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Exploring Internet Explorer 8 Beta : The first cuts

Exploring Internet Explorer 8 Beta : The first cuts

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Microsoft surprised a number of observers when it released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 on Wednesday afternoon to an unsuspecting audience, a few weeks after Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, broke out news that IE8 Beta would be available 'soon'. The browser is available for all recent Windows platforms; we installed our copy on Windows XP Professional SP2 32-bit, a single core P4 3GHz workstation with 1GB memory; installation...



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