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Archived News:
- Microsoft Details IE 8 Security Default Change (eweek.com)
- Firefox Makes Big Gains In Business at IE's Expense (dailytech.com)
- Standards-based IE8 shows 'new Microsoft' (vnunet.com)
- IE8 Could Break Applications, Gartner Warns (informationweek.com)
- IE8 change shows Microsoft trying to 'play nice,' says analyst (computerworld.com)
- Will IE 8 break the Web? (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE8 Beta 1: the screenshot tour (apcmag.com)
- Broader release of IE 8 coming this summer (news.com)
- Five things you'll love (or hate) about IE8 (blogs.computerworld.com)
- Hands-on With Microsoft's IE8 Beta (washingtonpost.com)
- Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta (pcmag.com)
- IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode (arstechnica.com)
- The Internet Explorer 8 beta toolbar (istartedsomething.com)
- Microsoft promises IE8 beta in June (vnunet.com)
- Confirmation: Internet Explorer 8 beta testing has begun (betanews.com)
- Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Available on Connect (techtoday.110mb.com)
- Microsoft on IE8: we won't break the Web (itnews.com.au)
- Microsoft Prepares to Unveil IE8 Features At MIX08 (dailytech.com)
- Dean Hachamovitch to show IE8 at MIX Keynote (visitmix.com)
- Microsoft Stresses Backward Compatibility for IE8 (pcworld.com)
- Compatibility and IE8 (blogs.msdn.com)
- EC to investigate Internet Explorer (broadband-finder.co.uk)
- Internet Explorer 8 Passes the 'Acid2' Test (internetnews.com)
- IE 8 Beta 1 in First Half of 2008 (pcworld.com)
- Microsoft still short on details surrounding IE8 (betanews.com)
- Gates: Next IE to be IE8 (news.com)
- Is Microsoft Getting Ready to Let the IE8 Genie Out of the Bottle? (news.softpedia.com)
- Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Web developers impatient for Internet Explorer news (seattlepi.nwsource.com)
- Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009? (news.softpedia.com)
- Microsoft's Chris Wilson confirms all-new layout engine in IE.Next (sitepoint.com)
- Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafening (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE8 trial coming soon (pcplus.co.uk)
- CompTIA: IE voted 'most influential' tech product (news.com.com)
- Windows Vienna & IE 8 features Leaked (msinsider.blogspot.com)
- Next version of Windows: Call it 7 (news.com.com)
- Firefox now a serious threat to IE in Europe (osdir.com)
- Fake IE8 Alpha screenshots appear on the Web (it-newz.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 9 to ship with Windows 7? (techtheblog.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta to begin later this year (thehotfix.net)
- Preparing your site for IE.next (webdevout.net)
- Firefox more likely to be fully patched than IE (computerworld.com.au)
- IE7 Interest: Flat (pcworld.com)
- Are IE8 and Web Standards Compatibility Compatible? (itbusinessedge.com)
- Microsoft hints at general plan for IE 8 (news.com.com)
- Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8 (arstechnica.com)
- 'IE8 compatible' - the cure for web standards headache? (theregister.co.uk)
- What's next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up (a little) (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Microsoft's latest spin on Web apps (news.com.com)
- IE8 details to be unveiled next week (tech.co.uk)
- What to Expect from IE at MIX07 (blogs.msdn.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 and the semantic web (technextblog.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 Is Taking Shape (ouredutainment.blogspot.com)
- Worm poses as Internet Explorer 7 beta download (itwire.com.au)
- Microsoft, Canvas, and the WHATWG (ajaxian.com)
- Microsoft releases "Deepfish" browser for Windows Mobile (engadget.com)
- Firefox more popular than IE in some European countries (xitimonitor.com)
- The first new feature of Internet Explorer 8? (apcmag.com)
- Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, IE7, Office (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE7, Vista and Office 2007 banned by U.S. DOT (informationweek.com)
- IE loses ground in US; holds its ground worldwide (arstechnica.com)
- Internet Explorer market share now below 80% (computerweekly.com)
- Talking with Microsoft about IE.next (webstandards.org)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 Available for Download on P2P? (news.softpedia.com)
- Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE8: What Do You Want To See? (windowsconnected.com)
- Microsoft Is Already Running Internet Explorer 8.0 (news.softpedia.com)
- Is Internet Explorer 8 in the works? (arstechnica.com)
- Next versions of IE and Firefox taking shape (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 somewhere in MIX07? (lorgor.net)
- Internet Explorer To Flag Verified 'Safe' Sites (entmag.com)
- 10 must haves in IE Next (456bereastreet.com)
- The History of Internet Explorer (microsoft.com)
- Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8 (itwire.com.au)
- Vista Boosts IE 7 Security Features (browsersecuritynews.com)
- Ideas for IE8 (channel9.msdn.com)
- IE.next to support CSS3 colours? (css3.info)
- Microsoft slowly begins IE 7 auto-upgrade (infoworld.com)
- What comes after IE 7? (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups (news.com.com)
- You can improve IE.next (webstandards.org)
- Microsoft is already working on Internet Explorer 8 (dmxzone.com)
- "IE8.0 Alpha" screenshots (activewin.com)
- IE 8.0 will support microformats (factoryjoe.com)
- Up next: IE 8.0 (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE 7 Is AJAX-Ready, MS working on IE Next (eweek.com)
- IE8 out on 8/8/8? (navegadores.org)
- MS sharing some hints about IE 8.0, aka IE Next (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Things IE7 didn't fixed (forevergeek.com)
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Polls:
- Did you already switch to IE7?
- What must be top priority for IE8?
- 8.0 will be last version of IE?
- When will Microsoft release IE8?
Wishlist:
- More speed
- Security
- Better ease of use
- Lower resources
- Compatibility
Comments:
By kennethfcca on 2008-05-20 15:21:15, 0 Points
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By kennethfcca on 2008-05-20 15:15:01, 0 Points
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By kennethfcca on 2008-05-20 15:13:12, 0 Points
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By kennethfcca on 2008-05-20 15:12:08, 1 Point
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By Manav on 2008-04-30 05:49:19, 0 Points
I think IE explorer 8 is better than Mozilla Firefox .It is much better than IE explorer 7.Mozilla Firefox 3 is also good .You can download Mozilla Firefox 8 beta 5 from the Mozilla site and IE explorer 8 beta 1 from the Microsoft site.
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By simplyosh on 2008-04-27 20:49:14, 0 Points
I can't explain How much hatred they have created in my mind for themselves. I have spend hell lot if my life working on Microsoft technologies. And I can assure u that a single determined and rich guy can make them beggars in a very little time. People who are working in Microsoft should better commit suicide. I mean what the hell is this. Are they not having any QA team? Didn;t they test their IE8 before releasing beta, Mozilla is far better, they said that these are my features and we can take to your old configuration whenever u got any problem. And that is really doable. Browsers are made to access the web site. I can write an application in half an hour that will let u do the basic things. And the magnanimous launch of IE 8 of MS don't even let me browse a simple site sometime, it hangs for goggle.com 
. Come on guys u r stupids or what.. if you don't know how to write software come to me I can teach u some tricks. U guys made me so disappointed. I used to believe that people who work in Microsoft are intelligent but sorry guys I am sure u are nothing more then just some stupids who have better capture of the market. U suggest me how can I browse a site that ur IE 8 is not opening. I mean u should at least given us an option to revert back easily. I had gr8 respect but release of ur IE 8 beta made u crazy. U should better hire some better managers and developer and managers who are part of of beta release should be hang to the death. It's not a joke, u guys have some responsibilities, people made ur life better for this reason only. we pay for u .. we work for u.. not coz u r duffers. Or some stupid politician who got product manager's job by playing tricks. I am also a developer in a product company and I know how much they screw us even before releasing that to QA, beta is far far away. The only stupid thing is that we develop software for your OS as well. I feel pity on myself.
