Its interesting to see that when talking about Sunspider benchmark, he specifically pointed out that IE9 preview performs a lot better than IE8 that was shown on the benchmark and even complemented the IE team for doing a good job.
Things like this is why its easy to dislike MSFT and trust Google (despite privacy concerns). I have said this before and I will say it again, IE can be the fastest, most standard compliant and most secure browser out there and I would still not use it.
On the other hand IE team spreads FUD about Chrome: http://geektechnica.com/2010/04/microsoft-continues-its-trad...
Things like this is why its easy to dislike MSFT and trust Google (despite privacy concerns). I have said this before and I will say it again, IE can be the fastest, most standard compliant and most secure browser out there and I would still not use it.