The beta version of IE9 will be released to the public on Sept. 15 and no date has been released as to when the production version will be released but don't look for it until next spring and that depends on how the beta testing goes.
Also IE9 will not run on machines running Windows XP. This is due to a new hardware acceleration feature of the browser that uses a version of DirectX only available in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
A new JavaScript engine will be in the new version that will make IE run much faster and in early testing is said to be faster than the current version of FoxFire.
I agree that you should not download the beta version as you may run into problems or want to play. And NEVER install a beta on your primary PC.
I ran the first beta of IE8 when it was first released and found that some of the old features in IE7 had quit working and this is common for the first release of a beta. They were added back in as newer beta's were released.
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