IE8 in private beta


	IE8 in private beta

rickmahn

2-24-2008 8:12 PM

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internet explorer, microsoft, beta, software

rickmahn says:

It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft comes up with to compete with Firefox in this generation of the browser. Of course this time around we have Apple's Safari and the Opera browser to compare with too.

I'm sure IE8 doesn't look very different, rather, it'll be the feature set that will need to be spiffed up, similar to Firefox 3...

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