Seattlest: Stealthy IE8 Reaches Beta 1 Make that 2

Donte

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:37:23 -0800

For all the hate, IE8 does suck less than prior versions in a lot of ways. It's not perfect, but at least the Javascript interpreter is close to being on par with FF (still WAY slower than Safari though). Whether you use them or not, realize IE is still king of the castle, so them making improvements is going to have more impact with the non-savvy crowd than a million improvements to FF.

Tom

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:09:46 -0800

All the accolades MicroSoft has been getting for this feature are well deserved! I'm grateful that MicroSoft has finally invented the private browsing mode that Safari has been employing for a while now... just like MicroSoft invented the tabbed browsing that Firefox was using long before. I can't wait until MicroSoft invents virtual desktops... that would be awesome!

bilco

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:48:55 -0800

Well, that formatting didn't work very well, did it. Here's the raw link http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9113739&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top

bilco

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:48:15 -0800

Also, note that MSFT has issued an alert that 'some' users with XP SP3 will not be able to uninstall this beta. Potential">http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9113739&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top'>Potential uninstall issues

aaronbrethorst

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:38:30 -0800

This is Beta 2. Beta 1 was developer-focused and came out several months ago.