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  1. IE 8 Final Bits Ready for Download on March 19

    Microsoft is proclaiming Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) finished and will be releasing the final bits for download on March 19.


    Microsoft plans to make the bits available as of 9 a.m. PT on Thursday. Interested parties will be able to grab them from the Internet Explorer 8 Web site, officials said.


    Microsoft officials will launch officially IE 8 during the Mix ‘09 morning keynote on March 19.


    There are very few changes between the Release Candidate (RC) IE 8 code that Microsoft delivered in January and the final bits, officials said.
    Starting with the RC, Microsoft began offering users a downloadable Compatibility List of sites which automatically default to the older, non-standards-compliant version of Internet Explorer 7 in order to lessen compatibility problems with IE 8. Since January, Microsoft has tweaked that list a bit, removing sites which have since updated so as to work properly with the more standards-centric IE 8, and adding new ones that aren’t standards-mode compliant. Otherwise, the tweaks to the product have been few.


    Microsoft is planning to push IE 8 to users via its automatic updating mechanisms, but has yet to set a date as to when it will do so. In the interim, downloading the IE 8 code from Microsoft’s Web site will be the way interested users can obtain the latest release of the Microsoft browser.


    Microsoft also plans to bundle IE 8 with Windows 7 when that operating system is launched, most likely later this year. Recently, officials said they plan to offer users the option of “removing” IE 8 from Windows 7 in order to try to head off antitrust punishments likely to be doled out by the European Commission overseeing the Opera browser-bundling complaint against Microsoft.


  2. I've heard reports that IE8 doesn't render some Web sites properly (shocking!) and that it switches back to a "legacy mode" for such sites.
    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Holliday View Post
    K3V is awesome!

  3. lol Internet Explorer.

  4. I sure hope the final version of IE8 works longer than 10 minutes. The beta would crash after what seemed like viewing a few sites.

    Honestly, what was wrong with IE7 that they needed to move onto 8 so fast.
    Finished Games of '09
    nothing at this time

  5. Quote Originally Posted by Mr_B View Post
    Honestly, what was wrong with IE7
    It had no reason to exist.

  6. #7
    Fuck Microsoft.

  7. Quote Originally Posted by K3V View Post
    I've heard reports that IE8 doesn't render some Web sites properly (shocking!) and that it switches back to a "legacy mode" for such sites.
    It essentially reloads the page and displays an icon letting you know it's running in a legacy mode. Pretty seamless. SEGA-16 is one such site.

    BTW Chrome 2.0 is out as well.

  8. lol MS.
    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Holliday View Post
    K3V is awesome!

  9. Quote Originally Posted by Dyne View Post
    It essentially reloads the page and displays an icon letting you know it's running in a legacy mode.
    Thank god for this too. It will eliminate the need for web developers to do full cross browser compatibility for 8 until it has decent usage statistics. Overall it seems like a huge step up from 7, which isn't that bad of a browser in comparison to 6.
    Quote Originally Posted by BerringerX
    I am pretty sure one of the reasons Jesus died is so we could enjoy delicious chicken and waffle fries seven days a week.
    Eat a bag of dicks.

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