Microsoft posts 21 more versions of IE8
Microsoft yesterday released 21 additional versions of its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2, including editions in Czech, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and other languages.
The company, however, declined to set a date for when it will automatically update Windows Vista systems that have a copy of IE8 Beta 1 already installed. According to Microsoft, the 21 new, fully-localized versions can be downloaded immediately. When it launched IE8 Beta 2 late last month, Microsoft shipped the browser only in English, Simplified Chinese, German and Japanese.
Users running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 must install the same language version of IE8 as the base language of the operating system, said Vishwac Sena Kannan, an international program manager, in a post to the official IE blog Tuesday. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 users can ignore those constraints.
