Microsoft Demos, Releases First Beta of Internet Explorer 8

I was expecting this, because I knew that Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer would be speaking about - and demonstrating - IE8 at MIX on Wednesday. Microsoft has released the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8 to the public, with a warning that this first release is intended for developers.

You can download the beta here. As I wrote earlier, IE8 will default to a standards-compliant mode. Thus, as Microsoft indicated earlier, you have to set it into an IE7 emulation mode if you want that behavior.