Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week
Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate.
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22.1.2009 IE8 Beta 2 Next Month, Final IE8 by the End of 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008.
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29.7.2008 Internet Explorer 7 RC1 download
Today, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Windows XP, available via free download.
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24.8.2006 Windows Vista RC1 DOWNLOAD
Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600) was just posted on Microsoft Connect. (~2:45 EST).
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2.9.2006 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 Direct Download Link Without WGA
After the almost disastrous launch of IE 8 Beta 1, the second beta of IE8 (Internet Explorer has been released for free download. Various improvements, enhancements, bug fixes and some new features are added to the new version of IE8 Beta 2.
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26.10.2008 FREE DOWNLOAD of Windows Vista RC1 now
Windows Vista RC1 introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.
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6.9.2006 Windows XP SP3 RC1 Public Download Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system.
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11.12.2007 Windows Essential Business Server 2008 RC1 download
Public Preview Software – Release Candidate 1 Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 is an integrated and affordable solution that offers the Microsoft software midsize businesses require - preconfigured, integrated and manageable from a single administrative console, and at a significant discount compared to standalone products.
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21.7.2008 Download Windows Vista build 5552 internal pre-RC1
Get it here first - Vista RC1 build 5552!
Right on the heals of the Beta tester's build 5536 is a leaked internal build from Microsoft of what is supposedly going to be the public RC1. Be a member to download it. Joining is free.
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27.8.2006 Microsoft IE8 trial coming soon
Internet Explorer 8 will be released as a beta test version later this year, according to a Microsoft source. Windows XP is apparently included in the plans for the new web browser.
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26.6.2007 Microsoft releases IE8 language packs
In case your favorite language isn't English and have been waiting to install a language pack for the recently released Internet Explorer 8.
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26.4.2009 Pwn2Own: IE8 hacked & Microsoft responds in less than 12hrs
The 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest kicked off its second day today at CanSecWest this morning. If you missed it, check out yesterday's browser carnage (with pics).
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22.3.2009 Microsoft release 2 updates for IE8 on Windows 7 RC
Microsoft has released two new updates for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 RC, via Windows Update.
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6.5.2009 Microsoft Australia: Find $10,000 on the Internet using IE8
Here's an interesting way to promote your browser: The Australian division of Microsoft is running a competition in which you can 'find' $10,000 hidden somewhere on the Internet.
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17.6.2009 Microsoft shows off RC1 of IE 8
Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with its newest browser IE 8. In a world once dominated by IE, Microsoft is now finding stiff competition.
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17.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista RC1 Coming Soon
Brushing off feedback from testers and pundits to push back the first release candidate of Windows Vista and issue a third beta instead, Microsoft confirmed Thursday that RC1 was on the way.
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16.8.2006 Syncing your Microsoft mobile with Windows Vista RC1 via WMDC
WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Centre), is the new software in Vista that replaces ActiveSync and you cannot even install ActiveSync on Vista.
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25.9.2006 Microsoft releases Vista Pre-RC1 (build 5536) to the public
Microsoft has quietly released build 5536 for the first 100,000 people to download it from their Windows Vista site.
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29.8.2006 Group Policy Settings Reference for Microsoft Windows Vista RC1
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600).
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13.9.2006 IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback.
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24.11.2008 IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing
This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough that some context and even history (before we go into any particular feature) is important, and so some readers may find this post a bit basic as it’s written for a wide audience.
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26.6.2008 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Lukewarm reaction to first IE8 beta
Yesterday at the MIX '08 session, Microsoft employees Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch and a host of Microsoft partners touted the new Silverlight and IE8 betas to what could be seen (from my perspective) ..
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6.3.2008 Wanted: IE8 Beta Testers
As previously mentioned in the IE8 Beta Feedback post back in March, we have several ways to submit feedback on the IE8 Beta.
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31.7.2008 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007 The First Look at the IE8 Beta 1 Graphical User Interface
Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1.
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3.3.2008 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 in August
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is
approximately a couple of months away.
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3.6.2008 IE8 Performance vs. Google Chrome and Firefox
With Microsoft making headway towards the gold build of Internet Explorer 8, the Redmond company has to face an ugly truth. Performance-wise, with emphasis on JavaScrip performance, the software giant is getting ready to release a browser inferior to what is already available from rivals Google and Mozilla.
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27.9.2008 IE8 RTW Compatibility View Design
The Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 shipped with a big Emulate IE7 button next to the Home button on the Command Bar.
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22.6.2009 New Beta for Windows 7 and IE8 Security Baselines
Microsoft has debuted a new Beta program via Connect focused on the Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines.