. Come on guys u r stupids or what.. if you don't know how to write software come to me I can teach u some tricks. U guys made me so disappointed. I used to believe that people who work in Microsoft are intelligent but sorry guys I am sure u are nothing more then just some stupids who have better capture of the market. U suggest me how can I browse a site that ur IE 8 is not opening. I mean u should at least given us an option to revert back easily. I had gr8 respect but release of ur IE 8 beta made u crazy. U should better hire some better managers and developer and managers who are part of of beta release should be hang to the death. It's not a joke, u guys have some responsibilities, people made ur life better for this reason only. we pay for u .. we work for u.. not coz u r duffers. Or some stupid politician who got product manager's job by playing tricks. I am also a developer in a product company and I know how much they screw us even before releasing that to QA, beta is far far away. The only stupid thing is that we develop software for your OS as well. I feel pity on myself.Reply | I like it | I dislike it
By Lin Cu on 2008-04-24 06:07:45, 0 Points
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By Lin Cu on 2008-04-24 05:43:08, 0 Points
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By خادمة العترة on 2008-03-31 06:25:00, 0 Points
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By duttavr on 2008-03-17 17:59:01, 3 Points
msdotnetsupport.blogspot.com - Top 10 Internet Explorer 8 features
- Top 10 Internet Explorer 8 featuresReply | I like it | I dislike it
By drummerboy46 on 2008-03-16 21:17:20, 1 Point
I've recently installed IE8 beta 1 on my dev PC which is running Vista SP1 which i'm glad to say along with VS 2008 is now starting to feel like a stable and useable platform. In fact I've been running Vista alongside OSX Leopard for some weeks and there are many aspects of Vista I prefer to OSX (but that's another story hehehe).
I've spent some time testing IE 8 in the default standards mode with a lot of big name sites and thankfully the IE7 switch works well on the client side as much as a developers override. If the new standards mode is anything to go by it will be used A LOT!
What worries me is the "so called" CSS2.1 and DOM/JS compliant code claims by Microsoft, along with a pass on the ACID2 test seem to me to be a world apart from my real world tests i've done since I installed this browser. A good example is google maps - dies BIGTIME! and with the web it's hard to say who's at fault here because internet standards are based on interpretation of the "rules".
Because browsers like, WebKit and Mozilla and to some extent IE7 are tried, tested and well supported, I find it staggering to believe that the new IE8 standards mode could be so wide of the mark in comparison to these browsers. It seems to me as if Microsoft have binned the IE7 codebase and started again?!?
I'm very concerened that the differences in the rendering of content compared to any other browser in the marketplace will lead to yet another panic situation on the part of the web designer/developer where specific "fixes" for IE have to be taken into consideration even though they "claim" they are compliant!
I've been testing under the latest betas of Firefox and WebKit for some time and the code I write requires little or no tweaks between these two vendors and even IE7 often requires only the simplest of changes to get similar results. So what's going on here?
I'm hoping for all our sakes it's just down to the fact the codebase still has a long way to go!
I've spent some time testing IE 8 in the default standards mode with a lot of big name sites and thankfully the IE7 switch works well on the client side as much as a developers override. If the new standards mode is anything to go by it will be used A LOT!
What worries me is the "so called" CSS2.1 and DOM/JS compliant code claims by Microsoft, along with a pass on the ACID2 test seem to me to be a world apart from my real world tests i've done since I installed this browser. A good example is google maps - dies BIGTIME! and with the web it's hard to say who's at fault here because internet standards are based on interpretation of the "rules".
Because browsers like, WebKit and Mozilla and to some extent IE7 are tried, tested and well supported, I find it staggering to believe that the new IE8 standards mode could be so wide of the mark in comparison to these browsers. It seems to me as if Microsoft have binned the IE7 codebase and started again?!?
I'm very concerened that the differences in the rendering of content compared to any other browser in the marketplace will lead to yet another panic situation on the part of the web designer/developer where specific "fixes" for IE have to be taken into consideration even though they "claim" they are compliant!
I've been testing under the latest betas of Firefox and WebKit for some time and the code I write requires little or no tweaks between these two vendors and even IE7 often requires only the simplest of changes to get similar results. So what's going on here?
I'm hoping for all our sakes it's just down to the fact the codebase still has a long way to go!
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By slither on 2008-03-14 07:37:56, 1 Point
Although I am not much of an Internet Explorer user, I must say that from what I've seen IE8 is a great improvement. I will probably still be using firefox, but ie8 sounds promising.
