Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 announced at MIX08

The Internet Explorer team hit an important milestone today and divulged as much at MIX08.  IE's General Manager Dean Hachamovitch today announced the availability of IE8 Beta 1, downloadable for testing by all from here.

You can read more on IE8 at the IEBlog, where Dean explains eight specific advances comprised in IE8.

Soon Brandon will have a post up on the Windows Experience Blog talking about his experience using IE8 Beta 1 and what's new in it, so watch for that.

You can get the latest on MIX08 taking place this week in Las Vegas via MIX08 Online.


Comments

  1. Posted on: April 26, 2008 at 8:44AM  

    IE 8 with my vista home premium would not display java controls on many sites properly. I'd get multiple images of the controls all over the screen. I went to updates and removed IE 8 now it's fine. I even removed the latest java update first but it was an IE 8 issue.

  2. Posted on: May 10, 2008 at 3:09AM  

    It is a beta release and it's IE, and there’s a long way to go...

    Daniel Kim, No browser is better than another. It's all personal preference.

  3. Posted on: May 11, 2008 at 3:08PM  

    Brandon according to an interview with Dean Hachamovitch, he states "But the key is also, we're not saying that there's going to be huge, landmark changes in the UI either, obviously we want to have continuity with new functionality as well. So we don't want to shock out users with a whole bunch of changes." Dean, you are a little out of the loop, the UI on 7 shocked people, there was little the continuity with IE6?  If only minor changes come to 8 it will be as unusable as 7 and it will still shock people. The UI is ugly, it's not user friendly In IE6 you could combined all the tool bars in to one in IE 6  you could move the left arrow to the right side of the address bar if you so desired. We lost that in 7, 8, and in Vista. Dean I really wish I could understand the logic behind Microsoft decision on degrading this aspic of the UI, it’s not an improvement we lost functionality. It's sad it really is.  Dean it's choice, don't chose for me let me have the choice that we us to have. Is it REALLY that difficult to do, is that too much to ask for?????