#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED INSTALL#
#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED UPDATE#
#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED SOFTWARE#
#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED PC#
#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED WINDOWS 7#

Language support (localization) was not complete on release. * ^ Initially, Internet Explorer supported 25 languages additional languages, for a total of 63 were released by June 2009, but not all languages are available on all Windows versions Language support Windows XP SP2 and later, Windows XP 圆4 Edition SP2 / Release history Internet Explorer 8 release history On May 27, 2010, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Bing and MSN. There have been no announcements of planned support.

#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED INSTALL#

On January 5, 2009, a tool was provided by Microsoft to block the automatic install of Internet Explorer 8 via Windows Update.Īs of May 20, 2009, Windows XPe (Embedded) was not a supported platform for Internet Explorer 8. The first non-beta version was released on March 19, 2009. By August 2008, the new feature called InPrivate had taken the spotlight. Two name changes included Activities to Accelerators, and the IE7 Phishing filter renamed Safety Filter in the first Beta to SmartScreen, both accompanied by incremental technical changes as well.

#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED PC#

PC World noted various Beta 2 features such as InPrivate mode, tab isolation and color-coding, and improved standards and compatibility compared to Internet Explorer 7. On August 27, 2008, Microsoft made IE8 Beta 2 generally available. The readiness toolkit was promoted as something 'developers can exploit to make Internet Explorer 8 'light up'.' Major press focused on a controversy about Version Targeting, and two new features then called WebSlice and Activities. Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) added new sections detailing new IE8 technology.

#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED SOFTWARE#

The release launched with a Windows Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit website promoting IE8 white papers, related software tools, and new features in addition to download links to the Beta.

In February 2008, Microsoft sent out private invitations for IE8 Beta 1, and on March 5, 2008, released Beta 1 to the general public, although with a focus on web developers. IE8 development started in or before March 2006.

#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED UPDATE#

On April 9, 2019, Microsoft released the final IE8 update for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, the last supported version of Windows based on Windows XP, marking the end of IE8 support on all platforms. For versions of Windows in which IE8 was the final version of Internet Explorer available, support ended alongside the end of support for that version of Windows. Support for IE8 on most supported Windows versions ended on January 12, 2016, when Microsoft began requiring customers to use the latest version of Internet Explorer available for each Windows version. Support for Internet Explorer 8 is bound to the lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on as it is considered an OS component, thus it is unsupported on Windows XP due to the end of extended support on April 8, 2014. It is the last version of Internet Explorer to support Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional 圆4 Edition, the 圆4 versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista before SP2, and Windows Server 2008 before SP2 as the following version, Internet Explorer 9, will only support on Windows Vista SP2 or later and Windows Server 2008 SP2 or later. Internet Explorer 8 requires Windows XP SP2-3, Windows XP Professional 圆4 Edition SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, or Windows Vista at the minimum. According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support were its priorities for IE8. Additionally, it introduced a compatibility mode to optionally emulate older versions' rendering behaviour, and colour-coded tab groups where links opened in new tabs share the colour of which they originated from. Internet Explorer 8 is the first version of IE to pass the Acid2 test, and the last of the major browsers to do so (In the later Acid3 Test, it only scores 24/100.).

#WHEN WAS INTERNET EXPLORER 8 RELEASED WINDOWS 7#

It was the default browser in Windows 7 (later default was Internet Explorer 11) and Windows Server 2008 R2 and can replace previous versions of Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 but unlike version 7, this version does not support Windows Server 2003 SP1 or an earlier version. It was released by Microsoft on March 19, 2009, as the eighth version of Internet Explorer and the successor to Internet Explorer 7. Windows Internet Explorer 8 ( IE8) is a web browser for Windows.

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