I am really pissed off that IE6 is still in existence because this has created a lot of problems for my development team including myself. We have to spend far more hours than necessary creating stylesheets and testing them on this browser.

I really hope IE6 retires and everytime I learn that the market share for IE6 decrease I treat that as a big win for development team like ours. This is the case with the latest market share reports where IE6 has lost 2.4 percentage points and is considered the biggest loss since December of 2007, yeah that’s good news.
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Microsoft released its first release candidate for the Internet Explorer 8 this Monday. You may have received a notification had you installed IE8 Beta 2 on your PC. Others can download it from the official IE8 Beta page if interested. While this version is not the final release, a release candidate is considered to be a feature-complete version with a potential to be the final release unless any critical bugs are identified.
On Windows XP, the installation needs two reboots – one after uninstalling IE8 Beta 2 and another after installing IE8 RC1. On Windows Vista, a single reboot after the …read more

Various news pieces centred around the recent Internet Explorer security threat and its subsequent patch release.

Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008, and said that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won’t “break” the Web.
IE8 has passed the “Acid2 Browser Test” from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a browser renders a Web site in a certain way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports certain accepted Web standards.
Microsoft posted a video about the browser passing the test on its Channel 9 Web site.