Internet Explorer 8: a review
The latest update to Microsoft's browser was released yesterday, with features like Accelerators and web slices added to improve on the previous version.
I currently use Firefox over Internet Explorer for various reasons, including the fact that it rarely crashes, as well the useful add-ons, so should Mozilla be worried about its users switching to IE8?
The browser wars continue
What browser do you use? If you're the average internet user, you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It came bundled with your PC and you never found a compelling enough reason to switch.
But despite Microsoft's marketshare, we shouldn't let the numbers fool us: there's still a battle being waged in the browser market. And it's no surprise why: there's a lot of value in owning the application people use to access the internet with.
Microsoft IE8 release candidate now available
As Microsoft pushes forward on the path towards Windows 7, the successor OS to a very disappointing Windows Vista, the Redmond-based software company has made an Internet Explorer 8 release candidate available for download.
IE8 will come bundled with Windows 7 and represents Microsoft's effort to maintain IE's always-vulnerable but still-dominant hold on the browser market.
