internet explorer 8 has been released.

now, i really hope nobody who reads this actu­ally uses internet explorer, but if you’re an update junkie…

appar­ently, this is sup­posed to be a pretty “revolu­tionary” new design that makes a lot of pro­gress, espe­cially in the standards-​compliance/​security depart­ments… and it’s also sup­posed to be very fast — they focussed a lot on making it as fast, if not faster than everyone’s favourite: firefox. i don’t see it being much faster than google chrome though… that thing is a speed demon (mostly because it doesn’t have many fea­tures or extensibility).

direct down­load links for internet explorer 8 (and no, you don’t need to pass WGA for the pir­ates out there):

Win­dows XP 32-​bit (16.1 MB)

Win­dows XP 64-​bit (32.3 MB)

Win­dows Server 2003 32-​bit (16.0 MB)

Win­dows Server 2003 64-​bit (32.3 MB)

Win­dows Vista 32-​bit (13.2 MB)

Win­dows Vista 64-​bit (24.3 MB)

Win­dows Server 2008 32-​bit (13.2 MB)

Win­dows Server 2008 64-​bit (24.3 MB)