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16.7.2009Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week
Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate. In a blog posting by
Microsoft's Frank Olivier, the UX and Compatibility program manager confirms "we're about to release" IE8 RC1. Insiders indicate it might be
worth penning Monday 26th January in your calendar as the date for IE8 RC1. IE8 RC1 will not install on the current Windows 7 beta build (7000) and
it's rumored that Microsoft could be readying some new beta bits for connect testers in the coming weeks. The RC1 build will initially be offered
to Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.
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22.01.2009Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
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27.01.2009IE8 RTM expected in March
TechARP has predicted that Microsoft will reach IE8's RTM milestone in March during the last 2 weeks. TechARP expects so because Microsoft plans
to announce the final details of the IE8 RTM schedule and available language versions by March 5, 2009. The malaysian website also expects Microsoft
to determine a time frame for the public release of IE8 via Windows Update by March 8. There was a time gap of 8 weeks between IE7's RC1 and its
public release. A similar 8-weeks time limit applied to IE8's RC1 in January suggests the final build's availability around March 23 according
to TechARP.
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18.02.2009IE8 via Automatic Update for users running IE6 or IE7
Microsoft plans to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous versions of IE (IE 6 or IE 7) via Automatic Updates starting from the
3rd week of April. The update will be rolled out gradually from a small user base to large number of users. The update will be a 'high
priority' update for systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and is an 'important' update for Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008. The final version of IE8 was distributed via automatic update recently to users still running pre-release versions of IE8, Beta 2/RC1.
Organizations can use the IE8 Blocker Toolkit to block automatic delivery of IE8.
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11.04.2009Microsoft Releases IE8 RC1
Earlier today, Microsoft released their near feature-complete "RC1" version of Internet Explorer 8.
Available in 25 different languages
for Windows Vista, XP, and Windows Server 2003/2008, it's
available for download right
now.
According to Microsoft's IE8 team, the browser is "effectively complete and done." Most of the kinks visible in previous betas
have been ironed out; their intent with this beta is to gather feedback about critical issues that seriously impede functionality.
Security issues such as the recent
"Clickjacking" one have been
solved. Sites can protect themselves "out of the box".
They've targeted both technology enthusiasts and the hundreds of millions of
"real users" who use Internet Explorer. From the feedback, they really feel that IE8 is ready to go. That however, is for the users to decide, and
that includes you.
To begin testing of this RC release, a few prerequisites are required:
Firstly, if you are one of the
many people testing any of the Windows 7 Betas, the version available for download will NOT work. It will be available as an update at a later date.
If you don't fall under this category, then the following prerequisites may be applicable to your install of Windows:
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27.01.2009Support for IE8 pre-released versions extended
The IE8 beta 2 support page has been updated again and the support for IE8 pre-released versions has now been bumped to until March 31st, 2009. This
could indicate that the final product may be released during April. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer had officially announced
earlier that there will be one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009, followed up by the final release. Currently, the IE8 Beta
testers can download the latest partner build and the rest can download the Beta 2 which is available to public. The current IE build version the
beta testers can download is 8.0.6001.18344 and the one available in the leaked Windows 7 Beta 1 is 8.0.7000.0.
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31.12.2008Internet Explorer 8 RTM in March?
After having released Beta 1 in August or 2008, Beta 2 in March of the same year, and RC1 just last month, are they ready to ship the RTM version?
TechARP thinks so. They claim that "Microsoft is ready
to release Internet Explorer 8 to manufacturing (RTM) in the next few weeks." Microsoft previously mentioned that the RC1 build would be the last
testing build before RTM. That day has come and gone, so it only seems sensible that the RTM will follow shortly after.
With quotes such
as
"IE8 is clearly nearly ready for release. RC1 is stable and fast, and it contains a full feature set," and
"Microsoft has come a
long way with IE8 by pushing performance barriers, embracing Web standards, and adding a few new features," being
posted on the Windows Team Blog, it seems that people are finally impressed.
How about you? Among the list of
improvements over IE7 are:
- Extensive improvements in the areas of performance and reliability.
- Monetization opportunities (for
OEMs).
- Visual Search Suggestions, which offers the ability to configure a search provider and additional services into the IE8 search box to
search for shopping, news/portal sites, social networks, sports, etc.
- Web Slices and Accelerators, which are additional web services within
the IE8 monetization ecosystem, built specifically for IE8 by content providers. These services will be used by OEMs to deliver brand exposure and
content updates to the users.
- Enhanced user experience, greater user privacy, and security enhancements...
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18.02.2009Microsoft accelerates in 2009 with RC1 of IE8
In the clearest sign to date that the company's roadmap really is being fast-forwarded, Release Candidate 1 of Internet Explorer 8 -- a critical
component of Windows 7 -- was released this morning...
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27.01.2009Windows Vista RC1 via CPP
Soon?
