Microsoft Corp. launches Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) web browser today (03/19/2009). This application can be downloaded from the Microsoft site since 09.00 o'clock Pacific time.
This new version of the most widely-used browser in the world is freely available for those using licensed Microsoft Operating System. IE8 was undergoing testing prior to public for beta version for a year.
Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, says IE8 will run with Windows Vista, the latest Microsoft Operating System , Windows XP, which is also still widely used.
As published by Reuters, based on the latest survey by an information technology consultant Janco Associates Inc., the Internet Explorer has the market share 72.2 percent, far above Firefox from Mozilla Foundation with 17.2 percent. While Chrome from Google Inc. has the market 2.8 percent, and Safari owned by Apple is less than 1 percent.
Microsoft recently is hit by antimonopoli policies in the United States and Europe due to bundling the browser with the operating system.
Last month, Google joined with Mozilla and Opera protested against Microsoft dominance in the browser market. In January, European submitted formal charges against Microsoft on the bundle between Windows and Internet Explorer, which is used in 95 percent of personal computers.
IE 8 accommodates the expectation of the developers with the presence of Developer Tools, which can be tailored to Visual Studio 2008. Software developers will take more benefit of this feature when creating and debugging a web application. Other feature that attracts is a good and interesting Tab Grouping
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