bad
… and it’s a platform preview, not a browser preview ;D
IE blows, just say “No” and get Firefox today! ;D
@ Logos
Yes. It was a platform preview. Thanks for pointing it out.
But this sucks. Very slow.
I would rather stick with my Mozilla Minefield
;D ;D ;D
I like playing SVG–oids
Internet Explorer 9 – Developer preview Overview
Overall the preview of IE 9 is great , if this is what Microsoft is bringing out in future , it’s good bye other browsers for mehttp://senseapplied.com/index.php/internet-explorer-9-developer-preview-overview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=internet-explorer-9-developer-preview-overview
This is really better than IE 8
SAY GOODBYE TO WINDOWS XP FOREVER 
Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch all but confirmed today that the next version of Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, will not be supported on Windows XP.
Hachamovitch stopped short of explicitly saying that XP would not be supported, but said that building a “modern browser” required a “modern operating system.” IE9 will be heavily dependent on hardware acceleration, courtesy of its use of Direct2D and DirectWrite; neither API is available on Windows XP.
That IE9 would use these features has been known since last year’s PDC, and so the lack of XP support should come as a surprise to few. Nonetheless, there are sure to be some who will gripe that the newest browser (not likely to hit until next year at the earliest) won’t be available for a decade-old operating system.
:‘( so sad to me :’(
maybe i will wait until my comp not working anymore then put it in the junk yard
it cannot be upgraded
@ bong2x
No need to worry.
Firefox future builds will surely support XP… ;D
I am using Mozilla Minefield and it works on XP
;D thank you chris!! im alive again!!!
Good to hear that 
im thinking my comp become useless after a year :-\
It will fit in with the other antiques there. 
good idea i build a museum and i put it as a highlight there!!! with name plate my first and longest life computer ;D
yokenny nice try ;D
What an absolute load of tosh, XP has a legal extended support life cycle until April 2014 that no matter how much they squirm they can’t wriggle out of.
IE9 has nothing to do with XP the two are separate entities, XP shipped with IE6 and believe it or not that too has to be supported until the end of the same XP extended support life cycle also. IE7 is still getting support as I believe that came with Vista. IE8 is still supported, h*ll the paint on it is still drying out.
Yet here we are with MS announcing IE9 and wanting to have everyone switch to it to use an underhand, devious, misrepresentation that XP is dead because of the future release of IE9 is total FUD, rubbish, tosh, c**p.
Microsoft has been trying to kill XP in this FUD way since Vista was first announced, yet even now XP has around 60% market share
IE6 has been around, forever, and still going strong. Not to worry, as DavidR stated. They (Microsoft) will figure out what they need to do to get IE9 to work with XP, when the time comes, I’m sure of that. I have a sample version of IE9 and am testing it. Sorry everyone is always so down on Internet Explorer, as well as Windows XP. When a new version of IE is introduced, as with any new product, it’s always out with the older version of a system, and in with the new. It just doesn’t work that way.
I happen to love all versions of IE. They have their share of problems, that’s true. I’ve been using different versions of them, for a very long time, along with other browsers, and I just guess I’ve been lucky with each version. Don’t worry Chris, it will be just fine.
XP has around 60% market share
nothing to be really proud of : … on the users’ side. But again, I must have been among the lucky ones (0.000000000001% or what do you reckon?) who ditched XP for Vista and had everything up and running on a 2003 computer, printer, wifi, graphics etc…while I could read everywhere that Vista was lame, insecure, even trojan-ware (it’s true I’ve read it ).
@ DavidR
It is not only IE 9 but before April 2014 USB 3.0 is going to be common and right now Windows XP 3 don’t support it and as far as I know, it is never going to be supported. >:(
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.
By early 2011 all hard drives will use an “advanced format” that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.
512-byte sectors have been the norm for decades. The 512-byte size was itself inherited from floppy disks, making it an even older historical artifact. The age of this standard means that it’s baked in to a lot of important software: PC BIOSes, operating systems, and the boot loaders that hand control from the BIOS to the operating system. All of this makes migration to a new standard difficult.
Instead of storing 512-byte sectors, hard disks will start using 4096-byte sectors. 4096 is a good size for this kind of thing. For one, it matches the standard size of allocation units in the NTFS filesystem, which nowadays is probably the most widely used filesystem on personal computers. Secondly, it matches the standard size of memory pages on x86 systems. Memory allocations on x86 systems are generally done in multiples of 4096 bytes, and correspondingly, many disk operations (such as reading to or from the pagefile, or reading in executable programs), which interact intimately with the memory system, are equally done in multiples of 4096 bytes.
Phoenix produced preliminary BIOS support for the specification in 2005, and Microsoft, for its part, ensured that Windows Vista would support the new sector size. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 all support the new sector size. MacOS X supports it, and Linux kernels since September 2009 also support it.
The big obvious name missing from this list is Windows XP (and its server counterpart, Windows Server 2003). Windows XP (along with old Linux kernels) has, somewhere within its code, a fixed assumption of 512 byte sectors. Try to use it with hard disks with 4096 byte sectors and failure will ensue. :-\
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yeah OK but XP users who spared a few bucks when not buying Vista are very unlikely to acquire new hard disks ;D