I installed it last night. I tried to go to my favorites it just crashed.Needless to say I uninstalled it and using IE7 again. Maybe it will be better once the full version is released.

The funny thing is that it won't load my.yahoo webpage. Wow, I didn't expect that. You have the option to emulate IE7 which works fine and I don't see any issues with the emulation "yet". For some reason, which seems to be MS new standard, it runs real slow. I think it should have been releases as an Alpha and not yet a Beta. JMO...

Cant be Exciting when you Copy Competition...

...Thought they where talking about the xBox360!!! ;-D

I actually love IE8. When it crashes the page doesn't even close it just refreshes. What the hell is this guy talking about?

IE8 is a bigger improvement over IE7 tbh and I feel its better than FF. FF 3.0 feels alot better than FF 2.0 as well. Still if a browser uses too much memory then why should I use it?

IE8 Beta 1 does have its problems but it still a beta and hopefully most of the bugs will be fixed as time goes on, also, this beta is more for web devs tbh.

ohh wow... look at this articles! hehe... a complete bashing... what this? the 10th article about IE8 beta? did I say beta?

"Shouldn’t the world’s dominant browser already be super-compatible with the Web?".... mmmm.. geee... I don't know... shouldn't Firefox 1 had everything that Firefox 3 has? shouldn't the PS3 come with rumble out of the box? shouldn't the PS3 allow you to communicate with friensd from day 1 while playing a game? see things can be distorted that way too to make a point...

Lots of people are pissed because microsoft is now trying to become compliant to w3c and are changing direction..

When microsoft got into the browser business the internet was yet to be defined... lots of features were up to each vendor to implement... did you know that many of the features that netscape had are not part of the w3c standard? microsoft was the lead innovator as far as the internet is concern pushing technologies like activeX and DHTML even before the W3C approved DOM... (yeas I know my $h!t... I do this for a living...)...

let me give you a little history:

DHTML vs DOM

early 1990's Microsoft pushed DHTML in order to allow developers to change html element using scripting code... Anti-microsoft people said, "uhhh... we need something to do that.. but not from microsoft..."

So, this made W3C began development of the DOM in the mid-1990s. Although the W3C never produced a specification for DOM 0, it was nonetheless a partially documented model and was included in the specification of HTML 4. By October 1998, the first specification of DOM (DOM 1) was released. DOM 2 was issued in November 2000, with specifics on the style sheet object model and style information manipulation. DOM 3 was released in April 2004 and is the current release of the DOM specification...

DOM became a standard DHTML did not.. but microsoft had to continue supporting DHTML on their browsers...

ohh yeah there is a funny thing here too... browsers like firefox support some stuff that are not part of the W3C DOM like innerHTML or innerHTML..

Here is a list of firefox only css features: http://developer.mozilla.or...

AJAX????

mmm.. how about ajax?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

"Techniques for the asynchronous loading of content on an existing Web page without requiring a full reload date back as far as the IFRAME element type (introduced in Internet Explorer 3 in 1996) "

microsoft was the first to introduce it under a different name.

but once again... anti microsft people said, "mmmm.. we need something like that... but not from microsoft"...

"Microsoft's Remote Scripting (MSRS), introduced in 1998, acted as a more elegant replacement for these techniques, with data being pulled in by a Java applet with which the client side could communicate using JavaScript. This technique worked on both Internet Explorer version 4 and Netscape Navigator version 4 onwards. Microsoft then created the XMLHttpRequest object in Internet Explorer version 5 and first took advantage of these techniques using XMLHttpRequest in Outlook Web Access supplied with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 release"

"The Web development community, first collaborating via the microsoft.public.scripting.rem ote newsgroup and later through blog aggregation, subsequently developed a range of techniques for remote scripting to enable consistent results across different browsers. In 2002 a user-community modification[4] to Microsoft Remote Scripting was made to replace the Java applet with XMLHttpRequest"... which happends to be very similar to microsoft original implementation of ajax....

technically... someone just woke up... copy microsoft technology and called it ajax.... all of the sudden someone says... ohh wow look new technology when many of us have being programming ajax under a different name for over a decade... lol...

DHTML was before DOM... microsoft HTTP Request and IFRAME was before Ajax (as we know it today)...

many of the technologies we see today... like the ability to manipulate HTML element were first introduced on IE today... there was no standards back then so it was up to microsoft to lead and implement it... just because later a group of people revise the technology and come up with a new set of specification making microsoft implementation non-standard does not mean microsoft was wrong... how long does thing take to become standard with the w3c? I mean look at the new HTML... now is that they are going to add image manipulation to it... taking 10 years to add improvements.... companies can't wait for that... and what sucks is that microsoft had to keep a level of compabilities to the technologies they invented...

For example, let's say that you invent a technology... like ajax... 5 years later someone copy your technology and submit it to w3c and it gets approved.... who is not a standard? the original or the copy? well in many (not all) instances that's the case with microsoft.

This is why microsoft now is submitting all their technologies and trying to make them standard.. to prevent this from happening in the future... C#, F# and other technologies are being standardized...

IE becoming w3c standard show microsoft direction and willingness to comply... also their initiative to submit for approval any new technology before someone 10 years later submit it first...

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau