Not that half of you will care, but Microsoft’s going to ship Windows 7 in Europe without IE8 bundled. That doesn’t mean Europeans won’t be able to get IE8—OEMs can shove them into their installs if they want, and end users can download IE8 themselves as well. [Ars Technica]
Dean Cain helps us overcome “Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still” (S.H.Y.N.E.S.S) with this commercial for IE8. It doesn’t make up for Lois and Clark, but he is definitely funny in this.
newVideoPlayer("/win8privatemode_gizmodo.flv", 506, 305,""); Microsoft’s latest History of the Internet promotion is a pretty lame, VH1esque mashup of various b-list comedians cracking jokes—until those comedians talk about Internet Explorer 8′s new In Private Mode.
At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don’t sleep at night, browsers were on the first day’s menu. And Safari went down in seconds.
Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8.
IE 8 has been marinating for some time, and press info and betas had provided a solid picture of its features. Now TGDaily has taken a good look at a near-complete version of the browser.
I kinda feel like Steve Ballmer’s biographer lately, but whenever the guy opens his mouth (which is a lot) something interesting always spills out. When talking about why it’s worth still spending tons of money on Internet Explorer when open source browsers are more nimble in responding to changing web standards, Ballmer said that while “there will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself… open source is interesting.” He continued “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.”
I got this super weird IE 8 viral marketing kit from Microsoft in the mail a little while ago. I don’t think the phrase “slicing the web” has ever been used by anybody to refer to browser usage. Anybody. Still, it’s a decent effort (even if it is just for IE 8 beta 2 and not the final release), and I can always use more gauze. Seriously, “slice the web”?
