Hi Everybody!
Here’s a quick update from Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM): Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 to the Web “later this year.”
Microsoft has tried its best not to provide a ship target for IE 8 — like most of its Windows client family of products. Company officials did acknowledge last month that a second public beta of IE 8 is due out in August.
Microsoft has been warning Web developers to prep for IE 8, which will be more standards-compliant, to prepare now for IE 8 by adding a new tag to their sites to keep them from breaking when viewed with IE 8.
Hopefully, Microsoft has learned a thing or 2 from Mozilla from its launch of Firefox 3.0. Let’s face it, IE 7 was and is a piece of junk. Nobody wants to get the new IE 8 browser and be forced to endure constant freezing and forced restarts.
