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No-one cares if the browser is modern right now. In 2 years, when Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, et.al. have moved on and are even more awesome, we will be stuck with the exact same IE 9 that was released today (sans security fixes).

Microsoft has taught me to dread Internet Explorer, and I see no reason not to feel the same way with this one.

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Right, we're getting a nice snapshot of technology with IE9, and if that doesn't include Web Workers or some other feature, fine. But the key advantage of Chrome is that WebGL barely worked a few weeks ago, it's better now, and it will be much better a few weeks in the future. Without agressive updating, IE9 will be out of date in a very real way by September.

Seriously. In a few months when every other browser follows even more HTML5 standards, has a faster JS engine, etc - IE9 will still be the same as it is today.

They really need to get with the program and until they release a more public release timeline I'm going to continue to tell people to avoid using it.

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