It seems that Microsoft are
preparing to launch Release
Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows
Vista via the Customer Preview
Program (CPP) shortly. A page
has been discovered, which
although returns an error, is
labelled with "Thank you
for your interest in Windows
Vista RC 1.". This surely
suggest that Windows Vista RC1
will be released very shortly.
Update: 64-bit
Download Link added.
Update 2: An E-mail has
recently been sent to
participants of the Office
2007 Beta, in which it is
revealed that apparently,
Windows Vista RC1 will not
reach public availability
until September...
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26.08.2006Windows Vista RC1 Download
Page Discovered
Only hours after Microsoft
released Windows Vista build
5536 to the public, their RC1
download page has been
discovered. The RC1 build,
which was, according to Paul
Thurrott, finalized yesterday,
is most likely
not there
yet, and since the download
ISO is approximately 3.12 GB,
it appears to be the Beta 2
version.
The page
is about the same as the
pre-RC1 download page but
removes the references to the
100000 copies limit, and, of
course, replaces the pre-RC1
terms for RC1.
Microsoft is expected to
make Windows Vista's first
Release Candidate available
broadly in early september,
and is already preparing it,
just after releasing its
preview build.
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29.08.2006PINNED: Windows Vista RC1 Now
Publicly Available
This is the moment you've
all been
waiting for.. (OK, all the non
testers!)
Windows
Vista RC1, the exact same
build testers received on
Friday has now been released
publicly.
This
particular build (being 5600)
has received high praise about
its much improved stability
and performance.
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07.09.2006IE8 Script Debugger - Under the Hood
Sheetal Kamat: IE8 Beta1 (download available
here) now
includes a Script debugger that is part of IE8 Developer Tools. This Script debugger was built by the JScript team and I hope you have been using it
to fix all script errors when building your web applications.
In this post I will be discuss the design of the script
debugger.
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18.03.2008Vista build 5536 for RC1?
Paul Thurrott:....inside the
software colossus, work
continues toward an early
September RC1 release for
Vista.
However, the
build previously planned for
RC1--build 5520--had two major
problems, so Microsoft had to
move on to a newer
version--build 5536--for RC1.
The company plans to ship
build 5536 internally today,
according to my sources...
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03.09.2006Downloading IE8 will help feed hungry Americans
Microsoft has announced that for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8, they will donate the financial equivalent of eight meals to the
Feeding America network. The campaign is called "Browser for the Better," and runs from June 10 and August 8. Only IE8 downloads from the specific
"Browser for the Better" website will count. Microsoft will be donating $1.15 (their reported financial equivalent of eight meals) per download,
to a maximum of $1,000,000. Feeding America is the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the U.S and provides services for more than 25
million low-income individuals. They distribute 2 billion pounds of donated food per year.
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14.06.2009On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards
Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or the ones they use ? It's been a tough call, and late
yesterday, the company reversed that call. Unlike IE7, IE8 will by default use "Standards mode."..
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04.03.2008OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released
With development of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 now on the last stretch, a RC1 (Release Candidate) of the upcoming office suite has been released.
Weighting in 127.6 MB, the RC1 comes with quite a few updates over its predecessors, updates that are detailed
on this page. To download OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 check out
this page.
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08.09.2008Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 RC1
This software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008 RC1. In Windows Server 2008 RC1, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the
latest version of Windows Media Services) and remote administration tools are not included in Server Manager. To obtain the new features and tools
available in Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008 RC1, such as the built-in WMS Cache/Proxy plug-in, you must obtain and run the appropriate
Streaming Media Services role installer file on the updated platform.
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06.12.2007New IE8 build available for program participants
Internet Explorer 8 beta participants today received a surprising e-mail about 'IE8 Partner Build' released to the IE8 Technical Beta to test
and find issues. This build represents a preview of IE8's progress and is best used to verify issues fixed since releasing Beta 2. While Microsoft
believes it to be of adequate quality for you to use, is not as extensively tested as a milestone build, so it is not meant for the general public but
only for testing purposes. Microsoft is not providing any support for this build and henceforth just like in transition from Beta 1 to Beta 2, if you
feel that Microsoft have resolved misfiled your bug, please re-activate the bug.
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11.12.2008IE8 delayed? Microsoft extends support cutoff for IE8 betas
In August IE8 Beta 2 was released
in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and
in September Microsoft released support
for 21 more languages. Microsoft officially set the deadline for the final version for
later this year, and left
it at that. We noted
in September that,
according to the IE8 Beta 2 support page, prerelease versions of IE8 would no longer be supported come November 1, 2008, suggesting that the final
version would arrive this month...
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17.11.2008Microsoft Offers Pre-RC1 Vista
Beta
Despite initially saying it
wouldn't be made public,
Microsoft late Monday released
Windows Vista Build 5536 for
download by those who had
signed up for the Beta 2
Customer Preview Program. The
catch: only 100,000 visitors
will be able to download
before the links are
deactivated...
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