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IE8 RC Coming 1st Quarter 2009

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The IE blog is much quieter for IE8 than it was during the development of IE7 but yesterday they provided an update timeline for IE8.

There will be one more public update,  a Release Candidate, in the first quarter of 2009 which will be code complete.  They will follow that up with the final release after some unspecified amount time to allow them time to work out bugs. I would say it is likely we would see it ship by late Summer.

What does this mean?  Get your feedback in now if you have any that you think is important. Once they drop RC the only thing that will get in are critical bug fixes.

If you haven't looked at IE8 yet grab beta 2 and take a tour of the IE8 site.

Posted Nov 20 2008, 08:53 AM by Josh Phillips

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Comments

Bink wrote re: IE8 RC Coming 1st Quarter 2009
on 11-20-2008 9:27 AM

My god this is taking a very long time… almost three years for a browser update so I am really looking forward to significant further penetration from alternative browsers (it took them five years to go from 6 to 7).  If Microsoft continues to fail to “release early and release often,” the game will be over for them before they know it.

JoeM wrote re: IE8 RC Coming 1st Quarter 2009
on 11-20-2008 1:13 PM

It will be 2 years at the end of this month, not three years.

Bink wrote re: IE8 RC Coming 1st Quarter 2009
on 11-20-2008 1:27 PM

If the thing doesn’t go gold till the end of summer 2009, that’ll be almost three years.

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