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[Mandrake]

You can find IE8 beta 1 available for download here. It runs on all versions of Windows from XP and up, with both 32bit and 64bit versions.

I've just installed this myself, but so far I do like it. As part of an expanded setup wizard that appears the first time you run the browser, you can import your Firefox bookmarks and other data, which is quite handy (I'm not sure which other browsers this works for). It'll even detect your Firefox extensions and tell you if there are any similar addons for IE! Microsoft also claims to have made great strides in standards compliance which is also good news.

I'll post more here once I've had a chance to play with this some more.



UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

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[Antony]

After years of ‘embracing and extending’ existing standards to morph them into proprietary Microsoft standards, something strange is happening: Microsoft will ensure IE8 renders web content to accepted web standards – by default.

Someone’s put something into the water at Microsoft that’s suddenly caused the company to decide that following standards might just well be the right thing to do, not only for Microsoft, but the rest of the community.
(iTWire)

This is a good news for the web, and probably not a good news for Firefox.

More detail at IEBlog

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

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[Antony]

Also, one new feature - WebSlices appears to be a Microsoft implement of Safari's Web Clips without a separate runtime environment like Dashboard: "Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates."

Other features of Internet Explorer 8 include a links bar (similar to Safari's Bookmarks Bar) that has been renamed the "Favorites Bar," an "Automatic Crash Recovery" tool, and an improved anti-phishing filter. (source: AppleInsider)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

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[beanboy89]

Interesting how Internet Explorer 8 is still identified as a fourth generation browser.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8

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[Gregor]

[Dr Lobster*]

it's a shame they haven't dome anything with the interface. there is so much wasted space, it's truly a horrible browser. everything seems to awkward.

same mozilla don't to group policy and msi packages for their products so they can be managed in a corporate environment.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

[jjssparkle]

So far, one irritating bug I'm running across is everytime I open Favorites menu I get an error/send error message and IE has to reopen the tab. I also had to uninstall my Web Crawler toolbar; I don't know if it's a memory overload or what going on here, but that's my personal findings thusfar - next trick is I'm going to try and access Microsoft Updates page.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)