Internet Explorer 8 Released

Internet Explorer 8 was released to the public today by Microsoft at Mix 09, a conference in Las Vegas.  They are asking some of the users that abandoned it to come back to them.  They also showed a video about the “history of the internet”. They want consumers to see Microsoft in a new light.  Find a copy of the video at http://go.cosmicthings.com/nethistory/.

The final version is being pushed as “great for developers”. “We are releasing it here at Mix because we are excited about what you, the developers, can build with it,” IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch said. Hachamovitch then launched into a demo of the new browser, touting its anti-malware features, such as protection from click-jacking attacks.

Speaking to a crowd of Web developers, Hachamovitch also spent a good deal of time talking about the moves Microsoft made to make IE 8 far more standards-compliant than earlier versions.

The company has released a video that it says shows that its browser is faster at loading a number of “important” sites. Second, the company has tried to dismiss the difference in speed to the average user.

“In most cases the difference could literally be measured by a blink of an eye,”   “That kind of speed becomes almost a push.”

You can download IE 8 for XP at http://go.cosmicthings.com/ie8xp/ and you can download it for Vista at http://go.cosmicthings.com/ie8vista/.

Do not install these versions on Windows 7. Windows 7 already comes with IE 8 and Microsoft asks that you use that version.