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Internet Explorer 8 coming today
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.
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Subscribe to commentswrabbitMar 19th 2009 9:38AM
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.
tjdouglasMar 19th 2009 9:51AM
If you don't want ie8 download this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en
RichardMar 19th 2009 10:33AM
Do we need to uninstall IE7 before installing IE8?
MadMikeMar 19th 2009 12:31PM
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.
RyanMar 19th 2009 4:08PM
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.
feranm_ie8teamMar 23rd 2009 4:32PM
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