Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWe’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out!
You’ll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. In addition to English, IE8 Beta 2 is available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Additional languages will be available soon.
While Beta 1 was for developers, we think that anyone who browses or works on the web will enjoy IE8 Beta 2. Before the team blogs about our Beta 2 in detail, here’s an overview of what you’ll find in IE8.
We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).
Everyday Browsing
We looked very hard at how people really browse the web. We looked at a lot of data about how people browse and tried a lot of different designs in front of many kinds of people, not just technologists. As tempting as it is to list here all the changes both big and small in IE8, we’ll take a more holistic approach. That’s how we built the product and how we’d like to talk about it.
From our customer research, we saw that the bulk of user activity outside of web pages involved tabs and “navigation” – the act of getting to the site the user wants to get to. We also knew that adding features has an impact only if they’re “in the flow” of how people actually use the product. Another menu item might matter in a checklist on a blog somewhere, but won’t matter to real people browsing. That’s why IE8’s New Tab experience is so remarkable: it’s obvious – after you see it:
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Internet Explorer 8 (English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese)
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microsoft.com
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Comments(7)
bloody hell, how long does it have to take them to release this version of ie, the 1st
beta came out pritty-much when vist awas released, put your ass in gear microsoft!!!
ok tested! this shit is slow as hell .....still! its faster now with java but the rest is
slow....wtf are they thinking? opera and firefox is way faster then ie anyuday of the week
bitches
ok so its better than the first beta, but it still displays pages wrong, wtf is the point
of releasing it when so many simple things are not working right, piece of cràp.
it does not work good on facebook...you can't see all the pictures and it frezzes...also
it does not work on natwest bank website!! this is so rubbish !!! how can they release it
when not all websites work with it!!! crap!!! does any one know how to go back to 7 ?
its in the installed updates part of add remove programmes.
this could be totally unrelated but i use an amd based "personally mixed" homebrew & a
pretty damned fast one i might add also,and i have to admit i agree with sleep2much and
zero this thing is a bit slow and has quite a few hangups literally my system never would
freeze like this prior to installing this beta i am not compplaining as it is a beta but i
mean it has been a while since beta 1 so u might expect a more "ready for prime time"
product but this is definitely not it! just this morning my pc booted fine i tried to open
an article on yahoo about gustav and my rig became totally unresponsive iattempted to
reboot and i had a diskboot error i of course ran the repair utility for vista64 it said
there were no problems detected..then when i finally got it to post again it bsod'd and
finally i was able to get it to rebott after what the repair determined was a no valid
partition issue... hmm unrelated i doubt it since these probelms ensued immediatley after
i installed ie beta 8. just for the sake of science i am gonna give it another run and
monitor my error logs to see if i notice and weird shyte goin on in there so i can rule
out some sort of hw issue that "happened " to emerge right when i installed this thing.
i will however say in ms defense that once they get this thing right some of the features
would be welcomed or at least nice to play around with...sorry such a long post,i will
also offer as word of caution to anyone thinking about installing this besure to have a
back up of ur os handy or a restore point and/or a os to boot from..
i definitely agree with the ie8 beta 2 freezing desktop operations. until you open the
taskmanager and stop processing on the ie8 file, access to icons and desktop operation
remain frozen unless the workstation reboots.
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taking too long
By jacko92 on 28.08.2008 - 13:08