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Internet Explorer 8, which Microsoft has put into beta testing since more than a year now, has finally released a few minutes ago!

Microsoft has made sure everything goes on well, and has come out with the fastest Internet Explorer ever. Lots of performance improvements and security updates have been made. I’d recommend everyone to give it a try once!

Features Overview:

• Faster Internet Explorer 8 is more responsive with new pages and tabs, opening up fast and reliably. You can now get to the information you care about most, in fewer steps; one click access to your webmail, favorite news sites or other online services.
• Easier Reduce the steps to accomplish many common tasks, and automate your access to real time information updates. You can keep track of your favorite sports team, news, weather with a single click.
• More Private Helps protect your privacy and confidential information where ever you go on the web.
• More Secure Helps protect and stop malicious software from reaching your PC, and makes it easier to detect when a website is an imposter.

Or you can check out the IE8 features review done by us.

After using the beta and RC releases, I’m impressed how Microsoft has worked hard to put IE back into the browser-war! IE8 is available for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003 and 2008. I don’t see any IE8 links for Windows 7. Looks like, Microsoft has something else in mind for the Windows 7 users.

Download Internet Explorer 8

You can download Internet Explorer from the download page link given below.

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

Windows 7 is still in its beta

phase, and an RC release is just round the corner, but the earlier milestones versions already proved how faster Windows 7 really is than Vista and XP.

Last week, when Wndows 7 build 7048 got leaked, testers found out that they can disable Internet Explorer 8 in Windows. Similarly, you can disable more applications now.

This feature is also available in Windows Vista , but was limited to a small number of programs that could be disabled. Thanks to all the user feedback, Microsoft has added the following applications in the list that you can disable on the fly!

• Windows Media Player
• Windows Media Center
• Windows DVD Maker
• Internet Explorer 8
• Windows Search
• Handwriting Recognition (through the Tablet PC Components option)
• Windows Gadget Platform
  

• Fax and Scan
• XPS Viewer and Services (including the Virtual Print Driver)

Windows 7 fits in 8 GB disk space, but you can reduce it more by removing all the unwanted applications, thus increasing the overall OS speed.