Better late than never: Microsoft launches IE dev channel

More than five years after Google launched its Chrome developer channel, offering web developers early access to upcoming Chrome features, Microsoft has finally decided to release a similar offering for Internet Explorer (IE).

Microsoft today launched the Internet Explorer developer channel, a “fully-functioning” web browser that offers developers and early adopters a preview of new IE features before they launch in the mainstream IE release. The dev channel runs independently of Internet Explorer 11, the latest version of IE for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, although you’ll need IE 11 on one of those two operating systems to run the IE dev channel.