Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2

Microsoft Corporation - (Freeware)

Research faster, easier, more intimate and more secure with Internet Explorer, one of the world's most popular Web browser.

Internet Explorer is the world's most popular Web browser. Security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support are Microsoft's priorities for Internet Explorer.

The latest version of the browser includes support for:
- Accelerators - which allow supported web applications to be invoked without explicitly navigating to them.
- WebSlices - which allows portions of page to be subscribed to and monitored from a redesigned Favorites Bar.
- InPrivate privacy features.
- SmartScreen phishing filter.

Title:: Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2
File Size:: 15.9 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 28 Aug 2008
Publisher:: Microsoft Corporation
Homepage:: http://www.microsoft.com
MD5 Checksum:: 9A2B14B0F8219D55D013BABE60459D13

While Beta 1 was for developers, we think that anyone who browses or works on the web will enjoy IE8 Beta 2. Before the team blogs about our Beta 2 in detail, heres an overview of what youll find in IE8.

We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what weve called trustworthy in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).
Everyday Browsing

We looked very hard at how people really browse the web. We looked at a lot of data about how people browse and tried a lot of different designs in front of many kinds of people, not just technologists. As tempting as it is to list here all the changes both big and small in IE8, well take a more holistic approach. Thats how we built the product and how wed like to talk about it.

From our customer research, we saw that the bulk of user activity outside of web pages involved tabs and navigation the act of getting to the site the user wants to get to. We also knew that adding features has an impact only if theyre in the flow of how people actually use the product. Another menu item might matter in a checklist on a blog somewhere, but wont matter to real people browsing. Thats why IE8s New Tab experience is so remarkable: its obvious after you see it: