Formal version of IE 8 will be listed in November
This Internet news is provided from the West Technology Limited
August 21 news, foreign media reports, according to informed sources, Microsoft will release IE 8 Beta 2 next Thursday and the final version will be launched in November.
The source said that Microsoft will be August 28 release IE 8 Beta 2, and the final version will be launched in November. In the forthcoming listing of the Beta 2 version, Microsoft will add some functions, such as "privacy mode".
At present, IE 8 is now in Beta 1 stage, mainly for staff development, but Beta 2 will be open to all users. Beta 1 of the current users also can use the "automatic update" to upgrade to Beta 2.
In addition, IE 8 only supports Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating system four.
Because the updating rate of IE browser was low, Microsoft has been severely criticized by the industry. Therefore, Microsoft has previously said that they will upgrade IE browser every year from IE8.
