As some of you may know, Microsoft have released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 to the public. I downloaded it the other day and gave it a bit of a test run, as this a primarily a developer release for web developers to ensure that their sites will work. As a primary browser for every days tasks, I’d advise you to stay away from it. There are a lot of sites that will break. I’m guessing the main cause of this is that IE8 is a standards compliant browser (finally!!), and that a lot of that hacks that are used to get sites to look right in previous version of IE are causing these issues.
I’ve since removed IE8b1 from my computer as it was conflicting with Outlook Today in Outlook 2007. All my calendar entries and task links had a permanent underline. This was quite annoying, and upon removing IE8b1, it’s all fine again. Hopefully this fix this in future versions, but for now, I’ll be sticking with IE7 via IE Tab in Firefox.
