IE8 coming to WSUS on August 25, 2009

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 will be released via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on August 25, 2009. Here's what IT admins need to know.<BR><BR><a href='http://meincmagazine.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/ie8-coming-to-wsus-on-august-25-2009.ars'>Read the whole story</a>

 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by darkowl:<BR>In the long term, they should ditch the IE rendering engine and just go with e.g. WebKit. There's no reason to develop your own rendering engine these days, as all browsers now aim to display content similarly. The differences are in the UI, the platform optimisations, and other "higher level" things.<BR><BR>Still, IE8 should be a mandatory upgrade for any fools still languishing on IE6, and anyone on IE7 as well for that matter. IE8 actually makes life as a web developer easy, as if your code works in IE8, FF or Safari, chances are it'll now be identical across the three, with only a few little tweaks (usually margin or padding on some elements, and no - I don't advocate using a "reset" stylesheet - yech).<BR><BR>Use whatever you like, but if you're still on IE6 you're a godless heathen.<BR><BR>And whilst I think about it - we've gone from Rendering Engine wars to JavaScript Engine wars. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I wish every business would drop it too, unfortunately that does give a upside for Microsoft to have it's own rendering engine since noting can run those applications written to (even if not intentionally) IE6 but a Windows product.