As expected, Microsoft Monday released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to the public. You can grab the download from the Microsoft Download Center: for Vista and Server 2008 32-bit, for Vista and Server 2008 64-bit, for XP 32-bit, for Server 2003 SP2 32-bit, and for Server 2003 SP2 64-bit and XP 64-bit. At time of publishing, the release notes have not yet been updated (but should be soon), though the Technology Overview for Developers is available. Please note that this build is newer than the one in Windows 7 build 7000 and cannot be installed over top of that version of IE8. Testers using Windows 7 will have to wait for a new build of the operating system.
Microsoft already gave testers an RC1 build (8.0.6001.18343) last month and then updated the build number 8.0.6001.18344 that same week, due to an out-of-band security update for the browser. The software giant gave the public IE8 Beta 2 in August 2008 and Beta 1 in March 2008.
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Nice but i dont think alot of people even use windows explorer. Its much slower than those like Mozilla firefox and Google Chrome my opinion. If i could choose the web browser the os comes with it would be Google chrome even though its in beta
No download for seven, how annoying... mmm
I haven't used explorer in years. Every time I do I fumble around looking for options. I actually hate it. Unless mozilla shuts it's doors, I'll never go back to ie.
Where are all the newer win7 betas? I can't believe nothing's leaked since b7000 =(
no it dosn't work (installing vista version). just tried it, it said OS not supported
I think this article: BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft releases IE 8 browser is poorly written as no where does it mention that it is in fact just the RC1 release and not a full release.
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