Service Pack 1 (8.00.7601.17514)
/ February 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-22)
Engine
MSHTML 4.0
Operating system
Windows XP SP2 or later
Windows XP x64 Edition SP2
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008[1]
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.microsoft.com/library/dd566230.aspx
Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is a web browser for Windows. It was released by Microsoft on March 19, 2009, as the eighth version of Internet Explorer and 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]
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]
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