Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Browsers
Internet Explorer 8 coming today
by Brad Linder Mar 19th 2009 at 9:00AM
Here are a few of the new features that Internet Explorer 8 offers:
- Accelerators that make web-based services available through a right-click context menu. For instance, you can click on a word or phrase and map it or email it.
- Web slices provide information from web sites like Wikipedia or Digg available in little pop up windows that you can check out without navigating away from the page you're on.
- Improved search box features including visual previews and "quick pick" search engine selection.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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wrabbit said 9:38AM on 3-19-2009
Is this going to be a recommended update (i.e. during the scheduled windows updates) or a necessary one? I hope for the latter, 'cause while IE8 is still lightyears behind firefox or safari, it's a big improvement on IE7.
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tjdouglas said 9:51AM on 3-19-2009
If you don't want ie8 download this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en
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Richard said 10:33AM on 3-19-2009
Do we need to uninstall IE7 before installing IE8?
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MadMike said 12:31PM on 3-19-2009
IE8 is probably > IE7 > IE6...etc...
So I don't see why you would block IE8 over IE7. Privoxy will work with both! ;-)
Chrome 2 Beta w/ Privoxy & FireFox 3 with Adblock Plus is all you need.
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Ryan said 4:08PM on 3-19-2009
It doesn't even install for me! I get the message 'This installation does not support your system architecture (32/64 bits)'. I don't know why I bothered trying, since IE is such a waste of space anyway. I'll stick to Firefox thank you very much.
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feranm_ie8team said 4:32PM on 3-23-2009
Hi my name’s Feran and I’m working with the Internet Explorer Outreach Team to provide assistance and help answer questions people might have about Internet Explorer.
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wrabbit,
Microsoft will wait a while before it begins to push IE8 to Windows users who have their computers set to get the latest updates automatically. RC1 users will be the first to be upgraded automatically.
So at this time I would suggest manually downloading IE8: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/download-ie.aspx?ocid=ie8_sm_a
Richard,
You should not have to uninstall IE7 to get IE8, which you can download from the above link.
I hope this helps,
Feran
Internet Explorer Outreach Team
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