Microsoft has inflicted Internet Explorer 8 Beta for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition, Window XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition, and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition. Mac users are unaffected.
Features include:
– Activities: contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
– WebSlices: a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
– Favorites Bar: In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
– Automatic Crash Recovery: The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.
– Improved Phishing Filter: Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft promises a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”
More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Windows sufferer? Get a Mac. In the meantime, we recommend Apple’s Safari 3, the fastest web browser on any platform, now for Windows. More info and download link here.
Apple’s Safari Web browser for Windows:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYcmPN-jvE
@ MDN
Best headline EVER.
Safari (on Mac) doesn’t work with MacDailyNews or Hotmail – probably because Telstra won’t install a modern ADSL2+ service here in Byron Bay, so ADSL is sloooooooooow. Slow response times from some of the ad services on MDN mean that Safari times out, and Hotmail on Safari goes into an authentication loop most o the time,. so I have Firefox for those and I use Safari otherwise. On Windows I use IE – who cares what version, they are all awful.
@ Former Mac User
Great piece of satire, Dude. Gave me a good morning chuckle…
Internet Explorer 8 will take us one step closer to a two-tiered system. There will be the Microsoft proprietary internet, for those who buy computers, software, and peripherals at Wally World, and the real internet for The Rest of Us. Or, more to the point, there will be two kinds of computers:
PCs – personal computers – computers that look an operate like 21st century technology should, and
PLCs – payday loan computers – that look like they were designed by the Dukes of Hazzard and operate sporadically and unpredictably. Oddly, most PLCs will run Windows or Linux as their primary operating system.
I really don’t know why people are having such a hard time with the Windows version of safari they must like screwing up their computer a lot cause it works perfectly fine on my install of windows and several others I have put it on. Whatever the reason I’m having no problems with speed of it at all.
Firefox is better than IE is better than safari
#1 concern with safari -> bookmark system is absolutely hopeless. It is REALLY un-Apple-like (guess that makes it an orange or maybe that should be a LEMON). Intuitiveness is the order of the day, well supposed to be…by safari’s bookmark system = big pile of crap. You’d think microsh*t had designed it.
@rip-ragged
linux is free bonehead…
@rip-ragged
and a mac isn’t regarded as a PC (despite the same hardware) if that is the point you’re trying to make about PC’s running 21st century technology. You mean perhaps:
Macs and linux on PC’s are right thing
PDLC = microshi*t windoze machines
actually, on reflection, does a mac running windoze (I know, I know, the heresy of the notion) then become a PC while it is in that (horrendous) state or is its mac-ness for always? (thus, by extension, can said inherent mac-ness then legitimize windoze?…aaaah!)
therefore: my apologies rip-ragged for calling you a bonehead.