Internet Explorer 8
Web browser for Windows released in 2009 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the eighth and, by now, discontinued version of the Internet Explorer web browser for Windows. It was released by Microsoft on March 19, 2009, as the successor to Internet Explorer 7. It was the original, default browser in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, before Internet Explorer 11 was introduced.[3]
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Initial release | March 19, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-03-19) |
Stable release | Service Pack 1 (8.00.7601.17514)
/ February 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-22) |
Engine | MSHTML 4.0 |
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Platform | c.f. § system requirements |
Included with | Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2[2] |
Predecessor | Internet Explorer 7 (2006) |
Successor | Internet Explorer 9 (2011) |
Type | Web browser Aggregator FTP client |
License | Proprietary, requires Windows license |
Website | technet |
Internet Explorer 8 is the first version of IE to pass the Acid2 test, the last of the major browsers to do so. (In the later Acid3 Test, it only scores 24/100.) It is also the last version of Internet Explorer to support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, as well as Itanium-based processors. Additionally, it introduced a Compatibility View 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.[4] According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support were its priorities for IE8.[5][6]