This is definitely a change of pace for Microsoft, but according to Tom Warren at Winrumors Microsoft plans on keeping up with the developer previews of their future work on Internet Explorer even though IE9 is being released on March 14.

In the past the company has gone into stealth mode once a product has been released to the general public, and are pretty mum about any work being done on a future version. Now they are changing policy and plan on releasing regular previews to developers of what will end up being Internet Explorer 10.

Along those lines it is rumored that Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president in charge of Internet Explorer, will be giving us a sneak peak at what we can expect for IE 10 when he gives his keynote speech at this year’s MIX conference; which is Microsoft’s web developers conference.

[Cross-posted at Winextra]