Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
It’s been over a year since Microsoft started testing Internet Explorer’s latest version.
Microsoft recently released the release candidate version of IE 8. If you were a beta tester of IE 8, you are not going to be surprised much. If you are just learning about Internet Explorer 8, you might want to check out the web site of IE to see what it’s all about.
As I have indicated in my 2009 predictions post, Internet Explorer will not be able grab a lot of attention with this new version.
Installation is still a major pain
I do not get this at all, I can not believe that a software developer like Microsoft is doing this. Installation nearly takes a fifteen (15) minutes. Yes, it does. First, you download the installer and run it. First process removes the current IE version from your system and ask you to restart your system. If you say no, program will not load. Before the restarting is completed, IE installation will prompt you asking to run the actual installer. At this point, nothing else is being loaded(your desktop and etc). Since nothing else is being loaded, I thought that IE will finish the installation and start loading my system without restarting it. But after nearly ten minute installation, it restarted my machine once more and I was able to run Internet Explorer for testing purposes.
Microsoft should really figure out a better way to install its software on their another software.
Features
If you are a IE 7 users, you might like what they have done with the software. They added some of the popular browser features like “In-Private Browsing”. They have also added developer tools where you can edit CSS and scripts within the browser and plenty more. Gears can be used.
Current version of Stumbleupon is compatible with this RC version as well.