My experience with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)
My experience with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) so far is quite nice. IE8 seems like its so much faster than its predecessor, everything seem to load/open faster. It seems like its not consuming that much memory, has a feeling of more security being put in place, and I like this tab color thing where tabs will have the same color if they were open from the same link or something, its cool. So so far I am quite happy with my experience. I did install it on few computers, vista 64bit, vista 32bit, and XP 32bit, various memory and CPU configurations. Installation time is not that bad but you need to restart your computer after you are done with the installation.
You can find out more from MS press release:
news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2009/0004991142&EDATE=
And you can download IE8 at the following URL:
www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Glad they got the update. Now if they found a way to get people to upgrade. As a web developer there are lots of things “under-the-hood” of IE8 that make for a better web experience. I would love to take advantage of those in my code, but I will not waste my time if 70% are still using IE6!
Eventually everyone will upgrade. Cool about this wordpress is that it can generate statistics, also Google analytics can collect great statistics and in those you can see exactly how many people are using what and so on, pretty handy tools