Posted by: stigr | 20 March 2009

IE8 RTW

Finally we released Internet Explorer 8, the latest, safest and fastest web browser for Windows from Microsoft.

A lot of new changes include

  • Available in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 within x86 and x64 editions.
  • Performance has been a major area of investment in Internet Explorer 8, and the JavaScript engine itself is 70% faster than the one shipped in IE7.
  • Tab crash isolation – when one tab of the browser fails, it doesn’t bring down the entire browser.
  • New features includes Full CSS 2.1 Support, accelerators, web slices and provider model for Visual Search.
  • There are over 1,200 accelerators, web slices and visual search providers out there already today, including Digg, ESPN, OneRiot, Amazon, Sina, TaoBao, and Yahoo. Get some at http://ieaddons.com
  • IE blocks over a million phishing and malware attacks a month. (Check more at: http://www.nsslabs.com/anti-malware/browser-security

Also since it is running in backwards compatibility mode for Intranet sites (fully configurable of course) there is really no reason not to upgrade!!

Get going at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8


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