Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 Released

Internet Explorer has been developing to overcome popularity of Firefox, and they’ve released Internet Explorer 8 at last.

Although it still won’t let you configure settings and add plugins like Firefox, they’ve added more features.

The user interface still looks somewhat similar, but remember that it’s only in first beta stage, which means that it will improve.

Here are descriptions by Microsoft:

Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Web Slices

Web Slices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.

Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Automatic Crash Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows Internet Explorer 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.

Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter”

Download Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1

Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 for Window XP SP2
Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1 for Windows Vista

Comments

Comment by Master Chief on March 11, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

eh GO FIREFOX

Comment by sJ_Dan on March 12, 2008 @ 1:14 am

Master Chief, again, it all depends on your taste. But at least they’re still in tight competitions…

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