The Beta of IE8 has been out since March, but that first release was geared towards developers and nerds. From what I’ve gleaned on the Interwebs and our own little CG chat room, it’s been pretty buggy and not very many geeks are happy with it and looking at alternative methods for their browsing needs. Some believe the brand is too tainted and that the final release of IE8 will still be a failure regardless of whether or not it’s improved over the Beta. In the 12 years or so that I was a Windows user, I mainly used Firefox because it was, well, better. Not to diss on IE since I used it for a good chunk of those 12+ years, but as soon as Firefox was stable enough, I switched and haven’t looked back.
Today, Microsoft announced that Beta 2 will be released to the masses in August. This release will be close to what the final version will be and as with any Beta release, it will contain bugs.
Have you been using IE8? Will you switch in August?
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Is it April or August?
Bloops. It’s August.
Somehow the bozos who set up Windows Update made it waaaay too easy to download IE 8 beta. My 74 year old mother, who has trouble enough working her PC, somehow got it installed. Now when I try to help her with something, I can’t take it step by step with her because I’m *not* putting any MS beta crapola on my PC (even for Dear Old Mom).
ugh….i’ve still got too many users that are still on IE6 with every possible third-party toolbar created. i feel for the webmasters who must comply with whatever “standards” MS chooses to use/not use.
It’s quite funny how an open source company like Mozilla can make a browser which is so much better than Microsoft’s IE. IE7 is painstakingly slow, and takes up a lot of resources. FF3 FLIES. how come Microsoft is taking so long to make another iteration of a browser which is so slow? Firefox 3 will be out in June. Microsoft really has to get it’s act together
If only Microsoft didn’t bundle IE with windows and essentially 50% of all users are too lazy or don’t care enough to change it. What a great world it would be if IE just disappeared, then again I hate IE. And the web development tools on FF are awesome.
that being said IE8 is much better than IE7. it’s also supposed to be perfectly w3c standards-compliant, which is certainly a good thing, although that statement probably doesn’t cover the beta1.
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