Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 8 Browser

Microsoft will release its Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) browser for download on March 19. Microsoft said security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L (AJAX) support are key priorities for Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft will release its Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) browser for download on March 19.
Microsoft officials at the company's MIX09 conference here, said IE 8 would become available for download from the Internet Explorer 8 web site at 9 a.m. pacific time on March 19. The timing of the release is to coincide with a keynote to be delivered by Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft, who will formally announce the technology's release to the web.