Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:13 PM

Internet Explorer Team Blog

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available ( Internet Explorer8Beta2现在提供 )

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).

Everyday Browsing

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:

Overview

Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using, helping you get everything you want from the web faster, easier, more privately and securely than ever before.

- Faster Internet Explorer 8 is more responsive with new pages and tabs, opening up fast and reliably. You can now get to the information you care about most, in fewer steps; one click access to your webmail, favorite news sites or other online services.
- Easier Reduce the steps to accomplish many common tasks, and automate your access to real time information updates. You can keep track of your favorite sports team, news, weather with a single click.
- More Private Helps protect your privacy and confidential information where ever you go on the web.
- More Secure Helps protect and stop malicious software from reaching your PC, and makes it easier to detect when a website is an imposter.

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This post has been edited by easyzuddin: Sep 8 2008, 05:34 AM

I'm trying now. Thanks for the updates.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Brow...xplorer-8.shtml

lowyatnet forum looks cacat with ie 8 beta 2 when scrolling that time

use the "compatibility view" then the "cacat" will go away...lol

not worth the upgrade just yet... my Mcafee went bonkers after installing IE8 beta 2.

as for the beta testers it's worth after a while before the final release.

nice.downloading right now....

does it eat alot of resources?

very slow loo 2 opened it..
it doesnt have password bank ya?

Before I use IE8 (not this version) can't play youtube!

not the right time to upgrade.
so many problem with this IE8 beta 2.
the scrolling very not smooth

just wait for the real IE8 soon..
I'm prefer Firefox than IE..

Yeah, I can see that. The scrolling was not as smooth as Firefox or Opera browser.

Improving well enough. But I can't understand why the address bar so empty. Much better than Beta 1 as if I wanted to use classic rendering, I had to restart IE. Now, its on-the-fly.

my ie8 beta crash with i right click on the image.
and i saw others people also having others problem...

I can feel that the browser is faster than FF.

I also like the fact that it can restore previous session which crashed. Something like FF. Darn. FF3 is going to have some stiff competition.

yes dude.. i also agree what you say...easy to use...

waiting for final relesea

crashes like every 10 websites or if alot of tabs
but faster than IE7