We’re sorry, but you won’t be able to download Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 Beta at this time.

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Windows 7 Beta already includes a pre-release candidate version of Internet Explorer 8 that is optimized for that release. Windows 7 enables unique features and functionality in Internet Explorer 8 including Windows Touch and Jump Lists which require additional product tests to ensure we are providing the best Windows experience for our customers. We will continue to update the version of Internet Explorer 8 running on Windows 7 as the development cycles of Windows 7 progress and plan to include the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in the release candidate version of Windows 7 later this year. For the latest information on Windows 7, visit the Windows 7 site.

Mr GRiM said:

Hi Sarastro and welcome to the Forums, I had already assumed that was the case anyway but it's good to clear it up for all that would have tried, just out of interest are you on the build team or are you just relaying information?

No, not on the build team, thought I just copy this from the microsoft site to warn the all to eager (and rightly so) sevenforums users that they can't use the IE8 final on their windows 7 OS.

If your using 7048 or 7057 builds then you already have the final release of IE8.

I'm presently downloading now for Vista, XP, and the 7000 build without any bog down seen at their servers. Being small not like a beta the volume of people drops off rapidly.

you wont be able to install it for win7 (see comments above).