Internet Explorer: Eight Times a Charm

Thanks to Microsoft, I feel 10 years younger. Could this be 1998? It sure feels that way.

Microsoft is innovating around the Web browser again. I haven't witnessed this kind of focus, execution or communication since 1996-1998, when Microsoft waged the browser war against Netscape. And won.

But there is something different from my 1998 feeling, and that's a good thing. A decade ago, Microsoft tussled with the U.S. government over IE being bundled into Windows 98. A nasty Microsoft didn't play so nice with third parties and tried to dominate the browser market for competitive gain. In 2008, there's surprising—as in really shocking—different approach. L33tdawg: If you haven't already heard, Vishal Kumar from Microsoft will be down at next month's HITBSecConf to present a paper on IE8 titled Internet Explorer 8 - Trustworthy Engineering and Browsing. Attendees will also be able to get their hands on the latest build of IE 8 :)