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Internet Explorer | Microsoft Updates | 10 Features? | W3C

Posted • September 17, 2008 • Comments Off

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With the Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft is hoping to stop the flood gates that are going right to Firefox.

Will Internet Exploder 8 be successful?

Internet Explorer 8

It has been downloaded by many and the reviews are mixed. If you’d like to test it out yourself Internet Exploder 8 can be downloaded from Micro$oft. As expected there is no Mac version but XP and on both the 32- and 64-bit editions of Vista, Server 2003, and Server 2008 are all supported. There are different downloads for each OS, so be sure you choose the right one.

In my opinion like most of the new Micro$oft releases they are just trying to copy the ones that are already out there doing well. (i.e. ~~Longhorn~~ ~~Windoz OS X~~ I mean Vista or is it Mojave now?) This is still just a Micro$oft copy of Firefox and Safari. Sometimes a copy is a good thing.

10 things about IE 8 that stand out good and bad

IE 8 loads faster than IE 7
IE 8 much more stable than IE 7
Firefox like crash recovery
InPrivate browsing feature (porn mode)
Tab Grouping (right-click a tab, you have options)
Accelerators (little add-ons to make it quick and easy to apply tasks to highlighted text)
Firefox like suggestive search
New Security (hey it’s a M$ product)
Tool bars become part of suggested sites bar
Like Firefox and Safari has become W3C compliant

Microsoft Updates Internet Explorer to the 21st Century

Well at least for us that work with code if IE 8 takes off it will help by not having to create IE specific CSS and other oddities like IE 6 and 7 have required. Does any one still design for IE 4.5, 5.0 or 5.5?

Will IE 8 stop the migration to Firefox? We will have to revisit this question upon the release of IE 9. Regardless, my hat is off to Micro$oft for updating Internet Explorer into the 21st century.

Late,
Gary Pool

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