In a study carried out for Microsoft, IE8 RC1 beat six windows based browsers in blocking malware distributing sites. Though the results are being viewed with some degree of jaundice by the industry, the study was carried out by a company with a solid...
What ever your opinion on the rights or wrongs of how IE8 renders websites produced for previous versions, whether it is anti competitive to bundle it with Vista, it would appear that Microsoft is preparing to release it imminently. If you go on their...
An IE 8 blocker toolkit has been released by Microsoft to stop it being installed via automatic update before completing a compatibility test and consequently IE 8 will arrive as an "optional" install. IE 8 was built to support "web standards"...