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March 20, 2009

Internet Explorer 8 is now available

I thought about saying that it was RTM but that’s a typical Microsoft abbreviation. I thought about saying “has been released” but then there is “is released”. Anyway, aside from the English phrasing, after a gestation period, Internet Explorer is now with us. Or not.

An 11am 20th March 2009 (Melbourne Time) visit to the official website followed by a re-direction to the Australian portal shows that the download is reluctant to come down. It’s early days yet. IE8 will descend in volume soon enough. For those who are officially not ready and want to refuse it’s automatic deployment, there is the Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit. For those who want to work on administering it, there is the Group Policy Settings Reference and the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8. For those who want to test their webpages with older IE versions side by side with IE8, try Xenocode’s virtualised browsers.

Posted by Anandasim at March 20, 2009 12:09 PM

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