Internet Explorer 8 RC1
Microsoft made the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its popular web browser, available for download midday Monday. This is the last stage for the browser before it's finalized, and few significant changes have been made since its last release. Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 can now be downloaded from Microsoft's website. The free browser is available for users of Windows Vista, Windows Server and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Older Windows versions aren't supported. Also, this version of IE8 will not run on current versions of Windows 7 — either the public beta released Jan. 10 or the pre-beta version handed out to developers last October. The final version, due in a few months, will be the default browser in Windows 7. All users running a supported operating system who have downloaded any of the previous public betas of IE8 will eventually be prompted to update their browsers if they don't want to update manually. This release is billed as a release candidate, meaning it's in the stage between beta and a final release. It's what Microsoft refers to as "platform-complete" — you can expect the final IE8 browser to behave like this one does. Microsoft will be on the lookout for critical issues, however. (For more technical details, see our recent overview of IE8's development.) It also means that you won't see a whole lot of new features in the user interface or the chrome, compared to the beta releases. We spoke with Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for IE, about the changes in RC1, and he told us that the new stuff is "mostly polish at this point." Probably the biggest visual change is in the favorites bar, where users can choose an icon-only view to fit more items into the bar. His team has instead been concentrating on reliability and compatibility. He also noted that early testers have commented on IE8 RC1's improved performance.
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