Our Microsoft expert,Alex Wilhelmis on the ground at Microsoft’s “Future of Productivity Council” in Redmond, Washington. He has just alerted us that Internet Explore 9 RC is set to launch on February 10th. Two puzzle pieces fit nicely together: Today, Microsoft sent out invites to a major media event, where they will unveil Internet Explorer 9. The will be held in San Francisco on February 10th. And earlier this morning, the following screen shots leaked of Microsoft’s IE 9 build number ....

TNW Quick Hit: In case you actually wanted to keep IE8 and avoid IE9, you are going to want to dodge the Important Windows Update coming on March 21st, because it is going to contain the newest Microsoft browser. We have been saying for some time that Internet Explorer 9 was going to quickly become the world’s most popular browser, but we didn’t think that Microsoft was going to do it this aggressively....

The developer teams at Microsoft may have something to smile about this morning after it has emerged that the company’s Internet Explorer browser is one of the only modern web browsers that is not susceptible to an memory leak which occurs when an image attribute is invoked. The issue has been posted to theChromium issue tracker, noting that not only Chrome is affected by the memory leak but also Firefox and Safari (at the time of writing Opera has not been tested)....

According toreports, Microsoft is on the warpath to upgrade the browsing capabilities of its new mobile line. The Redmond giant is planning to roll out a mobile version of its yet forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 to the mobile platform in the future ‘Mango’ update. Currently, Windows Phone 7 runs a variant of Internet Explorer Mobile 7, which is a capable enough browser, but not up the spec that Microsoft desires....

Argentina now counts 12.9m Internet users out of a 40m population, according tocomScore‘s figures for March 2011. A conservative number, considering that it doesn’t include users under 15 and those accessing the Internet solely from their mobile phones or cyber cafés. Here are the most interesting figures presented during yesterday’s webinar on “The State of the Internet in Argentina” by comScore’s Country Manager for Argentina and Uruguay,Sebastian Yoffe. Who are the Argentine users?...