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Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:39 PM

Overview of Platform Improvements in IE8 RC1

This is one of my favorite times in the product cycle. IE8 is platform complete and as we get closer to releasing the final product, more and more web developers and designers will take advantage of the browser’s features to enable scenarios we haven’t
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:21 PM

User Experience Changes since Beta 2

Since the release of Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, we’ve listened, watched and learned a lot about how people use the new features and our focus has been to refine them for RC1 (the Release Candidate). This post will give you an overview of the end user
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:40 PM

IE8 Security Part VII: ClickJacking Defenses

As we planned Internet Explorer 8, our security teams analyzed the common attacks in the wild and the trends that suggest where attackers will be focusing their attention next. Over the course of IE8’s development, we’ve also worked closely with those
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:23 PM

Microsoft submits thousands more CSS 2.1 tests to the W3C

The Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate is the last major IE8 testing milestone. It indicates that we believe that IE8 is implementation complete for CSS 2.1 . We also believe IE8 RC1 has the most complete implementation of the CSS 2.1 specification
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Monday, January 26, 2009 12:04 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available

We're excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . Please download it now and try it
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Monday, January 26, 2009 11:58 AM

Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Hello all, Just like for previous beta releases, I am going to guide you through the upgrade steps for Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (IE8 RC1). Before we begin, let me summarize the major changes you will see when installing IE8 RC1: If you
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Friday, January 23, 2009 3:03 PM

Common Issues in Assessing Browser Performance

I’m Christian Stockwell, a Program Manager on the IE team focused on browser performance. Measuring the overall performance of websites and web browsers is important for users comparing the performance characteristics of competitive browsers, developers
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:12 PM

Yes, we did...

…notice this yesterday while running the Windows 7 Beta: If you open the newly redesigned whitehouse.gov in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta, you’ll notice that the dropdown menus don’t hide correctly when you hover over other menu items. This is
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Monday, January 19, 2009 12:28 PM

January Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for the first Expert Zone chat of 2009 this Thursday, January 22 nd at 10.00 PST/18.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. Thank you to
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Friday, January 16, 2009 12:46 PM

Accessibility: Improved ARIA Support in the IE8 RC

Hi, my name is Tony Ross and I’m one of the Program Managers for Internet Explorer. As JP mentioned in an earlier post , the IE Team has been working to make IE8 the most accessible web browser possible. We have also been working on improving interoperability
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:17 PM

Completing Access Control support for XDomainRequest

Back in October , Sunava described changes that we made to the XDomainRequest (XDR) object in IE8 between the Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases. This object allows your AJAX web pages to request data from sites with a different hostname from the page itself,
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:16 PM

Responding to Change: Updated Getter/Setter Syntax in IE8 RC 1

As a Program Manager, I love to write feature specifications (that’s a job description requirement)! In each spec, PMs carefully weigh the pros and cons of certain design tradeoffs , consider the customer requests, available feedback and telemetry data
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:26 PM

IE8 in Windows 7 Beta

The Windows 7 Beta includes a beta of Internet Explorer 8. I say “a beta” because IE8 in Windows 7 Beta is a pre-release candidate build of IE: it’s IE8 Beta 2 plus end user features that are only available on Windows 7 plus many fixes based on feedback
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Friday, January 09, 2009 12:17 PM

The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition)

As announced in February 2008 , Internet Explorer 8 sends an updated user-agent string when interacting with web servers. Since we last blogged about the User-Agent string, the Internet Explorer team introduced Compatibility View and today, the Windows
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:36 PM

IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today!

We believe IE8 helps make browsing the web faster, easier, safer and more reliable. To help our users be more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE8 via Automatic Update (AU) and the Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update (MU) sites much like
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