Are Microsoft taking notes?

[Den]

Is this Microsoft listening at last 

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=103602

Sounds to good to be true  8)

[Rik]

My jury remains out, Den.

[john]

My jury remains out, Den.

Well please put it away again now ! 

[Rik]

 

[esh]

Does it run on XP? I wonder...

I daren't let the Win2k boxes here run on IE6.5, it's just too much of a hazard to the user and to the machine. Opera 9.2 is order of the day here for the most part. Haven't tried this Chrome thing yet... no adblocker from what I hear. Not surprising since I wonder how Google makes its money...

[Rik]

It must do, Esh as there are warnings about installing it before SP3.

[Sebby]

I'm sure IE8 will be the best version yet. I just can't see myself moving from Firefox now, though.

[David]

Well please put it away again now ! 

Brilliant

[john]

Thanks David

I've installed IE8 myself and it generally works fine although it has occaisionally hung with a Java error. However when you kill it, although it closes all open IE8 windows/tabs it does ask if you want them restoring again next time you invoke it. As it's still in beta I have no doubt it will be fixed in the proper version.

[Ann]

I like it.  I never saw any real advantage to tabs in IE7 and had turned them off but am using them in IE8 and liking it.

[Gary]

Thanks David

I've installed IE8 myself and it generally works fine although it has occaisionally hung with a Java error. However when you kill it, although it closes all open IE8 windows/tabs it does ask if you want them restoring again next time you invoke it. As it's still in beta I have no doubt it will be fixed in the proper version.

The java error could be because of issues in the latest java update 7 version 10 the next release should sort that out, also as a beta IE8 will have debugging code, not something I would test without VMware of some kind, removing it or updating makes a mess of the registry