If you missed the funny Internet Explorer 8 video at MIX, you can watch it again here…together with a funny collection of…well, you will see :-)

IE8 is back! As we announced last week at MIX, Internet Explorer 8 RTW has been released. You can download it for Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/ie

If you missed the Lap Around IE8 session at MIX 09, you can watch it here:

As an high level summary of the session, we went through some of the new features of Internet Explorer 8:

• IE8 is CSS 2.1 fully standards compliant and include features from CSS 3 and HTML 5 as well. This is a huge improvement over previous versions (and, as you can see in the session, we are succeed more CSS 2.1 tests than any other browser) and allows website to be more interoperable across different browsers. You can see the 7201 test cases we contributed to the W3C Community here.
• IE8 has compatibility built-in features that allows you to run website designed for older browsers without compatibility issues, using the X-UA-Compatible meta tag.
• IE8 is fast, is really fast. Check out the performance video to see with your eyes how IE8 compares to Firefox or Chrome. Or test IE8 on your machine :-)
• IE8 include new user features, such as Web Slices, Accelerator and Visual Search that allow a better and faster navigation and experience over the web.
• I will share soon on this blog the source code for the MSN Video Accelerator, the Twitter Web Slice, the Hulu Visual Search and many other…
• IE8 include Developer Tools in-the-box, that allows you to debug, test, profile the CSS, HTML and JS code in any website.
• IE8 is the most secure browser available today, with 18 new security features that prevents Malware, Click Jacking, …

Still at MIX, the IE team delivered other great sessions about Javascript Performance, Security, User Experience…check them out here:

I’m really excited for this release. I’m looking forward to receiving your feedbacks!

Thanks,
Giorgio

This year I have the pleasure to present the A Lap Around Internet Explorer 8 session at MIX.

In this session, you’ll hear the inside story behind the development of Internet Explorer 8. We’ll show you how to develop innovative user experiences with Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search. You’ll discover nearly twenty new security enhancements that make browsing safer than ever, and you’ll find out about performance improvements that will help you build faster AJAX applications. Finally, we’ll show you why we think Internet Explorer 8 is one of the most standards-compliant web browsers on the market.

Note: this is a session for devigners* from a devigner. I WILL use Visual Studio during the presentation. :)

* Devigner = Developer + Designer

See you in Delfino 4103, 10:30, Thursday March 19.

Check out the agenda of the other IE sessions and parties!

The MIX website has been IE’fyed! :) If you go to http://2009.visitmix.com/ (using Internet Explorer 8 of course ;), you will notice two new user features:

1) You can subscribe to the news from MIX and see at any time the news, the tweets going on around MIX09 and a video feed. All inside a Silverlight Web Slice!

2) You can search sessions and speakers through the integrated Internet Explorer 8 MIX Visual Search Provider.

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