Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by shaneco
About a year after the first beta (which was followed by another beta and a release candidate), Microsoft has announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer 8, the company's newest browser. The focus of Internet Explorer 8 is better standards compliance, security, and making "common online tasks faster and easier".
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RE[2]: Not released til Noon
by Thomas2005 on Fri 20th Mar 2009 13:24
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We have everyone in the web browser arena for this release, however i think out of them all Firefox has been the browser to put the most pressure on Microsoft.
I will agree 100% with you on this point. Before Firefox was released Microsoft said they would not release any more stand-alone versions of IE, and future versions would be "tied" to a specific version of Windows (i.e. IE7 + Longhorn, IE8 + Windows 7, etc). Once Firefox came out and started to gain market-share, Microsoft decided to reverse direction and release IE7 as a stand-alone application. Granted, it does not have everything when used with XP as it does with Vista, but Microsoft did release it as a stand-alone application. Now we have IE8, and starting with Windows 7 we can have a version of Windows without IE installed.
RE[3]: Not released til Noon
by lemur2 on Sat 21st Mar 2009 09:02
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Member since:2007-02-17
starting with Windows 7 we can have a version of Windows without IE installed.
Sorry, but no. You will reportedly be able to "turn IE off" (whatever that really means) but it will not be un-installed.
Having said that ... I'd rather have IE8 on any Windows system that either IE6 or IE7, and I will recommend IE8 to Windows users who ask me.
Edited 2009-03-21 09:04 UTC
RE[2]: Not released til Noon
by werpu on Sun 22nd Mar 2009 11:33
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Member since:2006-01-18
over at www.neowin.net they have posted direct links to RTM files
Ive downloaded and am running IE8 on Vista (build ends in 18702).
It's amazingly quick, as quick and sometimes quicker than chrome on the same pc.
We have everyone in the web browser arena for this release, however i think out of them all Firefox has been the browser to put the most pressure on Microsoft. So congrates to compeition as it proves once again that competition drives innovation and improvements for everyone.
Ive downloaded and am running IE8 on Vista (build ends in 18702).
It's amazingly quick, as quick and sometimes quicker than chrome on the same pc.
We have everyone in the web browser arena for this release, however i think out of them all Firefox has been the browser to put the most pressure on Microsoft. So congrates to compeition as it proves once again that competition drives innovation and improvements for everyone.
Actually I am somewhat underwhelmed by this release, while I applaud the efforts obviously undertaken to support CSS properly, I see where the competition is and where Microsoft stands and all I can say is. First of all there is a huge load of people who still have not moved away from IE6 so even the new release so the pain everybody in web development has to endure wont change. But at least there now is a common ground which is CSS 2.1 which everyone can follow for all other browsers which makes the support of ie8 more or less a no brainer. But IE7 still will be an issue for the years to come if those not migrated yet will to migrate to ie7 first (which unfortunately will happen)
But the main reason why I am underwhelmed is the still lacking support for the newest ECMAScript standards, which again leaves us without real namespaces and real inheritance, instead of rolling your own both constructs would have helped a lot to improve framework interoperability. And the fact that Microsoft was able to fork SVG successfully for silverlight but not supporting the real thing in their own browsers in 2009 still is a shame :-(
So what is left, a release while I personally applaud it from a web developers standpoint leaves me cold!
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over at www.neowin.net they have posted direct links to RTM files
Ive downloaded and am running IE8 on Vista (build ends in 18702).
It's amazingly quick, as quick and sometimes quicker than chrome on the same pc.
We have everyone in the web browser arena for this release, however i think out of them all Firefox has been the browser to put the most pressure on Microsoft. So congrates to compeition as it proves once again that competition drives innovation and improvements for everyone.