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images/news/ie.jpgMicrosoft plans to make its Internet Explorer 8 browser available on Thursday, along with a company-commissioned report claiming IE8 is more secure against malware than rival browsers from Mozilla and Google. Users will be able to download IE8 in 25 languages at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday from Microsoft's IE Web site and its online download center. Microsoft has been preparing users for IE8 for a good year now, stressing performance improvements, better support for Internet technology standards, the addition of new features to help people keep track of most visited sites and favorite sources of information, and of course, security, as highlights of the new browser.

According to the report Microsoft released Thursday, based on research conducted by NSS Labs, IE8's Release Candidate 1 was 69 percent effective at catching malware before it did damage to a user's system. Mozilla Firefox 3.07 came in second with a 30 percent effectiveness rate, with Apple Safari's 3 in third place with a 24-percent rate and Google's Chrome 1.0.154 in fourth place with 16 percent effectiveness rate.

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[talker]

I will try IE 8 simply because it is there. I have become a FF user (v 3.0.7). I have used MSN as my homepage for 10+ years so one would think that it would render in IE when nothing else would work. However, there are parts of my personalized homepage that will not appear in IE but will in FF. Seems to me another "OOPS" from Microsoft. There really seems to be a degrading of the details from Redmond over the last few (8 or so) years. It won't take long to test IE 8. I will simply open my personalized MSN homepage to see if it will all appear. FF is far from ideal in that I am using it on Server '08 x64 and some of the plugins (like WMP) won't work in the Server environment but overall FF is better than IE 7.

[talker]

Well, I did as I said, I installed and tried IE 8. The first thing it told me was my Weather.com tool bar was incompatible with IE 8. It also reset all of the security settings under Internet Options to default and since I am using Server '08, that pretty well excluded much of a surfing experience. I reset everything to allow normal surfing. Overall, IE 8 was fast but comes the problem with compatibility at various sites. One being weather.com that could only be viewed in text form even when switched to compatibility mode. Time.gov had to be added to the Trusted Site section in order to view the Java clock. In IE 7 and FF, this was not necessary. There are always problems with anything new and perhaps in time IE 8 will gain some viability. At this point, I have uninstalled IE 8 and returned to IE 7 as my version of Internet Explorer and FF as my default browser. Now, even in IE 7, the weather.com tool bar is having problems. Perhaps this will work out in the long run.

Oh well, I said I would try IE 8 simply because it is there. I did and saw that the river that once flowed from Redmond in the form of innovation has become a small stream and to some measure is pretty polluted.

[Christopholofigus]

I've been using IE8beta for a while on my Windows 7 lappy. Meh, I'm still a FF fan.