The current release of IE9 is just a developer preview. It shows off the new engine, but has a really basic interface and is not intended to be your default browser yet.
IE9 has an overhauled Javascript engine which brings its performance much closer to the competition. It also has GPU acceleration!!!
This should greatly improve the performance of the complex sites like online maps (especially when you enable a bunch of layers). This is an awsome feature. Firefox already has a developer preview with this feature,but no word on when Chrome will get it. To my surprise though, many of the IE9 demos rn pretty decent on Chrome. That may be due to me running it on a fast CPU. But there is a massive difference on the flying image test.
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