Chris Gaylord is reporting at the Christian Science Monitor that IE9 will look similar to Chrome.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0825/Internet-Explorer-9-What-Microsoft-cribbed-from-Google

screenshot:
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1911/3211212364eb6a621f2.png

Quite some time ago, right about the time just before IE7 was relased I believe, we were told there was never going to be an IE9 by microsoft.