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We’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out!
You’ll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. In addition to English, IE8 Beta 2 is available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Additional languages will be available soon.
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, here’s an overview of what you’ll 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 we’ve 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).
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, we’ll take a more holistic approach. That’s how we built the product and how we’d 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 they’re “in the flow” of how people actually use the product. Another menu item might matter in a checklist on a blog somewhere, but won’t matter to real people browsing. That’s why IE8’s New Tab experience is so remarkable: it’s obvious – after you see it:
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anyone else not seeing the Compatibility View Button? I'm using Windows XP SP3.
I'm not seeing it either .. kinda strange...
I can see the compatibility view button. It should be in the address bar, if not, click on Tools and you should see it in the list.
Vista Home Premium SP1
Dutch IT website Tweakers.net mentioned the button in their feature on this beta.. They say the button only shows if problems are detected or rendering takes too long.
I've seen it a couple of time now .. Ebay search box required me to use the compat mode... Thankfully we can switch without restarting :)
it is right next to the refresh button in the address window
nice beta, a real beta, the damn thing even crashes on the webmail pages from exchange. :-)
I see it also, I'm on XP SP3. It's shown up for a few sites, but I haven't had to use it much. Even blink shows it actually. But the site looks fine to me so I haven't turned it on yet.
My biggest complaint with IE8 B2 is that when I tried to use the "Search Provider" for bink.nu to search for past posts, it gave an error "There was a problem with the search provider's information."
30 minutes was all it took. After half of my sidebar gadgets crashed, including a couple of Microsofts own gadgets, I didn't bother waiting to see what else it broke. I will admit Microsoft does have a good gadget error handler.
I really don't know what it is.. but Microsoft has been falling flat on it's face recently.
Their side shows for pulling the wool over everyone's eyes trying to get them to like Vista... IE 8 beta's crashing - or broken compatibility promises.. is really starting to get at the very core of what's going to keep this company alive.
Computers do not need Windows.. nor do they need IE 8 to be productive in society. Unless MS figures out just what the hell is going on behind the doors of those writing the code, the next couple of years isn't going to be pretty... and the masses aren't going to care about "new" features in Windows 7 if Vista and IE 8 remain where they are.
Huge corporations aren't even bothering with Vista... much less going to allow their XP systems to run IE 8. Hell... ours, won't go past XP with IE 6. And this is from a company who sells MS's products!!! That's saying something right there.
My experiences with MS software is simple. If it works, I'll use it. If not... in the trash it goes.