And it gets better – apparently the current release candidate is "platform complete" – meaning that this version will be identical to the final release, which is due in the near future.

IE8 looks to remove, or at least diminish, the previous bad press with the browser by being more web standards compliant. The web standards, laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium, lay out how a browser should render a page correctly The long standing acid tests, from The Web Standards Project is used as a benchmark online, which is known to test almost every aspect of the rendering engine. And the results for IE8 are encouraging. When released it should finally be able to pass the Acid 2 test – which is a first for Microsoft.. Of course then there’s the newer Acid 3 test to tackle!

Download the latest version from Microsoft, but remember that technically it is still Beta.

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