IE8 Download Launch Just Around the Corner
Microsoft, that global bastion of software bloat, has announced today that the Beta 2 version of it’s ubiquitous browser Internet Explorer (of Internet Exploder as we like to call it!) is now available for download.
IE8 has some new features, some useful and some not so useful, especially if you don’t use the Windows Operating System.
IE8 will ship with a clone of the Mozilla Firefox integrated search bar to search for previously searched for phrases, but unlike the Mozilla offering, these searches are not stored in an integrated database, but in ‘windows desktop search’, so if you are not one of those ‘windblows’ fans, you won’t get full functionality from this one I’m afraid.
IE8 is also offering an enhanced security browsing mode which will automatically scrub search history, cookies and browser cache at the end of a session. Pity they could not integrate a full on proxy mode, could have coaxed hackers out there away from Linux based browsers… maybe!
The new browser from Microsoft apparently carries enhanced security including anti-malware and protection from some cross-site scripting attacks, which are becoming more and more prevalent out there in cyberland.
We wait with baited breath (no sarcasm intended) for the new offering from Microsoft, however as there are still apparently today 25% of Internet users plodding along with IE6, we don’t think that this new browser is going to be taken up with the majority of Internet users any time soon!