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By slnk02003 on 2008-03-11 16:52:21, 0 Points
IE8 - Slooooooowwwwwwwwww
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By naveen on 2008-03-09 02:10:31, 1 Point
I installed IE 8 beta last week. I very much liked the new activites feature. When tried to access maps.google.com the browser displays a distorted image and content. Who needs to fix this Google or Microsoft ?
the browser displays a distorted image and content. Who needs to fix this Google or Microsoft ?Reply | I like it | I dislike it
By CSSteve on 2008-03-07 14:14:44, 2 Points
Standards Compliant by default 2 thumbs way up!
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By iHateIE on 2008-03-06 04:59:44, 0 Points
IE nevermore!!!
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By naderh on 2008-03-04 13:24:15, 1 Point
I've used IE8 Beta. It's much faster and the interface is a lot better.
I think I'll stick to Firefox though...
I think I'll stick to Firefox though...
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By getfirefox on 2008-03-02 16:22:15, 1 Point
I am currently using firefox, I switched after I got IE 7 because it was so slow and buggy. IE8 will have to improve a lot to convince me to switch back.
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By jmike on 2008-03-01 10:28:24, 1 Point
It Sucks!!
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By John Perkins on 2008-02-28 01:45:33, 1 Point
What Version of MSXML is in IE8 by default?
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By newcomer on 2008-02-25 18:07:27, 1 Point
Hi!
Have anyone spotted screenshots of the IE8 Beta? The only ones I've seen are fakes.
Have anyone spotted screenshots of the IE8 Beta? The only ones I've seen are fakes.
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By mokies on 2007-05-18 04:28:23, 4 Points
I'm a Firefox fan but still wants to experience other softwares (an internet browser), I think that IE7 was a bit slow and difficult to use for beginners here. I think the best way is to make an automatic security or other frequent notice automatically answered by the installation basis, ask there what should be the answer when incidents pops out. And the speed so well for minimum users. Its not everytime users are in a high definition status.
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By xtrauser on 2007-02-23 10:27:19, 2 Points
I'm sure all the IE8 files in BT/Emule are fake and, most likely, carry a virus.
We won't be seeing an "official" alpha version for quite some time.
We won't be seeing an "official" alpha version for quite some time.
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By newbie on 2006-12-22 11:09:42, 1 Point
I had some problems with security in IE6 but IE7 seems foolproof (until now...)
Nowadays I switch back between Opera and IE7 because some sites don't render correctly in Opera.
For IE8 my biggest wish is that catch on the feature list of other browsers, specially in terms of privacy and bookmarking.
Nowadays I switch back between Opera and IE7 because some sites don't render correctly in Opera.
For IE8 my biggest wish is that catch on the feature list of other browsers, specially in terms of privacy and bookmarking.
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By Juich on 2006-11-23 21:54:14, 2 Points
IE7 is a major improvement over IE6 in terms of Web standards compatibility but MS should have gone further. Let's hope IE8 will reach the standards-compliance level of good old Firefox 1.0.
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By Donutey on 2006-11-17 01:47:29, -4 Points
The "IE8.0 Alpha screenshots" are of IE 2.0 (or maybe 1.0 not sure)... shame on you for putting them up (or believing them for that matter)...
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
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By enforcer on 2006-11-18 20:27:24, 2 Points
Hmmm... maybe that's why it has " in the text? 
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By GoddersUK on 2007-04-13 12:47:05, 0 Points
The date on the host site is april the first. :p
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By paulo on 2006-11-02 21:59:46, 2 Points
I installed IE7 and was well impressed. Microsoft put a big effort on this one. But I saw no reason to switch from FF 1.5, not to mention the newer version.
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By webby on 2006-11-01 19:42:10, 0 Points
I installed IE7 this week and was a bit disappointed.
I'm not a Firefox fanboy but still think FF2 is better than IE7.
Let's hope IE8 puts MS again in the lead.
I'm not a Firefox fanboy but still think FF2 is better than IE7.
Let's hope IE8 puts MS again in the lead.
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By ie8.net on 2006-10-28 19:01:36, 7 Points
Welcome to Internet Explorer 8.Net
Feel free to talk to talk about Microsoft's next browser.
Feel free to talk to talk about Microsoft's next browser.
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