News (26)

  • Microsoft IE8 released

    Microsoft has released Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 for download this morning.

  • Microsoft shows off IE8, Silverlight 2 to developers

    Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, and has released a beta for developers.

  • Microsoft hints at general plan for IE8

    Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the software giant.

  • IE8 to arrive on 20 March

    Microsoft Taiwan representatives have reportedly revealed that the launch date for version 8 of Internet Explorer: 20 March.

  • Users report IE8 Beta 2 issues

    One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, users have started to report issues with its installation and sites and services that are incompatible.

Blogs (6)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    IE8 marketing: MS takes the low road

    Microsoft's current Internet Explorer 8 marketing push continues to leave a bad lingering aftertaste.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    IE8 roll-out will finally kill IE6

    Microsoft has announced that from next week, it will begin deploying its Internet Explorer 8 browser to the majority of users via Automatic Update and there was much rejoicing and a feeling of relief.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    IE8 needs Canvas support

    IE may be the quickest browser to load pages, but this is not a 100m dash; seems like someone has forgotten to tell Microsoft that there is another 300m of JavaScript to go until this race is over.

  • Cop it sweet

    Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Browsers' creativity sparked by new tab

    A rash of creativity has overcome browser vendors recently in a completely unexpected place: the content of the new tab page.

Features and Case Studies (1)

  • Why CIOs aren't nuts for Chrome

    Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.

Videos (4)

  • Internet Explorer 8

    Internet Explorer 8 takes some long-needed strides to bring it up to speed with its competitors. It's more secure, with tab sandboxing and more aggressive malicious site warnings, and introduces some slick new features like Accelerators and Web slices. Even with better support for web standards, it's far from perfect.

  • Looking forward to IE8

    Michael Kordahi talks about IE8 and the new features it contains.

  • Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.66GHz)

    A few other all-in-ones make this 20-inch iMac look expensive on a dollars-per-screen-inch basis, but none are as attractive or as capable juggling multiple programs.

  • Supermarket Sweep -- Club Builder

    Microsoft wants Yahoo, Nokia buys Trolltech -- it's a tech supermarket sweep! This week on Club Builder we also look at IE8's new standards mode and have some fun with Linus Torvalds.

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